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1325.101 - 1350.124 Shardul Shah

There were very few companies that were actually 3 to 5x over 3 to 5 years. And so we kind of accepted the fact that we're not value investors. We're venture investors at growth stages. We're driven by high conviction. And as a consequence, when we're building our investment cases at growth, we never, it's like, it's super dangerous, I think, to say there's a safe 2x. There's no such thing.