David Weisburd

It has its own brand, the conference itself.

With me, I obviously have the podcast.

To me, that's a much smarter way to give than to give one to one.

And you've gone through thousands of startups.

It's not over 10,000 to make those 50 investments.

And

There's this age-old question about EQ and IQ in the general business world.

In the venture capital world, it seems to be settled that you want IQ over EQ.

But is that really what you see in these $10 billion outcomes in terms of high IQ and EQ's way down?

But is it one of those things that's necessary on some level?

You can't be completely oblivious to it, but IQ is where you get your lift?

If you could go back 25 years ago and you could give a younger David

advice on what to avoid or what to do in order to accelerate his career.

What piece of advice would you give him?

I like to say somebody that pretends to be an honest person for 20 years, eventually they become an honest person.

Taken to the extreme, you become who you pretend to be.

Somebody that pretends to be a bad person for 20 years at some point, you have to call them a bad person.

On that note, David, it's been 14 years since I read that article about nice people.

I do consider myself a nice person.

So it's an honor to have you on the podcast.