"It's just as hard to build a small inconsequential thing as it is to build a giant worldchanging thing. You work the same amount of hours and so you might as well go for doing something important. Soc..."

"Welcome to a live private viewing of the Mark and Ben show. Our favorite married couple in venture capital. Yeah, old to be clear old married couple. Yeah, that doesn't get along that well. The the ro..."

"you know, and we were walking into a VC that hadn't changed and one of the key things about it, if you looked at venture capital, um, it was the only asset class that had the same managers persistentl..."

"two was based on a a paper that Mark or an article that Mark wrote called software is eating the world. So in venture capital, you know, from its inception and Andy Rackcliffe did this this wonderful ..."

"just to echo the point about the ability to sort of reorganize and restructure. One of my first meetings in with with you guys about potentially joining the firm was with Katherine Bole and we were ta..."

"evolution, you know, some firms haven't changed at all in the past 10 years, 20 years, and they kind of proud. Yeah. They're proud of sort of sticking to knitting and sticking to their craft. And with..."

"scale effect of an early stage company that that really makes it right. Um, and so if an early if you can make a $5 million investment in a series A or seed of a of an early stage company and you can ..."

"Yeah. People are always, you know, saying, "Oh, it's amazing how much how injucing does so much, but they don't fully appreciate how much we don't do or how much we say no to in terms of uh, you know,..."

"bit about our experimental culture and yes either examples of things that didn't work or just how we think about making sure that we're not being complacent because we're incumbent. Well, you know, I ..."

"or 30 years um you know the sort of accepted conventional wisdom was that founders shouldn't run their own companies right um and and specifically that you know founder can get a company started but t..."

"people lead, you're also still very much in the weeds in areas that you care about to make sure that the culture is is growing in a way that you want as we've scaled to 600 people. Ben, how do you thi..."

"think about succession planning at the firm? Yeah. So, I think succession planning is kind of like a tactic. Um, and look, we've already done succession. I So, the original infra investor in the firm ..."

"intersect. Maybe let's talk about AI and crypto just as an example. Mark, maybe why don't you take a stab at how do you think about the intersection of of these technologies and yeah, I should start w..."

"closing here, how do we make sure that as we get bigger, we don't succumb to innovator's dilemma or how do we make sure that um we're always trying the next new thing or how do you think about where y..."