Watching Ramp, Figma, Scale, and Palantir grow over the u years from a distance ...... my takeaway is that when a company is a "talent magnet" for the smartest people in your network, you should invest as much money as you can into it

This is honestly one of the only reasons why you might be at an advantage going into VC out of a school like MIT or Stanford. You have incredible insight into where your smartest peers are going. I use to have this signal a few years out of MIT. Not as much anymore.