Alice Bentinck

Um, and that was the thing that really got me thinking that this could even be a career path, that being a founder could even be a thing.

Um, and I'd sort of forgotten about this and I knew that I'd been really interested in it.

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It's a large part of what we do.

And it's the bit that people and VCs, when we started this 10 years ago, said, you know, this isn't going to work.

You cannot take strangers and turn them into co-founders.

And we've now built $15 billion worth of companies through this process.

And the reason why it works is because we're so intentional.

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We're so intentional about it.

Because I think one of the things that we often see is people stumble into what we call a co-founder of convenience.

You know, it's just the person, the friend that happens to be available at the time when they wanted to find something.

And they have done that so many times.

And it doesn't always work out.

And there's often all this baggage, right, that's connected to that relationship.

And one of the things that we are very obsessive about is, OK, well, how do you create the environment that allows people to have the conversations that are fierce and are about actually what do you want?

What are you willing to give up to co-found together?

Do you really have the right complementary skills?