William Quigley

So even though you can make a lot of money on, I don't know, cybersecurity.

I I'm not as interested in those things because I like things where people will voluntarily give you their money.

I like consumer oriented businesses as opposed to the long drawn out pain of an enterprise sale.

So these are all my biases because those are the things I've been doing.

And, uh,

It's too bad, but it does seem to be that the only way to build and maintain a very successful global business with rare exception, you know, Tether would be one, is you have to raise lots of capital.

Yeah, it's very hard to see businesses these days that are strictly privately financed or financed internally with internally generated cash flows that that can maintain their their because the VCs are so quick to flood the market with frankly crappy entrepreneurs who drive down the margins and then create huge battles.

Yeah.

for talent right like so the wages start going up i saw this with nfts so much money went into that space so yeah so those would be i would be looking at the as opposed to a specific like business itself i sort of look for the building blocks of what make a good business yes

How about you?

Let me flip that.

What about you?

Is there anything that strikes you as really like a broader area that strikes you as exciting that you might want to do something in?

I do believe it will be technology enabled for sure.

Yeah, exactly.

The scalability and leverage you get from digital economics are so compelling.

It's going to be something in that area.

The worry people have, I don't have this worry, but a lot of people worry that the big companies will remain very big and that will be it.

These big companies will be around forever.

You know, I heard that with Microsoft.