Nabeel Hyatt

And like, I'm trying to measure literally everything to figure out whether I'm doing a good job. And I give so much credit to Bijan, who was the person who really recruited me into Spark, who just kind of would always reflect back to me. He was just like, did you enjoy the work you did today? Do you think you put all in? Do you think you want to come back and do it tomorrow? That's it, man.

And like, I'm trying to measure literally everything to figure out whether I'm doing a good job. And I give so much credit to Bijan, who was the person who really recruited me into Spark, who just kind of would always reflect back to me. He was just like, did you enjoy the work you did today? Do you think you put all in? Do you think you want to come back and do it tomorrow? That's it, man.

I don't think that making money changed my mindset very much. I don't actually think I execute that differently than when I had a term sheet pulled on me and I had to sell my car in order to make payroll for my team and those stages of early entrepreneurship.

I don't think that making money changed my mindset very much. I don't actually think I execute that differently than when I had a term sheet pulled on me and I had to sell my car in order to make payroll for my team and those stages of early entrepreneurship.

I don't think that making money changed my mindset very much. I don't actually think I execute that differently than when I had a term sheet pulled on me and I had to sell my car in order to make payroll for my team and those stages of early entrepreneurship.

I don't know that I process the world that differently, mostly because I like playing the game for the joy of playing the game, whatever the game is. And the score takes care of itself. And I get that we all get measured on a leaderboard. I don't get to keep doing this if we don't make a lot of money for our LPs and our founders aren't happy and all the rest of it. But I just enjoy the work.

I don't know that I process the world that differently, mostly because I like playing the game for the joy of playing the game, whatever the game is. And the score takes care of itself. And I get that we all get measured on a leaderboard. I don't get to keep doing this if we don't make a lot of money for our LPs and our founders aren't happy and all the rest of it. But I just enjoy the work.

I don't know that I process the world that differently, mostly because I like playing the game for the joy of playing the game, whatever the game is. And the score takes care of itself. And I get that we all get measured on a leaderboard. I don't get to keep doing this if we don't make a lot of money for our LPs and our founders aren't happy and all the rest of it. But I just enjoy the work.

And I still enjoy the work. And I can go do other things if this doesn't work out.

And I still enjoy the work. And I can go do other things if this doesn't work out.

And I still enjoy the work. And I can go do other things if this doesn't work out.

I don't know. The big broad thing that I think about right now is I can complain a lot about the way the VC market is structured today and think that it's not structured that well, frankly, for innovation. And it's not really in service to founders in the right way. That doesn't really answer how should this whole market actually work. If you could wave your wand and it was 10 years from now.

I don't know. The big broad thing that I think about right now is I can complain a lot about the way the VC market is structured today and think that it's not structured that well, frankly, for innovation. And it's not really in service to founders in the right way. That doesn't really answer how should this whole market actually work. If you could wave your wand and it was 10 years from now.

I don't know. The big broad thing that I think about right now is I can complain a lot about the way the VC market is structured today and think that it's not structured that well, frankly, for innovation. And it's not really in service to founders in the right way. That doesn't really answer how should this whole market actually work. If you could wave your wand and it was 10 years from now.

We might agree that especially in worlds of high levels of innovation, you can't look at a checklist and decide whether a company is amazing or not. And that's not how you make exceptions. And we're in the business of investing in exceptions and exceptional companies. But that doesn't really lay out like, what should this whole thing look like?

We might agree that especially in worlds of high levels of innovation, you can't look at a checklist and decide whether a company is amazing or not. And that's not how you make exceptions. And we're in the business of investing in exceptions and exceptional companies. But that doesn't really lay out like, what should this whole thing look like?

We might agree that especially in worlds of high levels of innovation, you can't look at a checklist and decide whether a company is amazing or not. And that's not how you make exceptions. And we're in the business of investing in exceptions and exceptional companies. But that doesn't really lay out like, what should this whole thing look like?

If we really believe that startups are the font of innovation and that they help the world move forward and also create great capital value for people and all the rest of it, what should it feel like and what should it look like?

If we really believe that startups are the font of innovation and that they help the world move forward and also create great capital value for people and all the rest of it, what should it feel like and what should it look like?

If we really believe that startups are the font of innovation and that they help the world move forward and also create great capital value for people and all the rest of it, what should it feel like and what should it look like?