Ramtin Naimi

We have a 30-minute meeting at least once a day to just catch up on every company people have met with that day because we meet with so many companies that it's very easy to forget what was interesting.

On a daily basis, we're kind of just syncing up.

Has anybody met anything that other people on the team should meet?

The number one thing that I look to from founders is prove to me that you're exceptional.

If you look at the most successful, impressive founders out there, they tend to have been impressive people prior to starting that company.

They had a history of doing special and impressive things.

And

There was this famous question on Quora once upon a time that somebody asked and said, is it true that nobody's ever started a successful company after 35 years old?

Because in Silicon Valley, everyone's like, I know all the power law companies are founded by younger individuals, which has some truth and also doesn't.

And the people who answered that question were like,

Reid Hoffman, he's like, I founded LinkedIn when I was over 35.

And Mark Benioff, he's like, I founded Salesforce when I was over 35.

And Reid Hastings, I founded Netflix when I was over 35.

And every single one of those people were very successful by the time they'd started those companies.

It's hard for me to believe if I meet somebody

that if I can't get a sense that this person is special or has been special or has done impressive things in their life, that the first impressive thing they're ever going to do is this company that they're asking me to invest in.

So do you literally ask them, tell me the most impressive things you've done?

I ask about what are entrepreneurial things you've done.

Tell me your story.

If there is something impressive in their story, they will make sure it stands out.