Alice Bentinck

We run anything that we think ambitious, smart people will be interested in and use that as a way to get to know them.

And sometimes it's, you know, the people that come to these groups aren't necessarily always the people we end up working with.

It might be a friend of theirs.

But, you know, my team, you know, why do we have 100 people?

It's because we have most of the team going out and we call them talent investors.

Their job is to go and identify the most exceptional potential founders.

And that's really hard, right?

Because they haven't necessarily founded anything at that point.

And their job is to go out and kind of sniff these people out, go digging.

And yeah, it works.

It works pretty well.

Yeah, I mean, YC is the most incredible, incredible investor.

And I mean, typically they still invest in companies that have ideas and co-founders.

And so we're really looking for people who are one stage before that.

And actually, you know, some of our companies then go on to do YC afterwards.

Yeah.

uh but yeah we go one stage before so we're really looking for people at the very beginning of considering being a founder um they might have an idea but they aren't necessarily 100 sure it's the right idea they're looking for a co-founder they want the kind of hands-on matchmaking service that we can provide um so yeah it's a slightly different model you know we call it talent investing because it really is about the people and providing a service to a person rather than to a company

I mean, always as an investor, you have to be so careful about pattern matching, but while we're talking about pattern matching, what do we look for?

Um, we're like builders, you know, people who can create things, people who have technical backgrounds, um, having a very strong bias to action.

So that bias to build the bias to create and having that speed and urgency that comes with it.