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Hey, everybody. It's Sunday, time for Sunday school. Molly has got a couple of investments under her belt. She's loving her job. Here we are. It's May.

She's been here making a great impact on the pod for a great months and I've put enough some numbers in the investment category.

So what's your question this week? Molly about being a venture capitalist?

Well, this is so interesting because this is a question I had already had.

And then Justin, producer Justin, read this interesting article in Bloomberg about how Yuri Milner's DST global actually encourages personal investments from partners into early stage companies.

I this had I had previously had a question about like, should we be in the syndicate?

Do we do that? And then also someone a friend was asking me like, do you have to be an invest, do you have to be an LP in your own fund?

Okay. And and I think in venture deals, they talk about how some GPs do in fact have a personal capital responsibility.

So there's a bunch of questions in there, but the first one, let's start with the very first one, which is what's the deal with side investing?

Okay, it's a it's a great question. This is really about communication and outcomes. Okay, let's start with communication.

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