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487: Closing the Confidence Gap with Kelli Thompson

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**Books That Have Impacted My Career **

The books that have impacted my career the most are: 'The Gifts of Imperfection' by Bernay Brown, which helped me in my career by dropping my own BS; 'The Untethered Soul' by Michael Singer, which taught me about inner belief systems and how they affect my work; and 'My Life in Full' by Indra Nui, the former CEO of Pepsi, which provided gorgeous storytelling and imparted valuable career lessons.

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Speaker 2

Is you might have guessed or maybe not. When Britt was referring to the AI skeptic as an investor, that's me. I didn't want to call you out. I'm a huge believer that the big companies are going to make an incredible amount of money on this technology. But as a seed investor, we're mostly seed investors on this call, I think what you're happening in the investment market is you're seeing a bunch of what I'll call not real venture capitalists, but asset managers plowing money into AI because it's easy to plow money into AI. And then you're seeing, and I give you a lot of credit for this, because I know you actually, I consider you a real venture capitalist. And I know you actually deploy a lot of your own money, right? Unlike a lot of these other firms, you actually care about returns, because it's actually your money, as opposed to other people's money. Only real venture capitalists on the more or less. By the way, since I started the

Speaker 1

firm 20 years ago, I've never taken a dollar in fees. There you go. Oh,

Speaker 4

really? I didn't know that.

Speaker 1

It's like we don't make money on fees. This is...

Speaker 2

Yeah. That's why, again, I have a lot of respect, is you're a DPI guy, not an AUM guy. Yep. But again, you actually invest across the spectrum, right? And my kind of thing has been at the extreme of the seed investing.