Martín Escobari

The hardest thing when you're young is developing patience and the conviction that you can wait a little longer for the big fish.

You're young.

You want to get gone.

You want to get gone.

You want to get deal experience.

You want to get notches on your belt.

And that's the completely wrong, wrong instinct.

When you're older, you have a lot more range.

You've seen a lot more and you got patience.

You're like, ha ha.

Calm down.

No pressure.

You are less in the front lines and more as a coach player training young partners to do what you used to do.

And initially, that can be very demotivating because Tom Brady likes to be in the field, not coaching or commenting.

Maybe not so fun.

Until you reimagine the game and you live vicariously through the people you're training and you enjoy their wins almost as much as you enjoyed your wins.

That's been the mental flip that I had to do to enjoy this phase.

Because of course, scoring goals is better than coaching.

Unless you make the mental shift to live vicariously through them.

The hard thing, and that's why there's not that many venture and growth equity investors over the age of 50.