"We're going to pick some good ones. We're going to pick some ones that don't go well and then we're going to miss some great ones too. And so I don't think that in every case should mean that the founder takes it back like, I have a terrible idea. This isn't going to work. That's just the way it goes as a VC."

"I'm looking for clarity around what problem you are solving. I can't tell you the amount of decks where you get kind of 10 to 12 pages in and just like, I don't even know what the product is. I now understand there's 10 problems in this industry, but I don't know what you're solving or how you're solving it."

"I think the answer that really excites me is if we got an acquisition offer in five years, I'd say no. I want this thing to go public. I want this to be a long standing company. This is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life."

"If you're raising at $65M out the gate, are you going to be able to raise at $150M in a year from now when you need it? So I think that's probably one of the biggest traps to fall into."

"We truly, we're backing the founders and not necessarily always just the idea. We're backing that you will be able to do something, you'll be able to get something done... And that something might be very different in the future."