Bill Gurley

Yeah.

And Dara's done an amazing job.

I mean, to take it from there to $200 billion public company, over $10 billion a year in free cash flow.

Like, from where we were?

Yeah.

Unbelievable.

I think it's...

Really important.

In the venture area, it's probably a nine.

Like, I don't know that it's that high in every other field.

I don't know that I'd have a good field for it.

In venture, your ability to compete for the next deal is everything.

And that's either enhanced or hurt by what the world thinks of you.

And in venture, that personal brand can shine brighter than even the corporate brand a lot of times.

And so you just have to worry about it if you want to be competitive.

Yeah, there's a couple of things.

They are continuous learners because they're tilting at some new problem on the edge of their field.

And there's no way that could be something they learned in school five years ago because, you know, it's like AI right now.

Everything's changing so fast.

Bezos has said that for his angel investments, he wants to feel like this person's going to do this no matter what.