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“That's typically what we do. We've also co-led A's, like we could split an A with another financial investor. Do it also, if it makes sense at that stage to bring in a strategic, you know, it depends on where you are, you know, where your company is, even thou…”

“So both rounds, we didn't bring any investors on the board.”

“And so, when I pulled our numbers, like, we funded eight times more women than industry average.”

“Take something like Square. What it is today wasn't part of the plan when we originally invested. It was a hardware dongle.”

“A year ago, we had zero customers”

“And that's actually a problem with being big. We can't really just try things. We have to license them first, which means we take the cost up front.”

“So the two things we said is we're never going to run our commitments faster than three years. And we want to make sure the vast majority of our companies have fully funded plans.”

“You know, we lost 85% of our volume overnight, and the business was already losing two billion dollars.”

“Guy from sneak we funded him three times before he got his A round done.”

“I think we try to do both. And I, that's the way I think about it. And I think about it explicitly, like this is a heat seeking investment. This is a, Truffle hunting investment.”

“Yeah, I mean, we are thinking, we are looking into, like automating partnership manager negotiations, because suddenly you can scale it up to a million partnerships managers.”

“There's a lot of uncertainty, but we've been more active than we've been since 2010 and 2011.”

“We're not either long or short Google”

“We grew from six million of ARR to 18 the year after, and then from 18 to 50, and 50 to 120, you know, in three years.”

“And obviously, you know, we're very involved with EU Inc., which is this initiative to have one kind of single unified status and a super simple way for companies to expand across Europe. And I think that could be an absolute game changer.”

“As we under have kind of underwritten future rounds of open AI or later rounds of open AI is very much, you know, with the mind of consumer.”

“18 is good. Like, you want like 90%. Anything less than 18, we won't touch.”