Andrew Marks

So everything we do at our firm is in service of that.

And it's not because other approaches aren't also extremely valid or work for other people.

It's just that this is what motivates us.

And so we have no ambition to broaden our firm in terms of strategies or turn our firm into some big asset manager.

And if our jobs turned from investing into management, we'd be extremely unhappy.

And that trade-off isn't worth it.

So everything we do is in service of trying to do what we love and maximize our time doing that and have the best returns that we possibly can.

And so do the things that we think enable that, which in our opinion,

in this business is really all about your reputation with founders and having as broad of a network of as many incredibly talented potential founders as you can.

And then being able to do whatever we can to build the best relationships we can with them.

And I think that comes from helping them, but I think that also comes from being great partners and also friends.

That's how we build the firm and it's very different.

Look, there are other people in venture who do that stuff extremely well.

I think those podcasts are great.

And I think people who do it probably do it because they enjoy it, but also because it really helps them.

I mean, builds great brands with founders and increases their network and adds a lot of credibility and...

All that type of stuff.

I think at some point you just sort of do what suits you.

And we have certain things that suit us and other people have things that suit them.

And it's not really a strategic question about if going on podcasts help us or hurt us or being public facing or whatever.