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There's like an anecdote

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here that I like, which is...

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I remember reading maybe

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ten or twenty years ago

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about this pottery class

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experiment where a

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professor basically told

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half the class, Okay.

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You're gonna be graded

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on, like, one piece of

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pottery you make, so

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just make it really good.

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And then the other class...

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The other half of the

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class, he basically

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said, make as many

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pieces as you can, and

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you're just graded on quantity.

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But that second group

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actually ended up having

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the better, more

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creative pieces because...

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Like, through repetition

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and learning and iteration.

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And so I think there's

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a lot of that to venture.

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Like, there's a lot of

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stuff that, you know,

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maybe it fits the

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pattern, so you should

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meet with them, but

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there's a lot of stuff

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that doesn't meet the pattern.

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You should still meet,

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you know, a good number

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of those because maybe

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it expands how you think.

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Maybe you find companies

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that, you know, on

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paper, you weren't sure

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you'd invest in, but

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they end up being great

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investment opportunities.

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So I think just, like,

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quantity of meetings and

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companies that you

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engage with is really important.