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 so we find that one, there's a terminology issue, but two, there's really a issue where people don't know how to underwrite these companies before they have revenue.
Once they have revenue,
Everyone's on board.
It's easy to write, you know, to analyze the cohorts.
But before then, you really need to assess a low-touch, no-touch, go-to-market motion.
And that's really what defines consumer, by the way, not like – consumer's not a category –
Low touch, no touch, you know, go to market motion and product pull and product engagement metrics.
And we just felt we were uniquely qualified to do that.
Also given our backgrounds working in product and Vanessa's working as an engineer as well to really identify and underwrite that founder profile and the engagement that they start to build in their product.
Yeah, that's a great question.
I mean, I always said our partnership has to be one plus one equals more than two because otherwise we should just go be individual solo GPs.
It really needs to be that the intersection of the two people together creates far better ideas than what they would have individually come up with.
And that...
key criteria for a partner in addition to having super deep trust and super deep foundation has really proved true so far for us.
I have more of the, you know, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve, financial background.
She has more of the Georgia Tech.
She's
computer science undergrad, worked in all technical PM roles for her first seven, eight years out of school.
The marriage of those two is what allows us to do.
And also both having very much so a product-focused mindset is what allows us to see founders really in the same way and also to bring something unique to the table.
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