Drew Taggart

To me, we saw that as much as it was like a hill we were going to have to climb, the bar was clearly low.

So it was like, maybe we don't have to do that much to be that much better.

But it was also like a market opportunity.

It was like, wait a minute, people think

we're going to be fucking useless.

And that this is based on a lot of other people that have come before us and their experience with them.

If we do this right, it's a lot of white space for us to be unique and different.

That's the kind of product market fit that we found in our music early on.

And that I think gave us the confidence to start Mantis and take it really seriously.

Being comfortable losing is a weird one.

No one wants to lose, but I think it's a power law game.

You build a career off of a couple of huge songs, hopefully.

And then there's lots of hopefully other, lots of great music, but only very few artists like a Drake will just constantly deliver smash songs for 10, 15 years.

Or Bruno Mars, probably the most notable one from a percentage basis.

You have to learn from each song and iterate and grow and feel comfortable with that.

And it's like,

Venture is very much the same thing.

You're going to hopefully back a couple of extraordinary companies, but most of your companies won't go on to be super successful.

And you can't think you're a terrible investor.

Each of those opportunities paved the way for hopefully more future success comes.