00:53:27 · Ev Randle
[00:53:27] S0: Yeah. I I mean, I I wake up every day and I, like, pinch myself because I I've just been so unbelievably lucky and fortunate to, as you said, work with a lot of the people that have, defined the history of venture capital and growth investing, and not only have they been extremely good at their job, but basically every single one of them has been a wonderful person. I feel like I learn something different from every single one of them, and so if you take a Napoleon Tau who is a GP at Founders Fund who runs the growth investing practice at Founders Fund, I I learned a ton about investing with him, but the most important thing that I learned from Napoleon was his focus on family and work, and he had a very simple life. He do podcasts. He doesn't network. He doesn't try to spend a bunch of time with other investors. He goes to work. He works really, really hard, and then he spends time with his family, and it's like this beautiful, simple life, and he loves both spending time with his family and working with the Founders Fund team. And it was something that made me realize, wow, and just helped me prioritize just my time and how I think about the important things in my life. I think another one now is I mean, currently Eric Vishri, I think, just an incredible role model and leader within Benchmark. Think he is someone who, obviously, you look at his he's number three on the Midas list this year. If you look at his results, he's best of the best. He is a Mount Rushmore venture capitalist at this point. But you spend an hour or two hours, however long, with him, and he is just an extremely kind, hardworking, completely normal person, where it's it's clear that he's unbelievably smart, but he's almost unassuming in like, he's not trying to prove anything to you. He's not trying to make you feel small or make you feel like he's the smartest person in the room. He's worked really hard, he works really smart, and he just brings like a kindness and like a normalcy to his conversations and his workings with his entrepreneurs and his partners in this room that motivates me and inspires me to do more of the same, where it's like there's not some alchemy to doing this job really, really well if you work hard and you kind of know the direction that you need to go, you're a great partner to entrepreneurs, and you work really hard for them.
00:55:43 · Ev Randle, Molly O'Shea, Molly O'Shea
That ultimately is the job, and if you just do that and then get some lucky breaks over your career, you can end up being one of the best VCs of all time. So those are the two that come to mind, mostly because I think they've taught me more about lessons outside of the day to day work than inside it, but I think every single person I've worked with, I've been very fortunate to do so because they've all taught me so much. [00:56:07] S1: Amazing. That's a sophisticated answer compared to the typical growth investor that chooses Charlie Munger. [00:56:17] S0: Yeah, unfortunately, unlike David Senra, I had never had dinner with Charlie Munger otherwise, maybe it'd be Charlie instead. [00:56:23] S1: Oh, amazing, this is a great place to end. Thank you so much, I had so much fun talking everything about AI, and who knows what actually happened. [00:56:29] S0: Exactly. That's the best part. You can look back at this in a year and I've probably been What? Wrong on [00:56:34] S1: What? What isn't the agent anymore? I don't know. [00:56:36] S0: It'll be some new term. [00:56:38] S1: Well, thank you so much, Ev. [00:56:39] S0: Yeah. Thank you, Molly. It's been great. [00:56:40] S2: Hey. It's Molly. If you enjoy our interviews, check out our newsletter, sorcery.vc, where we deliver a once a week top deals and tech headlines email and also go deeper on our podcast interviews. Subscribe to Sorcery today, and don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen. Link in description to sign up.