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Mitchell Green

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

So then why have the criteria?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

Because you need to set a framework for what to focus on and what not to focus on.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

How do you train these young people to be able to get all this information to know whether or not it's an eight point score or whatever out of an entrepreneur?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

What is the art of...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

getting someone on the phone and then actually getting them to tell you the information that you need.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

It is incredible what people will tell you on the phone.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

If you think about this machine, so we've got this very unique LP base.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

We do 9,000 calls, five to seven investments per year.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

We just raised our seventh fund.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

It was three and a half billion.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

Okay, so three and a half billion dollar fund, two to two and a half percent net MOICs to your investors.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

So that's the machine.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

Where do you feel the most tempted to go tinker on the machine for the next decade?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

How do you hope the machine...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

If you think about all the investments you've made the last five years or something, how often are you personally excited about the company and its product?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

How often do you control the business?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

We are in a control position about a third of the time.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

When that's the case, how different is that?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

That's what's really important.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

I want to go back to the culture thing, the lead-edge culture, I mean.