Martín Escobari

And it's curative.

It's healing to channel it in a positive way.

I believe managing one's emotions productively requires either therapy, writing a journal, or meditating.

You should do two of the three.

I do two of the three.

Trying to do the third one is really hard.

When I got promoted to chairman of the investment committee, so elevated from a Latin American role all my life to head of the investment committee of General Atlantic, this iconic global house lost.

So I go to the two founders.

Steve Denning was the CEO for the first 20 years.

Army man, McKinsey man, Stanford MBA, structured.

I say, Steve, how do I make decisions across so many geographies and business models?

What's the framework you think I should apply to add value to my partners?

And he said, you should develop a checklist that captures the characteristics of a winning GA deal.

So go back and look at our 25 years of history.

Our best deals all share a couple characteristics.

I'll give you the three M's, but they're probably five P's as well.

Create a checklist.

And I was like, yeah, checklist.

Same day, I go to the co-founder, Dave Hodgson.

He's just super glued, but just the smartest guy in the room always.