“By just asking those positive leading questions… you are modeling positive expressivity… activating all of those closet optimists to actually speak up.”
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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · John Armitage: How He Invests, Building Egerton, and What Worries Him About AI
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When a partner suggests an investment, spend a weekend researching, ask and answer questions, build a model, and add to the position only after greater conviction
“By just asking those positive leading questions… you are modeling positive expressivity… activating all of those closet optimists to actually speak up.”
“If you get asked, say, two questions, one's a legal advice question, one's a commercial advice question, perhaps answer them as separate emails. One, so this is legal advice, this is privileged. And two, here's my answer to your commercial question.”
“We take all of the data sources you have, extract out the key entities, build relationships between these entities, and make sure that when you ask a question, we give you a complete and accurate answer.”
“We have service bot, for example. You can ask questions. ... I could just ask all the questions and get all the answers whenever I needed any time of day.”
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