The ten-second question about a founder's next company

But Matt, at the same time, you are surrounded by quite ambitious people, high achievers. What do think your bias is in that set up? Because you have repeat founders that are amazingly successful and then they, here we go, we do another quantum product as an example. And at this moment, it's humanly so natural. to say, of course I'm going to just invest, of course I'm going to be a part of this. But then I have a feeling your deal flow is huge enough. And what is your filter? Like how do you apply your filter? In a way, it covers your very own blind spots at the same time.

Yeah. I my filter is I don't look just here in Cambridge or in Boston or New England or on the Northeast. I look wherever the opportunities are and find really interesting people, whether again, they're in Stockholm or Indonesia or Kenya or London or wherever it is. And, and again, I have a thesis on very particular spaces that I'm active in.

Hmm.

And I bring in people that know the technology a little bit more than my, if I have blind, those are my blind spots. But, ⁓ you know, what I really, what I tend to really lean into when I'm looking for, these founders is really people who are intellectually curious, like they could have all the money in the world and all the success in the world. And, and I always say to them, You have, you have 10 seconds to answer this question. If you weren't doing what you're doing right now, what would, what would be your next company? And the really good founders always know what that next company would be. And so there's, there's a real zeal for people who are great builders. Like, I, met, Chad Rigetti, ⁓ and a Dalia who, ⁓ started a Segaldry, which is AI or a quantum computing company, really trying to solve the issue of the physical limitations of AI compute. And he was presenting with 140 other people at Y Combinator. And I met with him after. And I saw his last name. I'm like, this guy is, this is like the Thomas Edison in this particular domain. And