Sam Lessin: belief

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…Great. That's a win. Okay. Let's talk about dining. Give us some advice for etiquette during dining. Tip well. Don't not tip, don't tip badly. Don't be super stingy about, "Okay, who ordered the flambe?" Split bills evenly, make things easy for waiters. In general, it's don't order the most expensive thing on the menu. Does it really matter? Especially to an investor, do they really care? No, they don't really care, but they do notice. And you're like, ah, you are the type of person that is truly insensitive to what things cost, even if it doesn't actually matter, and so I think there are things like that. Same with wine. And then I think, look, in the terms of asking, ideally, don't order first because I think if you see how someone ... Are we doing starters? How long is this meal going to be? There's a lot of times in dining situations you don't know. And the more you let someone else set the tone and then match that tone, the better. You kind of want to go middle of the pack to last, if that makes sense. Yeah. So this isn't a situation if someone takes you out to dinner, like it's a VC, another found, someone invites you to dinner.…

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