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“Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist. Like if you can save like a pessimist with the idea that all of history is a continuous chain of surprises and setbacks and disappointments and pandemics and all these things that like suck. And all of history…”

“And I do think the secret of some of the most You know, people who seem super prescient, like they can just, you know, read the future amazing at investing in stocks, or they're incredible entrepreneurs, they just can see opportunities or whatever it is. I eve…”

“What is interesting though, is I, to be honest, I think that more investors are here than founders. There's a lot of talk about like, People from tech coming here and I don't have any hard evidence or data on this, but there aren't a lot of founders here, whic…”

“Founders need to start taking back not control, but conviction that we are the people that are on the front lines doing the stuff. We are the scarce ones. Money's of abundance. Investors are of abundance. Boards are of abundance.”

“Think about it with a team, you have to like give great, you know, you're trying to keep the inspiration like that, that, that energy on Mondays and through the week of like, yeah, here's the vision. And like, maybe your investor updates, maybe you don't know …”

“They're like, yeah, but I need to be making half a million in, like, the pre-seed stage of the company. In order for this to work. And I'm like, well, that's just never going to happen. Like zero people will invest in that.”

“My take is that if you have investors, you have micro bosses and you have to manage expectations and you have to manage up. And sometimes subconsciously you're doing things that are, you're just trying to please them, even if it's subconsciously, because a lot…”