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@jmj on when a Seed fund should break its portfolio construction rules:
"We did Erebor, the $2 billion round. We put a large percentage of one of our funds into that.
We got to know Owen, the CEO, but obviously Palmer is a big part of the company.
If we had said at IC, 'No, we can't do that deal, we're a seed fund,' then we would've just eliminated a big part of the market.
And Erebor is, in five months, one of the fastest growing banks of all time.
I said, why would you not put 5 or 10% of your fund into that company?
It just makes sense relative to only doing really early stage investing."