Anish Acharya

It's going extraordinarily well.

And they know, they're taking all the shortcuts because they know the market.

So I do think particularly in enterprise,

Working in the same domain and being a repeat entrepreneur is a huge source of alpha.

I actually think conversely in consumer, having a beginner's mind and a high willingness to be embarrassed is a competitive advantage because so many consumer products feel embarrassing and, you know,

immediately dismissed as embarrassing or impossible or a silly, non-serious thing to be working on.

When you're 25 and the stakes are low, you just want to make something happen in the world.

That is a perfect setup.

Once you've sold a company, all of a sudden, it's like your venture friends are like, what are you working on?

Your girlfriend or your boyfriend's like, what are you working on?

You want to sound cool at dinner parties or at the bar.

And that slight hesitation to be embarrassed can sometimes hold you back from the most ambitious, interesting consumer ideas.

Well, I think the number one thing, and here's my free advice to other investors, but also founders, is just like, you have to use the products today more than ever.

And I think the investing landscape of five or seven years ago, when there was a ton of fintech, and I'm a fintech guy, I love fintech, but it was harder to build intuition for the

a small business factoring solution.

Like, I'm not really, I don't know, maybe I should start a small business.

Like, there's too many steps to actually try the product.

But today, being native in this product cycle just means waking up every day and being like, if there's three new models today, I'm going to try three new models.

I'm actually going to make something.

So holding yourself to an incredibly high standard of trying everything just gives you so much information and intuition.