Q semi answers the question I was about to ask. So, because you have a slightly different angle of being less, you know, focused on the purely technical, what, what kind of teams do you like? Uh, at a very practical level, like somebody who wants to come to you and pitch, what, what, what do they, uh, you know, look like as a team in terms of, of core capabilities?
A Sure. So, ironically, because I'm not technical, and I'm more focused on this other stuff, I attract all the super geeks. Um, which is okay for me, because it's complimentary. Um, but, but I'd say I zoom out, and for me, partly because I'm not technical, just partly my nature in being in this business for 30 years, um, I always over index on people. So for me, I'm looking for Courage. Character. Conviction. Somebody with a soul. Because, you know, I've lived it. I've built companies. I know that, you know, and it's probably controversial with the Facebook generation, you know, or these people that have watched too many reruns of the social network, or, you know, they're recent graduates of Techstars where you can be an entrepreneur in, in six weeks. It doesn't happen that way. Um, it takes six, 10 years. It's a marathon. And it's a tremendous amount of sacrifice, and you don't do it for money. You don't do it to be, you know, on TV or run around in wine parties like this. You do it because you have to do it. Because you wake up and you can't go work at Bloomberg or IBM. You have to go build stuff with people. And those are the people I look for. And then those people, they figure it out.
AI assessment note: “I always over index on people. So for me, I'm looking for Courage. Character. Conviction.”