Q Yeah, so how do you, how do you go all the way back in time and see it early when you invest early?
A Yeah, I mean, you know, the, the role of the, the CEO slash founder through the whole company history, I think, is going to be to be a magnet, right? So you're, you're setting a vision, you're communicating a vision, you're attracting talent, you're attracting capital, you're kind of rallying people to the flag. It's like this pulling together, Initially, and then as the company scales, it's kind of this, like, north star that sort of pulls everything together when things start to fright. I think what's really interesting from our perspective is we, we tend to invest mostly series A, series B, and, and what you'd now call seed. So like when I invested in Box, it was three people in a garage, literally. Um, you know, we're getting involved with these guys super, super early, and I think that, um, you know, sometimes people who are great early can scale all the way through, and sometimes they can't. And I think it's because the role typically changes over time. So, you know, um, when I was a student at Stanford, uh, Tom Siebel, who, I don't know if people remember Siebel, It's the fastest growing company in history at the time, and he came in and he told us, he said, you know, I was here, I thought accounting and finance were the only things that mattered, and all the touchy-feely psychology stuff was just bullshit.
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