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#141 CEO Navan, Ariel Cohen: Be Naive!

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Connecting to the Matrix: How VCs Can Help You Make Money

I think that a big thing that VCs that are really good can help you do is, actually I stole this from Mark Andreessen. It's connect to the matrix. So what he describes is this idea that there are a select handful of venture capital firms that when you work with them, you plug into the matrix. And it's very hard to evaluate an investor based on those people. Right? That makes sense because you don't even know that you need those people down the line. But at some point eventually, and by the way, that could also be back channels for talent. Mm-hmm.

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