Alex Pall

I don't want to say effortless ways, but the ones that are most synced to who we inherently are.

Everything we said about intentionality and creating art that's really you.

How do we open that process up so we can do that the easiest?

What's our striving to evolve now?

There's so many parallels between investing and working with these companies and our own business.

And it's really fun to have our own business because it's so easy to be the therapist for somebody else and have an x-ray into like what they could be doing better, how to get out of their own way.

And then when it's you, it's like...

this is how it's always done it i came up with this you have all the shit in the way and so it's been a great mirror investing in these other businesses and then kind of looking at our own and being like how are we hitting these roadblocks or bottlenecks in our own situation but that key one being like be the founder the cto or whatever you're like best at like you don't have to be the ceo of your business hire someone that's great at that that's going to deal with that if you're the best product person you're the best visionary at the company don't be the ceo

Before Mantis, creating a venture tech fund, we've done a plethora of businesses.

We're very avid investors, both privately and publicly.

The tech world in just public markets, in real estate.

And I think at the time of our rise to, I guess, cultural zeitgeist time, which was probably 2016 to 2015 to probably 2018,

We met a lot of the class of founders that was Drew Houston from Dropbox, Brian Chesky from Airbnb, Michael Seibel, who was at YC at the time.

And these guys were really amazing and opened our eyes to what private tech investing looks like.

We didn't really know what venture capital was at the time.

And we saw through their eyes, a lot of them were simple.

It was like, you guys can invest in all of these companies.

Brands based on like who you are, people want cool people on the cap table and started with something as simple as that idea.

And then as we got to befriend these people and get an insight into how they ran their businesses, we realized we kind of had more in common with them than we did with most other musicians.

We growth hacked our first promotional platform, crowdsourced our first tour.