Geoff Woo

But you've also incubated, you know, getting a bit better.

Could you show us incubating more companies where you have unfair advantage like you did in sort of, you know, betting?

Or how do you think about that?

you know you could launch a company and then you know open ai or claude replicates it next week and um you're kind of out of luck yeah totally i and we were talking earlier about the need to monetize it anecdotally i've seen the sort of creator class get a lot smarter more sophisticated about you know we've never like yourself getting into venture getting to private equity but even you know jimmy was originally making chocolate now he's just bought a bank he's like hey i can make a dollar off a customer or maybe you can make

hundreds of dollars of a customer.

And so you guys getting into actually building software product and companies sort of I feel like people are getting more sophisticated about where the value is.

And I'm excited to see that trend continue.

Yeah, I think it's a good place to wrap.

Yeah.

Jake, Jeff, you guys are doing something really exciting.

We're excited to be co-investors in a number of companies together and more to come.

Thanks so much for coming to the podcast.

Thanks, man.

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