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I really want to ask like as a mentor, as an investor

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How, what would be the

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The elements for you, to choose somebody to work with

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Let's say that personality that proactive taught you

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Yeah

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Okay

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By far the single most important thing is teachability

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Will they listen if someone who might know more of them says some should be different?

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I guarantee you, virtually every investor I know

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if you come across as stubborn or unwilling to change your views

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in the face of maybe someones informed opinion. It's over, nothing's going to happen

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It makes perfect sense too

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Whether you're in school or work, even playing a game with somebody

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you know, if you're really stubborn and it has to be your way and I say my way or the highway

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it doesn't work that way

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It's not how the world works

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Community's function through cooperation not through having a position sticking to it

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no matter what

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That's the biggest thing

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Then after that, you want to see, are they clear and concise about

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Again, the problem they're trying to solve in the solution, they think will solve it

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What is the demand like in the market?

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How much do people really want this problem solved?

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Competitors. Who else is doing it?

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It's unlikely that nobody else is trying to solve the problem you're trying to solve

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Because there's so many people doing so many things

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A lot of folks think no one else is doing this

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If I hear that it's over

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because I guarantee you, just because you don't know about it

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Doesn't mean it isn't happening

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A lot of things happen in stealth

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and you're never going to know until it comes to market

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So you should always assume others are doing it

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You have to be on, you have to be the best

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at what you're trying to do to survive the threat, they might represent

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And then I would say the clarity about how realistic are you

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about the actual process involved in developing your solution

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That's the start to finish

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So it's problem, you're trying to solve

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The solution, you're trying to do with. Who else is doing it?

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What's the qualification of the team that you've assembled around you

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even if it's just you

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And then how much time and money and risk will it involve to get to some stage of?

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Here's what we're trying to do.

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We think it works well enough

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Please give it a try

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Do some beta testing, get the feedback and improve it and then get ready to release

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I feel like what we normally call a coachable, right?

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Exactly, same thing, same thing

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Yeah, coachable makes it become more like a border

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because sometimes it's not about right or wrong

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It is about like, let's open another perspective and - right - do something about it

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if not why we need to be here together, right?

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So if someone gives some perspective or help you to have another perspective

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let's do something about it to test it out and co-create that journey

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right, so it's really two things

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Is someone willing to listen to somebody else's opinion?

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And are they willing to admit?

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They don't know at all themselves

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That's a big, that's a big one

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That's a lot. We call it know-it-alls, lots of know-it-alls out there

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Even I've been accused of being a know-it-all but I think that's wrong

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I just feel like it is same

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Maybe the same as but I would look at it as somebody

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who partly be honest enough for with themselves to know that where they are now

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and what they want to do and whether they want to go

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and then there's somebody who co-create the journey with them

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and they should make the best out of that, instead of sticking to the previous patterns

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Otherwise there's no reason to actually having somebody else to co-create the journey