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I’m also proud of the companies I backed that might not have had the greatest financial return, but were culturally relevant. For example, I wrote the first and second check into Venmo – and then I got my dad to write the third check because no one would give them money. The financial return was fine, but it was a great cultural investment.

But with SaaS + fintech, a vertical SaaS company can capture a customer’s traditional software spend as well as the spend on employee and financial services.

I’ve long believed that we were never meant to stay in one place. The world is big, and as humans we are meant to explore it. A desire for adventure has fueled me since my teen years when I enrolled in online high school and, for the first time, had the freedom to be anywhere.

In the end, what’s most meaningful is creating positive, uplifting outcomes for human experiences and human relationships. Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple, and it’s that hard.