Context: I met Alex during fundraising and he's since become an investor in our Series A. I (and the CEO) talk to him pretty often; probably once every week or two. My one-liner summary of Alex is "probably smarter than I am". He thinks about companies the way you'd imagine an *investor* would (structural scaling issues, limits to the flywheel, subtle unit economics issues that'll blow up in your face at scale and be hard to fix, etc). During diligence he asked by far the most *good* questions, digging in to the business (I mean, it was seed stage, so how hard can you really dig in). He operates at the mental model level / strategy level, not the execution level (fire this person, here's how you should do perf reviews), but luckily knows it (he's fond of saying "well, I guess that part is harder than VCs think it is huh"). So, I call him "smarter than I am" because he's thinking at that layer of abstraction all the time, and I'm not. Plus he's super smart (but many people say that about investors when they're not actually that smart, and I wanted to say something specific about Alex). I would 100% work with him again.

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