David Weisburd

In your case, you have to keep on asking yourself, is this boldness or is this lunacy?

Am I doing this because it's the right thing and other people can't see it?

Or B, have I completely lost my mind?

And sometimes those barriers are extremely thin.

Sometimes it's a very thin walk between being contrarian and right and just being completely crazy.

I want to go back to this concept of persistence.

You're very close with Elon Musk.

You're kind enough to invite me to Thanksgiving with him.

And you've really got to observe him from close up.

Has his persistent rubbed off on you or is it just completely unrelated to your ability to persist through these difficult times?

You've also raised $10 billion outside of this transaction, which is probably one of a dozen people on planet Earth could say that in the venture space.

What have been some of the learnings from raising venture capital in both down and up markets?

There's this cliche that sometimes the most difficult things in life

really make you stronger?

Over the last 21 months, you've gone through this process.

It threatened your marriage.

It threatened you as a human being.

Do you regret?

Are you thankful for that 21 months?

Or is it just something that you had to get through and it was a huge pain in the ass?