David Rosenthal: belief

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…You can tell me if this is mutual, but I looked up to you because you were doing a thing that was mysterious to me, which was venture capital. I was a software engineer. I got hired to work at a venture firm to do some incubation work, but I didn't know anything about the real job of venture capital. Here's David, someone who's just a few years older than me doing that thing but in my peer age group. I could lean over and be like, what are they talking about? I felt like a fraud in a lot of ways. I repressed this deep down. If I'm honest with myself, I think I felt like a fraud as a VC. I went to Princeton. I was a French literature major. I worked on Wall Street. I worked briefly at the Wall Street Journal, and then I became a venture capitalist. Have you ever coded, or have you ever done anything?…

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