Wallet Max Planet Positive Podcast™ with Investor Jessie Lam, AiiM Partners

So you've built a global career across New York, Hong Kong, Poland, Bahrain, as I said in my intro, what's the pivotal moment that shaped how you think about capital and risk today? Or has it always been quite similar all along your journey.

No, definitely not.

I mean, now from week to week, month to month, day to day, it's all different, right? You're calculating things.

So that's also the thing is you can't just sit within your financial models, right? You can't just sit within a certain framework that you have set up for yourself.

It used to be, oh, okay, I invest in you today.

And then a year from now, I see whether my models are right or wrong or whatever.

But that's not how we operate.

Hour by hour, things are changing.

And so that's something that I think is important to not only be a good investor, but to be a good founder and operator is...

And it's quite easy to be very, very overwhelmed.

How well you are able to synthesize that changing information and its impact into something that you care about, whether it's your portfolio or your company, your family, your livelihood, how quickly you're able to synthesize that and use that information is your edge today.

And so that doesn't mean that your brain is just faster than everybody else's.

Some people are right.

There are definitely genius founders out there that that are.

But also, you know, the tools that are at your fingertips to be able to help you.

How do you use your team? How your team uses those tools? AI is one of those tools right now.

So like in the framework of until we hit a GI, AI does not replace a person.

AI allows the person, in my opinion, to just do way more output than before.

But I see it as a tool to enable us, not necessarily, hey, let's fire 10,000 people, especially on a manufacturing floor, which is where I generally, like, you're not replacing that with AI yet.

It should be used as another input into how you synthesize this data.

Yeah, couldn't agree more.

There are like so many regulatory changes, geopolitical changes, economic challenges.

Now, every day or multiple times during the day, a solid foundation is really important to make those decisions that are long term.

So you're not calculating and changing

on a daily basis.

So you've built a global career across New York, Hong Kong, Poland, Bahrain, as I said in my intro, what's the pivotal moment that shaped how you think about capital and risk today? Or has it always been quite similar all along your journey.

No, definitely not.

I mean, now from week to week, month to month, day to day, it's all different, right? You're calculating things.

So that's also the thing is you can't just sit within your financial models, right? You can't just sit within a certain framework that you have set up for yourself.

It used to be, oh, okay, I invest in you today.

And then a year from now, I see whether my models are right or wrong or whatever.

But that's not how we operate.

Hour by hour, things are changing.

And so that's something that I think is important to not only be a good investor, but to be a good founder and operator is...

And it's quite easy to be very, very overwhelmed.

How well you are able to synthesize that changing information and its impact into something that you care about, whether it's your portfolio or your company, your family, your livelihood, how quickly you're able to synthesize that and use that information is your edge today.

And so that doesn't mean that your brain is just faster than everybody else's.

Some people are right.

There are definitely genius founders out there that that are.

But also, you know, the tools that are at your fingertips to be able to help you.

How do you use your team? How your team uses those tools? AI is one of those tools right now.

So like in the framework of until we hit a GI, AI does not replace a person.

AI allows the person, in my opinion, to just do way more output than before.

But I see it as a tool to enable us, not necessarily, hey, let's fire 10,000 people, especially on a manufacturing floor, which is where I generally, like, you're not replacing that with AI yet.

It should be used as another input into how you synthesize this data.

Yeah, couldn't agree more.

There are like so many regulatory changes, geopolitical changes, economic challenges.

Now, every day or multiple times during the day, a solid foundation is really important to make those decisions that are long term.

So you're not calculating and changing

on a daily basis.