Alex

"I really felt like I learned how to learn. Really well, which is something that I've always valued in life."

"One of the main difficulties is coming together around how to compare apples to apples in this thing called impact."

"I always try to have one thing that I'm trying to get done that day, and that could be reviewing different investment memos, or honing our impact criteria and operational strategy, or taking six interviews for any position that we have."

"excellent communication skills, being able to quickly and concisely convey the truth of a situation"

"I love meeting different people in different funds and the entrepreneurs; each idea has some of the most passionate people in the world surrounding that field."

"Maintaining some level of mental health and spaciousness. I think throughout what candy total overload."

"Hopefully at the end of the day helping people and plants and animals and our ecosystems. Is really satisfying."

"the most common thread amongst investors...is to be able to basically rely on other people's opinions and learn and learn who who to trust"

"The most effective way to communicate is just like brutal honesty at every single corner."

"The way to do that would be interviewing, doing informational interviews, using your dot edu domain or whatever to want to learn about the industry and genuinely just try to learn about it."

"If it gives you energy at the end of the day then that that all like pick you up through it."

"So I think you know if you can follow the fun times whatever that is and not get too mired in. You know and then then that's that's good."

"Even if it's the hard thing, you know, so Yeah, I would say it's it's maintaining that that sense of that practice throughout work."