AlphaSense on The 10X Capital Podcast

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It's a lot of hard work. I mean, it's just relationship building. You know, it's being present. Leading from the front? It's absolutely leading from the front. It's volunteering vulnerability. It's admitting when I'm wrong as soon as I feel like I am wrong or changing my mind in the span of a one hour conversation where I had a help view, and my team convinced me otherwise. It is expressing that vulnerability. I've told the story of my upbringing, and in some cases, I get a little tearful about that. It's not manufactured. It's real. It's leading from the front that way so that my team's a safe space, and that yields far better investment decisions because I've had teammates who I would call pathological optimists. I'm the left tail guy, and they pitch me an idea. I start looking at all the things that can go wrong. They say, your left tail's raging. I get it. Those are all good points, but let me give you the positive argument.