"I will always take someone's desire to win more so than anything else. But our view is that there's a major difference between being intelligent and being smart, and I think we look for people who are deeply independent in their thought process that have an incredible first principles lens and that are creative enough to imagine things that have never existed before, but analytical enough to be able to understand businesses at any stage and in any sector. One of the things that we have done, I think, very effectively is we've taken people that have started off their careers at places like a Blackstone or a Bridgewater that were trained with a very financial lens, but just realized that it wasn't the right place for them. And I actually think that has enabled us to truly identify people that are so unique in their thinking. They don't know what everyone in our industry is talking about. If you were to sit down with anyone who works at any firm and ask them about artificial intelligence right now, they will likely be able to regurgitate whatever it is that they heard on whatever podcasts they listen to. If you take someone who's thinking about global macro at Bridgewater or distressed debt investing and give them a day to give you their best points of views on whatever topic is interesting to us at Thrive and they're able to come with incredible analysis and articulate it in a very intense debate, that is the type of person that we want at the team." @JoshuaKushner | @patrick_oshag

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