Alda Leu Dennis's 3 tips for fantastic relationships with founders inspired by her partner Garry Tan

Anyone else that you wanna mention in that, or specifically Peter Thiel?

You know, Peter's fantastic, and certainly my partner Gary Tan is a fantastic investor as well. And he did it in a really fantastic way by building out his reputation, by building out his relationships with founders and trying to be hands-on and helping them. And that's something that I've tried to do with working with some of my portfolio companies is be available and be caring. Be high integrity and, you know, most importantly, try to be helpful.

Thanks so much for sharing. I always find it interesting to ask other investors who their inspirations are, who they've worked with most closely, and try and build that net around how you shape your investment philosophy. It's really interesting to hear that you apply your contrarian approach to investing in spaces where there's overlooked opportunity.

No, I was going to say, you know, I think that what I've noticed about really strong investors is that they trust their gut. And I know that when I was starting out investing, which, you know, wasn't