David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah, thank you. I'll take the compliment. You do need both. You need someone who's staying attuned to, maybe this new thing everyone is talking about is a breakthrough, interesting thing. And you also need the, hey, let's pay attention to history. I think someone asked a question in the Slack, do you consider yourselves journalists? If anything, because we've gotten the question, are you analysts, are you journalists, we're certainly not reporters. But I think on that spectrum, we've shifted much more toward historians than journalists. I don't ever expect that we are going to get a story right about something in flight, but hopefully given a couple of months to prepare, we can get the story right about something that's happened over a long period of time with a lot of perspectives where people are willing to share everything they know since the hatchets are buried. Does anyone have the story right on what happened in the OpenAI boardroom right now? I don't think so. I don't think so either. Reflecting on this too, I think, ironically, moving to this role as our and my over the past couple of years official job function and identity of being historian versus venture capitalist investor, has made me a much better investor. Isn’t it the truth?…

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