Mark has been an entrepreneur and professional investor for most of his adult life. His perspective on investing and the founder journey is flavored by an empathy for the difficulty that starting a company entails but also enthusiasm for how amazing it can be when everything ultimately goes right.    There is lots in this podcast for both entrepreneurs and aspiring VCs. Mark offers his perspective on what it means to be entrepreneur friendly. He divulges how VC firms reward top performers and provide a feedback loop for underperformers as well. He shares the investing themes he is currently excited about but also reveals how those themes tend to emerge across the firm. In a role he describes as "half psychologist and half bartender," Mark also talks about portfolio construction when he feels "every company is gonna be the next Google" at the time of investment.