Anish Acharya

We are like learning how to be investors through the lens of being a founder.

DG is a pure and highly, highly seasoned investor.

He has this sort of pure play investor clarity that I tend to learn a ton from.

He to me is so, so interesting at the growth stage in the same way that Dixon is interesting at the early stage.

So much of our best thinking is Dixon and also DG.

I mean, to me, a big decision was coming into investing and not being a sort of hands-on builder anymore.

I wasn't sure because I'd, you know, I've had some incredible investors, but I've had some investors that, you know, just weren't the best.

And sometimes through no fault of their own, sometimes they're sort of early career and sometimes...

they just were disengaged in a way that I never wanted to be.

So I was uncertain about whether I wanted to move into investing, and I remember sitting down with Ben.

Who was I to ask Ben questions?

But I'm like, well, I guess I'm not sure anyway, so let me just be direct with Ben.

I'm like, well, Ben,

How do you prevent bad behavior, you know, investor bad behavior?

How do you prevent the sort of high anxiety?

How do you prevent, you know, the person that's disengaged?

And he's like, well, in the near term, we don't measure you based on returns.

We measure you by going and talking to every one of your founders every two years, doing a 360 on you.

And if your founders say you're telling them the truth, you're showing up, you're doing the work.

you're being responsive, regardless of how those companies are performing, then you're doing a great job.