Drew Taggart
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I think you might have short-term success, but as anyone who's been successful tells you, it's a very long road of getting kicked in the nuts.
a lot and you kind of have to just love it so much that you almost enjoy the misery of those moments and know that it's just part of the process ultimately.
Going through this with a company of ours right now that's doing a really terrific job.
They just signed their first big enterprise customer.
They've spent the last four months building out integration.
And I really like admire how this is a guy that would 100%
He's going to bring BYOs, bring your own cloud to like the forefront.
This is his life's mission.
I think he's built like a really compelling platform.
He's a really compelling enterprise customer, but he's spent every, his team have been like, what do you need?
What is not working?
How do we make this perfect?
to learn through this experience with you as our first enterprise user, how to make this successful versus being like, who else wants this?
And he's really being intentional.
The same with us where it wasn't, let's just keep doing a million remixes.
We would listen to these songs and be like, does this meet the requirements of what we've
loved and think is a great indie song that should get remixed because it wasn't like always this is the number one sometimes it was the 15th song but we were like this song is sick and we need to remix this song and i think that intentionality is super important you really want to find someone that like has that experience knows exactly what they need to solve for but you really have to be careful to make sure that that person like what did they do before they worked at this company
On the practice of investing, like from ownership and stage, the discipline that goes into like making the descents make dollars.
And I think that's a really important piece that comes with experience the same way that you've had
I've been lucky to have conversations with Peter Fenn and Bill Gurley and Alfred Lin and prolific investors.