There are three types of advice investors can give you: business, investor market, and personal Most investors are decent at the first two.  They’ve seen a lot of companies and they obviously know what’s attractive to the market Both skills come from pattern-matching and running in the right circles - basically spreading your time.  Both are also losing value.  AI is rewriting basically everything so patterns are less relevant, and everyone is in the same companies with the same information The third kind of advice requires the opposite - spending an extreme amount of time understanding the founders and tailoring your advice to what they’re uniquely good and bad at I’d argue this type of advice matters the most.  If founders have an outsized impact on their companies, and founders differ from each other far more than companies do, then advice tailored to the individual should have an outsized effect on outcomes This is what @krisfredrickson is best at. @gabepereyra and I first met Kris in late 2023 and he invested personally in our series B. For the past three years, he has helped us: - hire multiple key folks, because he knew who Gabe and I would work well with - walk away from what would have been a disastrous acquisition, because he knew we were looking for an easy way out of a harder problem - translate our pitch for fundraising, because he knew the company inside and out - keep going when things weren’t working, because he knew what would motivate us Most importantly, Kris was one of the first to believe in me personally, not just Harvey Very grateful to continue to partner with him