Ramtin Naimi

And I was trying to figure out how to talk about it.

Jerry Yang was one of my LPs who I spoke to about it.

And then he said, no, I knew about it.

He's like, I loved it.

And I was like, why did you love it?

He goes, you should wear that as an entrepreneurial badge of honor.

Any founder in the world with a failed company would have been in that same exact position had they put their own money up for a company.

That's true entrepreneurship.

You put everything you had into something because you believed in it.

And when it didn't work, you had to start from scratch.

Venture capital is you put everything somebody else has into whatever you believe in.

And if it doesn't work out, then you get a job at Apple or Google.

That was actually a really interesting way to phrase it for me.

Not that I don't think there's various tiers of entrepreneurship, but the whole concept of wearing is a badge of honor.

It's like, yeah, you lost your own money on something that, you know, typically most people just lose other people's money on.

Looking back on it, that was cool.

That was the epitome of my resilience journey.

I got knocked as hard on my ass as I possibly could have and was humbled as much as somebody possibly could have been and had to start completely from scratch once again.

And then I ended up with an entry-level job at a small venture capital firm.

That's where I met my partner today, Alex Davidoff.