Ramtin Naimi

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And two, I wanted the name to show up places quickly.

I remember back then I spent all my days on Crunchbase and Crunchbase had things alphabetically listed.

And I realized if my firm started with an A, it would be at the top of the list on everything.

So I wanted a firm that started with A. And then I wanted a word that was easy to remember, didn't sound like any other venture capital firm.

And then I came up with the word abstract.

Then I found the definition for abstract.

And I'm like, this actually just seems like a perfect name for a C-stage venture capital firm.

I think the number one thing that's changed is in the early days, I just wanted to be accepted as an outsider.

And I think that's happened because I actually think Silicon Valley is a very special place.

If you prove that to earn your seat at the table,

No one actually cares about anything else.

You're at this seat for a reason and we'll leave it at that.

So I think that's no longer a chip.

At any instance of the firm's history, it was the early days were like, they don't know what they're doing.

They're just following other people.

I'll start leading deals.

And then we started leading deals and it's like, okay.

They only know what to do at seed.

They have no idea what to do at later stage.

And they might be right.

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