{"id":1137,"date":"2022-12-14T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:45:26","slug":"be-humble-about-what-you-know-and-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/be-humble-about-what-you-know-and-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Humble About What You Know (And Don\u2019t Know)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM-1024x531.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM-1024x531.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM-1536x797.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM-320x166.png 320w, https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-4.12.07-PM.png 1994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned a ton from Bill McNabb, the former Chairman and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/vanguard\/\">Vanguard<\/a>, in our work together at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/altruistcorp\/\">Altruist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/justvanilla\/\">Vanilla<\/a> and two stealth-mode startups. Bill helped build today&#8217;s asset management and wealth management industries and saw the incredible power technology could have in shaping the future of both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently had the chance to interview Bill on our Venrock podcast. You can find our discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venrock.com\/podcasts\/be-humble-about-what-you-know-and-dont-know-on-running-through-walls\">here<\/a>. In it, Bill shares important\u00a0leadership lessons including the importance of being humble, having a clear definition of success, and knowing what makes a high-performing team. He reveals significant decisions he made during his time at Vanguard, such as having \u201cno layoffs\u201d during a crisis, and highlights the importance of thinking long-term while still being agile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned a ton from Bill McNabb, the former Chairman and CEO of Vanguard, in our work together at Altruist, Vanilla and two stealth-mode startups. Bill helped build today&#8217;s asset management and wealth management industries and saw the incredible power technology could have in shaping the future of both. I recently had the chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech","category-startup-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickbeim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}