Camilo Acosta

I don't think there's an either or.

Again, if it's the right team, it's the right team.

You have to believe that they're willing to move quickly because sometimes you can have a really smart team, but they don't iterate fast enough.

They get caught up in sunk costs and say like, oh, we've already built all of this.

Do we really want to pivot to something else?

You need to invest in someone who's willing to let all that go and be ruthless with their time.

Uh, I don't lose sleep over, but I do think it's real.

I think we, we have to think about it and, and it's unfortunately true that we have to balance it with national security concerns.

So there's often this tension in the U S at least of building for safety and building for speed.

Um, you can, you know, dumb it down and say it's enthrall papers open AI.

But the reality is, is if we don't build it, China will.

There is that tension.

One of the key things I've come to accept is that some of the best founders in the world are not necessarily always the best people to work for or to work with.

There is an element of ruthlessness that's required.

in building generational companies to transform humanity.

It's a sacrifice they are making personally, but it's a sacrifice they ask their employees to make as well and a sacrifice they ask investors to make as well.

And so there's often a desire to do business with people you like, right?

Like it's a common maxim in the business.

And the reality in venture is that sometimes you want to do business with people you don't like because they are the best, the most extraordinary, impactful people in history.

Yes.