Isaiah Taylor

VCs do not trust their own intellect to understand a concept in front of them.

What they're trying to understand generally, this again, it's a split, right?

There's a couple of VCs who are incredibly smart people who think for themselves, who trust their own minds to understand concepts.

But that's like a very small portion.

pretty much all of the rest of them are trying to figure out like, is this company gonna get funded in the next round or two?

Which really has very little to do with the concept in front of them and more to do with like, what network is this person from?

Who does he know?

And I was from zero network and knew nobody.

I was like literally living in a town of 20,000 people in North Idaho.

um with with like a crazy idea so uh that like that was just not something that they were they were used to they were not looking at me and the idea they were looking at like where am i from what networks am i am i going to get future capital down the road which i think is a really bad way to underwrite companies like that's not how you should invest you should invest based on who the person is what their concept is how how well do they understand the world and do you agree with how they see the world

But that's a rare person.

I mean, did you research how weak the power grid is and how?

So obviously, like my family history on the Manhattan Project gave me a predisposition to be interested in nuclear.

But I would like to think that I was extremely objective about

and wanted to find genuinely like the cheapest way to make power.

That's really what I cared about.

And I was willing for that to not be nuclear.

In fact, for a while, I would say it was actually a little bit anti-nuclear, maybe a little bit as like a personal like anger that,

you know, this thing that I had been obsessed with for a long time wasn't happening, right?

It was really confusing to me.