Please welcome our special guest, Nilima Achwal, who’s a Venture Capitalist with global experience building new systems that benefit people at the micro and macro level. Her New Earth Fund is operating based on a novel thesis that, when fully realized, creates a new system upon which a better society can emerge. As Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Please welcome our special guest, Samer Hakoura, who has his own value investing firm. In this episode, we discuss his approach to capital allocation and his background in the family business that led him to the insight that drives his approach.

Please welcome our special guest Murtuza Kutub who was an early employee at Fab and left to build Docker before Docker.

He’s a smart chap who currently works with founders to build software products and is one of our high-growth ecosystem partners. He reached out wanting to interview us on our perspective of product-market fit, how we view investing across venture capital, private equity, and public company funding environments. We discuss a novel approach to high-growth company building, our backgrounds, and our diligence process for the companies we work with.

If you’re a business owner and want to be on Murtuza’s podcast, please reach out, he’s interviewing a few fine folks in the space to help understand the fundamental needs of people building businesses the right way.

In this quick episode we describe why duration of cash flows is so important to world-class investors and the impact of growth on that.