Jesse D. Serventi

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182 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 22 Jan

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It took us two solid years just to get into business, no paycheck.

And so we were really careful with our management fee dollars in the early years of the fund.

Fund two comes along.

We start bringing in some institutional investors.

In fact, our largest institutional investor in fund two is still our largest institutional investor today.

And they asked us a really simple question.

When are you guys going to start building the team?

And they were walking us through like why we should do this, giving us comfort.

Hey, you're going to be around for a while.

And Atif says this sometimes.

Some of these institutional investors, they believed in us more than we believed in ourselves.

And that helped get us started on really investing and thinking about Renovis as an enterprise.

And we have so fully embraced that.

10 years later after our second fund was raised that today this is what we have.

We have a large team.

We have a director of people.

We work with an executive coach.

And so it has been a gradual thing, but we've gotten some great advice that's helped us make that transformation that we very much needed to make.

Absolutely.

This concept, I think like Netflix popularized it of talent density.

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