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One of the questions even came before you had talked about how you balance life and family. And this came from one of our online students, somewhere in the ether, who said, well, that's interesting for a venture capitalist to be able to balance children, life and family. Would you expect your entrepreneurs to be able to do the same?
What a tough question.
They get harder.
So our entrepreneurs, I recognize, have, especially at the seed stage, where it's sort of life or death, and half the time you feel like you're dying. I know that that work, life, balance, it's hard to say it's balanced. And a lot of our entrepreneurs actually have families. And. I think it's a struggle. But that's why you also have to be so passionate. You have to believe so much that you think it's worth it in the end. And I think this is true of any job, any job that you have. I tell this to my students all the time. When you leave the door to go to work, if you have a family, every day, you're making that choice to leave your family to go to work. And if you don't believe that it's worth it, you're going to have a crisis of conscience at some point. And the beauty is that the entrepreneurs that I'm working with today really believe that they're onto something. And I know that some of them are women, they're mothers, and some of them are men who are fathers, and a lot of them are married with wives and husbands, and I think it's always a struggle to balance it.
