Scott Beechuk

I had no money when I started the company.

That's a great question.

You know, I never thought I would.

I was an entrepreneur for 15 years before Salesforce and then had a six and a half year run at Salesforce.

So in a way, I kind of think of myself more as an entrepreneur and a company builder than anything else.

But running through Salesforce was an opportunity for me.

to learn how to build at extreme scale and work with people who had done it many times over themselves.

And I thought, you know, when I was in my twenties and I was raising my own venture capital, I thought, you know, one day I would love to be, I would love to have enough experience learning how to do things the right way, making enough mistakes that I could actually share that broadly with a

Venture capital is a good way for me to sort of express that over more than just a single company.

So, again, that's that's my goal is to kind of share the good, the bad, the ugly and help these companies grow.

And, you know, after 22 years of experience.

It's a good one.

You know, I've only been a VC for, believe it or not, nine months.

I'm the new kid on the block.

So even as a partner in the firm, I would love to say that I've had the opportunity to transform these companies in that short amount of time.

But the reality is, you know, this is usually a pretty long time horizon.

One thing that I can say, though, is one of the investments that I've made, Socrates.ai, this is a

super cool company.

They're transforming the HR and benefits space using a conversational UI so that employees can have a really simple way to access all their information across potentially dozens of different complex

HR systems.