Eric abramson
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That's one of the great perks, especially for somebody who's come from another venture firm, to benchmark, is you don't write a memo.
And it's because a memo really is a vehicle to obviously give background on a company, all the work you've done, but it is also a little bit a pre-sell before the company comes in to present.
And so, you know, a lot of hours get consumed by the writing of it and the reading of others and not to have like a founder come in then.
It's a blank sheet and you just get to have the experience of the founder.
Actually, you know that that's going to be what Monday is like when you're first Monday.
And you talk to Bruce or whoever, and they say, just Monday has no agenda.
like you can intellectually get yeah you get and then i remember my first monday and sorry i interrupted on your first monday but you sit there and you keep on waiting for like well when are we going to talk about pipeline or when are we going to talk about you know updates you know and it like doesn't happen and instead it's like these random roving conversations but then but then the you know the topic of substance will come out in a natural way
One of the things we didn't talk about for our dinners is by getting to engage on these topics that aren't just the business of what we do every day, you just get to enjoy being together.
And you get to know each other in different dimensions, some of the stories that get told.
But it is critical to then what happens on the Mondays and everything in between.