Nabeel Hyatt

So you do the first one and you're just trying to get a read. Is there a kismet? Is there a connection? Is there any chemistry here? Do you feel it? And then after that, it's like, yeah, we should just, let's just go for a walk, man. Let's go have a conversation. Let's go really talk about everything.

So you do the first one and you're just trying to get a read. Is there a kismet? Is there a connection? Is there any chemistry here? Do you feel it? And then after that, it's like, yeah, we should just, let's just go for a walk, man. Let's go have a conversation. Let's go really talk about everything.

So you do the first one and you're just trying to get a read. Is there a kismet? Is there a connection? Is there any chemistry here? Do you feel it? And then after that, it's like, yeah, we should just, let's just go for a walk, man. Let's go have a conversation. Let's go really talk about everything.

Probably not. There's some world where you met them five years ago, you know them quite well. Chris from Granola is a prior Spark founder.

Probably not. There's some world where you met them five years ago, you know them quite well. Chris from Granola is a prior Spark founder.

Probably not. There's some world where you met them five years ago, you know them quite well. Chris from Granola is a prior Spark founder.

And so he was one of the first people I met after I joined Spark, because I was supposed to go sprinkle growth fairy dust on him in New York and talk about growth marketing and growth hacking and all the rest of those metrics things that I don't really aspire to now.

And so he was one of the first people I met after I joined Spark, because I was supposed to go sprinkle growth fairy dust on him in New York and talk about growth marketing and growth hacking and all the rest of those metrics things that I don't really aspire to now.

And so he was one of the first people I met after I joined Spark, because I was supposed to go sprinkle growth fairy dust on him in New York and talk about growth marketing and growth hacking and all the rest of those metrics things that I don't really aspire to now.

And I said, you know, Discord, Jason, I knew for seven years, we were founders together before investing in Discord and also smartly passed twice on Discord before investing. So like, you know, like a lot of long-term relationships and a lot of short relationships where you passed and then spent time.

And I said, you know, Discord, Jason, I knew for seven years, we were founders together before investing in Discord and also smartly passed twice on Discord before investing. So like, you know, like a lot of long-term relationships and a lot of short relationships where you passed and then spent time.

And I said, you know, Discord, Jason, I knew for seven years, we were founders together before investing in Discord and also smartly passed twice on Discord before investing. So like, you know, like a lot of long-term relationships and a lot of short relationships where you passed and then spent time.

Cruise back in the day with Kyle, I passed, we did a huge deep dive on why I thought his business wasn't going to work. He disappeared for nine months and wouldn't return my emails. And then he comes back nine months later and he's like, yeah, this is We've re-pivoted. We've gone from trying to put aftermarket things on top of Audis and we're now going to build a full self-driving stack.

Cruise back in the day with Kyle, I passed, we did a huge deep dive on why I thought his business wasn't going to work. He disappeared for nine months and wouldn't return my emails. And then he comes back nine months later and he's like, yeah, this is We've re-pivoted. We've gone from trying to put aftermarket things on top of Audis and we're now going to build a full self-driving stack.

Cruise back in the day with Kyle, I passed, we did a huge deep dive on why I thought his business wasn't going to work. He disappeared for nine months and wouldn't return my emails. And then he comes back nine months later and he's like, yeah, this is We've re-pivoted. We've gone from trying to put aftermarket things on top of Audis and we're now going to build a full self-driving stack.

We're going to show you a demo, you and like five other investors a demo because I really liked our last conversation. And so you knew somebody for eight, nine months. You've thought of how they internalize information and you really know them. Now that can't always happen with every investor, The last investment I did was a company called Wordware.

We're going to show you a demo, you and like five other investors a demo because I really liked our last conversation. And so you knew somebody for eight, nine months. You've thought of how they internalize information and you really know them. Now that can't always happen with every investor, The last investment I did was a company called Wordware.

We're going to show you a demo, you and like five other investors a demo because I really liked our last conversation. And so you knew somebody for eight, nine months. You've thought of how they internalize information and you really know them. Now that can't always happen with every investor, The last investment I did was a company called Wordware.

And that was a very, very fast, very, very competitive. They had term sheets for quite a bit higher. But, you know, I'm getting dinner with the founders. I'm going for walks in the morning. Like I met with those guys six, seven times before we invested in the span of a week. You don't have time, but in the span of a week, because you care.

And that was a very, very fast, very, very competitive. They had term sheets for quite a bit higher. But, you know, I'm getting dinner with the founders. I'm going for walks in the morning. Like I met with those guys six, seven times before we invested in the span of a week. You don't have time, but in the span of a week, because you care.