Lucas Swisher

Hi, I'm 19 years old.

But it's amazing because you have this platform where young people are empowered and they're able to grow within the organization and bring other people in as they need.

You learn how to navigate a process at

you know, 19, 20, 21 years old, it's this incredible training ground.

But I was the first one at Insight to leave my class.

And it was hard because it was like, it was basically like stepping off the linear path.

Like most of my life had been like very linear decisions.

Not very hard to like take the SAT, do well, not very hard to accept Harvard, and then not very hard to go to Insight even though it was a little abnormal at the time, like it was a billion dollar fund when I went.

Going from Insight and leaving your comfortable class in basically, you know, private equity SaaS,

and going to be the only associate on the West Coast in a place you didn't know.

That was a little bit of a leap.

I mean, that's my advice to all the young folks in their careers.

Like, you've got to get off the linear path.

You have to.

Like, it's the only way.

Get off the linear path.

It's like the king making.

It certainly helps.

I think if you look at some of the advantages that you have being in San Francisco, right, just the incredible amount of talent density, there are not very many people in the world that know how to work with these systems right now.

That's just the reality.