Jim Stallings named his fund PS27 after Psalm 27, a passage he and fellow Marines used to read before dangerous missions, and he judges founders mainly by their leadership, saying it makes up 90% of his investment decision and that he’d rather back a strong leader with a flawed plan than a weak leader with a polished one. He now asks founders how much of their product is being built by AI, hopes to help turn Jacksonville into a major tech hub after choosing to return there following his time at IBM, and is known around PS27 for Bentley, the talking dog who serves as the firm’s mascot.