FaceTime

If you want to meet any of the, you know, like really key stakeholders in the, in, in the industry that will help you progress your portfolio, come out to these events, meet them, learn from them.

Um, you know, you get FaceTime with people who have solved for problems that you might wanting to solve as a, as a developer in this space.

So I encourage you to come out and hope to see you there in Montreal.

And we'll be doing four events again next year in 2027.

An American with deep ties to the Middle Eastern leaders said.

So he's less interested about securing any type of peace deal and far more interested in using that FaceTime to solicit more investment into his private equity firm.

There have been fake investigations into Kushner by Democratic members of Congress who really have no interest in pushing for criminal prosecution, and I mean that.

So in 2024, Affinity's chief legal officer, Chad Mizell, told investigators from the Senate Finance Committee that Affinity was funded entirely by a few foreign clients.

Of course, we also have analytics around all of this that we also watch, but being able to actually verbally talk to users and actually see them interact with the product, I think is an underrated skill.

So building these, again, automated ways for us, semi-automated ways, of course, then we actually are in these calls, but semi-automated ways to have more user FaceTime has been super helpful.

I love that level of customer obsession.

And it speaks to being such a small team.

They often take office hours.

Like, these are the things that I have had to learn in raising capital that allow me to kinda negotiate and, like, navigate, right? Tap into where, you know, the head of marketing and the where the head of communication, like what conferences are they speaking at where you can get some one-on-one FaceTime that you may normally not be able to get.

These are the things that I think really kinda stand out in the application process.

And so we go from those 3,000 applications, Rashan, to about 250 semifinalists, and then we take those 250 companies through a three-month cohort-style mentorship program.

So very much aligned with your experience.

Now, the other key practical suggestion that you have pertains to face time, which is interesting because we know that term from the corporate ladder, kind of like a hamster wheel sort of banking, consulting, et cetera.

But what are your tips to both principals and the family office employees on how to engineer the right level of personal interactions or face time? that helps them kind of get to know each other, build trust, develop the right instincts together so they can be successful? How do they do that?

Let me be clear, Peter, in that I'm not referring to the artificial corporate hamster wheel FaceTime in this.

And I do remember at the bank when that was a thing.

And I worked for someone who was particularly difficult.