Give before you ask: when meeting founders and partners, focus on helping them first, trusting goodwill will come back to you. Build a firm meant to outlive its founders, not one that shuts down in a few years.
The other 2 things that are really important for Pear is that we really believe in giving before we ask. So it's like if you meet somebody, whether it's a founder, an LP, an executive, whoever it is, just first think about what can you do for them rather than what can they do for you. And then if, you know, the world, there is some karma and some people will come back, you know, so that's really helped us in helped me for sure in building my own deal flow and getting folks to be supportive to my companies, et cetera. That's been a part of it, which is important. The second thing that was important to Pejman and I was to build a firm that would outlast the two of us. We didn't wanna just build something and shut it down, which is something that, you know, it's actually absolutely, you know, viable and respectable thing to do.
Paige of Behind Genius driving an AI electric train in St. Louis (Intramotev Visit)
