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Despite being an LP, I don't actually get paid until the LPs got 100% of their money back. I don't see a shekel, a dollar before they see the money back. I'm 100% substance, 0% appearance.

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despite being an LP, I don't actually get paid until the LPs got 100% of the money back. That's how the it's set up. So this is radical alignment. I don't see it a shekel, a dollar before they, see the money back. And, because of that, I'm really, really pretty incentivized to optimize for the for the LPs. But and but and not you know, remember what I said at the beginning of the call, substance versus appearance? So I'm 100% substance, 0% appearance. What do you think are the biggest

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Demonstrates extreme GP-LP alignment that's virtually unheard of in venture. The 'substance vs appearance' framing and colorful language ('shekel, a dollar') makes this highly memorable and shareable.

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Despite being an LP, I don't actually get paid until the LPs got 100% of their money back. I don't see a shekel, a dollar before they see the money back. I'm 100% substance, 0% appearance.

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I'm the biggest LP in every one of my funds. About 13, 14%. And I don't have any LP who's more than 10%. And on top of it, I have 30% carry. So really, I'm 40 something percent of the economics.

Every investment I have to ask myself, is this company a likely beneficiary of AI or not? If the answer is that they're a victim of AI, obviously it's an easy answer. But even if the answer is neutral, still the answer is probably no.

The compensation that the GP gets from the management fee is typically greater than the upside. Let's say you have $10 billion and you charge 2%. The minute you close the fund, you already made $200 million.

If you have a piece of software that's fairly simple, then someone can write it quickly and maybe price it lower and have better functionality. Those companies are at risk. But the more operationally complex the business is, the harder it's gonna be.

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