Jared Weinstein

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"John Winkle Reed is such a special person and he was special for Thrive in our early days where we, you know, as I said, we tried to learn from others who had done things, but John was like there in the weeds with us and he's a um he now leads TPG."

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"Yes, I think and and there were people, you know, there was Tiger Global that what they had built was pretty inspiring um in the kind of 2010 times. I was a student of what people had done and I would go and ask people if I could sit in on their Monday meetings or if and the good thing was we were we were not a threat to anyone at the time and and we were also curious and wanted to partner and maybe write a small check along a Sequoia or Tiger"

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"I remember when early days of Thrive when Chris called me and said we had passed on Twitch and he said, 'We're making a mistake.' And I said, 'Well, you've done a really poor job of articulating why this is interesting and let's talk about it because I'm not hearing it.' And so, I'm not saying it's uninteresting. I actually believe in your conviction, but the rest of the team isn't deep in the space"

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"Nathan came into Thrive, you know, uh Josh and Nabil had known him when they were at Harvard Business School and stayed in touch with him. Nathan is um is like a Yoda kind of figure. Like there's just so much wisdom in Nathan and he um he sees things very clearly. he's very strategic and he he sees all the dimensions of organizations and you know a person not only was dean and of Harvard Business School but he's been on boards of massive companies."

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"I had almost gone to kind of do a like a COO track at a hedge fund at Viking Global and I was like I was interested but I didn't know"

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"there was Tiger Global that what they had built was pretty inspiring um in the kind of 2010 times"

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"There was entertainment, there was fashion, there was healthcare. when we started Oscar, there was just and so like I think our core competency was perhaps to be a like interesting way of thinking about enabling these traditional industries"

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"when Will left for Stripe, like is this really a crisis? Like, doesn't feel like a crisis based on, you know, seeing what I saw at the White House"

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"I tried to fight that. I mean, I did never wanted us to apply for the Midas list, for example, because I thought that we had all worked on deals and maybe so and so had sourced it and someone had supported on underwriting and someone else had helped win it"