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  • You're doing the startup and you work on a very small company where you

  • get to see all aspects of business not just one area.

  • And you try to join one that has really, really strong and

  • really smart people in it.

  • And people that you are inspired by people that you want to learn from and

  • be with, right.

  • When you find it, you go there, and you just have to ignore the salaries and

  • other such things that are just distractions in your path, right.

  • That just get you off the right road to success, you have to ignore all that and

  • join the most amazing team of people that you can find,

  • working on something that you believe in.

  • Well I mean, I was an entrepreneur first before I was an investor.

  • It's difficult for me to imagine a path into venture any other kind of investing,

  • any other kind of early stage investing without the self going through

  • the experience of building a business.

  • There are some exceptions of course, and there are multiple ways to get there, and

  • I know there are some great investors who'd never started a company.

  • But the way that I understand is to be an entrepreneur.

  • So work in some real estate startups, start your own company.

  • If it fail, start another one, get to some level of success, right.

  • And then start writing angel checks, trying to be really helpful,

  • build a good reputation.

  • And then perhaps join the fun we can start a fund as a future

  • investor that's the path that I took.

  • I suppose you could instead go to business school, and then try to be an associate

  • and a fund, and get caught with few fellow a little bit and do the very stress

  • screening pre-meetings and learn that way, and perhaps that's a good path also.

  • But I suspect, it's going to be difficult to really command the respect of

  • the entrepreneurs if you haven't gone through that experience.

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You're doing the startup and you work on a very small company where you

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