Mercedes Bent
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417 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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And then I became a VC in 2019.
And at that time, I was thinking this is a perfect amalgamation of all my experiences, part finance, part startup.
And that was at light speed.
I got my shot from Jeremy Liu, who hired me in 2018.
I started in 2019 and just had a phenomenal experience there.
tons of investing, but that was really kind of the upbringing that led me here today.
And so now that I'm going back on the entrepreneurial route again, it feels like another continuation of all my life points have just kind of led up to this.
Yeah.
What we want to build was really largely informed by some of the gaps that we see in the market and as well as the decision on how we wanted to build a firm.
Some of our guiding principles are always be transparent.
top decile, always seek alignment.
Everything must compound.
We really want to run it like a startup and rewarding originality.
Those are really important to us.
I have a little post-it note on my wall next to me right here that says live on an island.
Originality stems away from the mainland.
And that's how we think we're at large firms that are
where sometimes consensus is more so what drives the agenda, but we always felt that our original ideas and insights into contrarian areas were what drove a lot of the returns.
And so we are thinking about that for ourselves in terms of how we set up things like decision-making frameworks, for example.
But even more important was the gap that we saw in the market.
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