Mercedes Bent

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417 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard Sep 2025

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That's also part of this self-perpetuating loop.

We think about it like we want to productize our network because one of the other things I believe about venture is your network really gets stale.

I think the shelf life is probably like three to five years of a snapshot in time before that network is superseded by some other hot talent node.

And we already saw that happen in operating.

Our operating networks are now at this point, seven, eight years old.

Those are kind of stale now.

And now pretty soon our networks from our tier one VC firms are going to be stale in another three years.

It's a snapshot in time.

So we have to start building the engine for fund two, fund three and beyond.

And that's why we really are being so intentional with how we set up this brand and sub series.

There's a ton that goes into it.

We also, by the way, spent like, you know, 15,000 on it in the last six months and had like thousands of people apply.

So we're very scrappy as well.

But I think this is the type of thing that when I thought to your question of like, why are we such good partners for each other?

And what did we bring as values to the table?

That one example shares so many different facets of it.

The focus having to be all in technical engineers, researchers, PMs.

That was also something that came from the co-creation too.

Yeah, that's a great question.

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