get to see all aspects of business not just one area.

And you try to join one that has really, really strong and

really smart people in it.

And people that you are inspired by people that you want to learn from and

be with, right.

When you find it, you go there, and you just have to ignore the salaries and

other such things that are just distractions in your path, right.

That just get you off the right road to success, you have to ignore all that and

join the most amazing team of people that you can find,

working on something that you believe in.

Well I mean, I was an entrepreneur first before I was an investor.

It's difficult for me to imagine a path into venture any other kind of investing,

any other kind of early stage investing without the self going through

the experience of building a business.

There are some exceptions of course, and there are multiple ways to get there, and

I know there are some great investors who'd never started a company.

But the way that I understand is to be an entrepreneur.

So work in some real estate startups, start your own company.

If it fail, start another one, get to some level of success, right.

And then start writing angel checks, trying to be really helpful,

build a good reputation.

And then perhaps join the fun we can start a fund as a future

investor that's the path that I took.

I suppose you could instead go to business school, and then try to be an associate

and a fund, and get caught with few fellow a little bit and do the very stress

screening pre-meetings and learn that way, and perhaps that's a good path also.

But I suspect, it's going to be difficult to really command the respect of

the entrepreneurs if you haven't gone through that experience.

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