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“If you're an investor who is now backing a founder without a safety net, you are gonna be damn choosy about which founders you back, and you are gonna back the cream of the cream founders who actually know how to do the maneuvers.”

“When I'm speaking to founders and when they're pitching, when they're kind of not clear about the roadmap, Right. I get it when you're, when, but when they're not fully clear, when I find them asking me questions like, well, what would you do? Well, wait, that…”

“For us, when we started Favorite Daughter, they said, like, who's your girl? And we're just, like, making things up, you know? Like, I don't, she's, like, just graduated college, and she's, like, going through a breakup, and she wants to buy her first blazer t…”

“One thing that I never understand in tech, and everyone here will probably disagree with me, or maybe agree with me, is that when you start a business, you're supposed to tell your potential investors exactly who your customer is before your product exists, an…”

“One of the things that's interesting now is actually a lot of the investors in ByteDance and TikTok are actually staying pretty silent on the lobbying front, which is a huge shift from a year or two years ago.”

“I think that we're going to start seeing more and more of these AI businesses get replicated and with like tweaks to business model or pricing or some new sort of virality go to market implementation. Like a lot of investors are going to lose money on the seco…”

“I think the reality is, is like the cynical, but realistic world is these things go public at huge number. I think people will sell less than they, than people think they will, because it's kind of like you're on the train. Getting off the train is a pretty dr…”