Keith Rabois
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Maybe shades of grades between like maybe I grade A plus and he'd say A.
And is that because you both
Similar, do you talk about it?
Or we do discuss it, but it's interesting.
Just generally what happens on like a partner presentation level is a company will come in, present, and there'll be you know the five MDs here plus the rest of the investment team.
And then after the you know founder finishes, we'll discuss like should we invest and why?
Venon and I have had very different opinions on whether we should invest at what terms and what price, you know, in which companies.
But I can't recall a specific founder where
we didn't have the same reaction, which is really fascinating because like seven years times partner meetings, 50 weeks a year.
hundredths.
Um, whereas like I definitely can remember very specific illustrations with some of my partners like Samir, who's a very good investor, or David Wyden who's a very good investor, where we did grade very differently.
And you know, one of us might have been right, the other one might have been right.
But interestingly enough, the nid and I like seem to have the same constellation of assessment.
I guess maybe
On the founder level, no.
But then we may discuss like the market opportunity, the business opportunity, the angle, the initial entry point.
Cause like usually inertia is the worst thing for a startup early stage, right?
The world doesn't like you, doesn't need think it needs you.
And you've got to invert that.
Like you remember this in Lattice, like you have to create momentum from scratch.
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