Aram Verdian
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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It's exactly right.
Yes, that's a big part of it externally.
I mean, internally, just the team I work with, like the people I work with are... Actually, we did an onsite with a manager recently, and we talked about the concept of can colleagues be friends or not?
And there are many firms out there in venture firms where the colleagues are not friends, but they're just professionals working together, but there's really not a big connection outside of work.
And there are some firms where that's not the case.
They start out as friendships and then that's the foundational layer.
Or they're almost like, I don't want to say family members, but they treat each other like family members because they're so close.
That's the foundational layer on top of which they build a firm.
And then there's a professional setting.
I'm very fortunate and where the compounding has really happened is the combination of both at Accolade.
Because the partners we have, I work with them for decades plus.
And it's not just professional relationship.
It's not just friendship.
I consider them family.
And having that combination is really, really hard.
I remember when I was in Stanford Business School and I was fortunate enough to run the Venture Club for a year.
And in my second year there, and a lot of the first years come and they talk about how they want to intern or they want to work in a venture capital firm.
And at that point we had data from
tens and tens and tens of placements we had done over many years from the venture club.
And it was interesting, the number one reason, typically, a graduating GSB student didn't work out at a venture firm was team and culture.
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