Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
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Provider. Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will no
Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will not be too e