Speaker unverified: uncertainty

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…In my prior life, I was trying to do that for a living. I totally agree with everything you're saying. You guys vote with your feet. You only have one of those moments in the first three minutes of a pitch once, twice, or maybe zero times a year. The rest of the days can get depressing. No. You can learn something in every moment. The amazing thing about the job is every day, people come in and talk to you about something they're experts in. Or you can help someone who is great. Maybe you don't see it entirely but someone who's fantastic can help them. They'll teach you something and you'll learn something. You'll just ask questions, they'll tell you, and you'll learn. There's a firm that shall remain nameless who came in. They said, why don't you have a clock on your wall? I'm like, I don't know. Because then maybe we're in a meeting, we'll look at it, and it's not so good. This person said, no, we move all our clocks six minutes forward. If it's a bad meeting, we can get out. That's a good way to deal with it. We didn't do that. People suggested this. Anytime you go to a venture firm, check the clock on the wall, look at yours, and then you know are they playing the game? I was looking at it earlier, and David and I made a comment to each other that is a really subtle way to put a clock in the room, but it doesn't work.…

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