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minutes at mercury.com. Welcome to the second episode of the property pod special series covering the

future of entrepreneurship and last week's episode we answered your questions about work-life

balance, raising capital for your business, and what makes a good entrepreneur.

Here's the bottom line. The founder is the one that went home to their spouse and said,

Yeah, work was really hard this month.

It really sucked.

I'm working my ass off.

I realize I can't see you or the kids that much.

And in exchange for working my ass off, we get to pay the company $100,000 this month

because we need to invest to keep the company alive.

That is called a founder, and most people are not willing to do that. I've raised over a billion

dollars for my companies and special purpose vehicles and I think I'm really good

at it and I've always found it really, really hard.

I just got a kiss a lot of frogs, make a ton of contacts, call people meeting after meeting to find out, oh, they loved it, but they're not going to

invest for the five.

I just always, I've always found fundraising really, really difficult.

If you want to have a more sane job and balance then I think you're going to have to take a job

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