Most days I stitch together two worlds that rarely speak plainly to each other. Founders living inside the mess of building, and limited partners who need a position they can defend when the cycle turns.

I try to stay humble about what I do not know. I also think humility is often a vice with excellent PR. Still, I keep the nerve to call a bluff when I see one.

Realistically, I am a pessimist. I choose to live as an optimist. Helen Keller put it better than I ever could: “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

I did my MSc in Economics and Business Administration at CBS, and a semester in Sweden at Lund University (LUSEM) on exchange. Technically overseas.