Mercedes Bent

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But the question is, there's always something that is in the hype kind of growth category at that time.

And can you enter and exit quickly enough?

So really where more the exit question has become more the issue for them.

So then it's, what are you doing from a secondaries perspective?

What are you doing from a continuity funds perspective?

How can you enter and exit quickly at scale and hype-y levels?

fast-growing categories is now the game for some of the larger ones.

And that is really where I think the innovation is coming, as you know more than probably anyone, is all on the exit construction.

So I think that's a very different game.

To your question about more competing

on kind of known quantities.

I mean, frankly, I don't view myself as competing on known quantities.

I have zero business being in a mirror thinking machines round.

Okay.

That's maybe an extreme, but even still, you know, if you take your random

person of the mill who comes out of OpenAI or Anthropic and wants to raise, you know, 15, 20 million.

I'm not in those either.

Let's bring it down even to the ones who are doing, raising eight to 10 million.

at 40 to 50 post, which is becoming very common.

I probably don't want to be in those either.

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