“It used to be the case that you'd have a CFO of an investment bank or a senior portfolio manager of a fund, and they would be the ones brought in to mentor a startup entrepreneur. … But I have now begun to observe that the trend is moving in the opposite direction. And the 25-year-old CEO has as much to teach the 55-year-old COO as the other way around. … reverse mentorship is a huge trend that I am seeing across the board.”

Well, let me just set the stage here by saying I love trafficking at both ends of the spectrum, which is to say, I spend a lot of time with C-suite executives of public companies, and I learn about their pressures, their opportunities, what they're struggling with, what's going great, all that kind of stuff. And at the same time, I mentor and invest in entrepreneurs who are often seeking to do the disruption. And the one thing that I would say is which has been truly fascinating is that it used to be the case that, you know, you'd have a CFO of an investment bank or a portfolio manager, a senior portfolio manager of a fund, and they would be the ones who would be brought in to mentor a startup entrepreneur. And that still happens, of course. But I have now begun to observe that the trend is moving in the opposite direction. And the 25-year-old CEO has as much to teach the 55-year-old COO as it is the other way around. And that is because, no big surprise, everybody's talking about AI, right? It's the only thing people want to talk about. AI, though, is truly relitigating so many business processes, so many industries, so many ways of doing business that to some extent, people who have their finger on the…