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Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 1:10:17 Harry Stebbings Brian Singerman, who invests in funds and then invests in the companies beneath those funds, has a rule that if the manager's like, balls to the wall, I am all in on this company, he'll automatically write the check. 2 times in the scene
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:31 Harry Stebbings What do you say to a Brian Singerman of the world who always said that I'm not smart enough to predict the future, but I, my job is to pick founders that are able to do so.
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:49 David George and, you know, thankfully, Jennifer and Brian did the, the early stage round.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:06:40 Harry Stebbings It was Brian Singerman who taught me about the last double and how, as you said on your angriels, going from 18 to 36 is not actually that fundamentally
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:01 Harry Stebbings What I really don't like with defense is actually what Brian Singerman told me about what makes Andrew so special, which is the complementary skill set of the founding team, you know, whether it be GTM into, like, defense and government,…
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:40 Harry Stebbings I always remember Brian Seaman teaching me that, um, capital concentration limits are the enemy of great venture returns, and that's why they have 33% of their fund in Airbnb.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:51 Harry Stebbings Do you think they can, I'm sorry, I would like happily say like Brian. 4 times in the scene
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:46 Harry Stebbings I love Brian Singerman at Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:22 Harry Stebbings Brian Singerman has said to me before they've done it.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:43 Harry Stebbings Brian Singerman always told me the enemy of great venture returns is capital concentration limits in an LPA.
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:25 Harry Stebbings Brian Singerman always taught me the value of the final double or the next double. 3 times in the scene
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:46 Harry Stebbings They will all be screaming, okay, but if I don't do these venture funds, I'm going to lose that trusted relationship with Mamoun at KP, with Danny at index, with Brian at founders, you name it.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:47 Harry Stebbings Brian Singerman said to me in a show once, the enemy of great venture returns is capital concentration limits on a per fund basis. 2 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:31 Harry Stebbings The counter to that, if we were kind of just jousting, it actually would be, you know, Brian's saying when Austin's talked to me before about the value of 3 times in the scene
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:33 Zachary Bookman I have tremendous respect for Brian and Trey and what they've done.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:05 Harry Stebbings I remember Brian Singerman at Founders Fund is a friend of mine, and he once told me that Founders Fund's great performance lies in the truth, but that fundamentally they do not have capital constraints on a per company basis, which means…
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:00 Matt Grimm And, um, Singerman himself personally, uh, like multiple times went to bat for us and said, you're absolutely insane.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:21 Harry Stebbings I remember Brian Singerman said to me on the show that the enemy of great venture returns is capital concentration limits on a per company basis. 2 times in the scene
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:36 Harry Stebbings You know, we've had many, you know, Brian Singerman from Founders Fund on, and, and Delian, um, and they both said, literally, the best founders do not need VCs, period.
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:41 Harry Stebbings We have had many people from Founders Fund on in the past, including your Brian Singamans of the world, who very clearly has the belief that the best founders do not need help. 2 times in the scene
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:32 Harry Stebbings And it just makes me think of like venture value add, you know, Brian Singerman founders fund very clearly have the thesis that the best founders do not need your help.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:57 Delian Asparouhov I mean, I feel this very much so, you know, sort of today, my ability to, we can talk about the, uh, you know, so Brian related questions on how does, you know, VAR to make me a worse VC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:24 Delian Asparouhov Peter, which is either sort of Brian, Singerman, um, Trey Stevens, Napoleon, you know, sort of Ta, all three of them, um, began as either interns or relatively junior investors at Founders Fund over a decade ago. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:17 Delian Asparouhov Trey and Brian are more than welcome to take their approach of, you know, sort of write a check to a founder, but then largely, you know, sort of be hands off from there because the best founders, um, you know, don't ask for help.
- ▶ 1:03:05 Delian Asparouhov You know, maybe again, go back to, you know, sort of one of Brian's, you know, classic isms internally is, you know, the only rule of founders fund is that there are no rules.
- ▶ 1:15:53 Delian Asparouhov I mean, I, I probably had at least, you know, sort of six, you know, uh, you know, uh, Singerman, you know, sort of one-on-ones where he has to be like telling what the fuck. 3 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:13 Kevin Hartz It was, you know, it was Peter and Brian Zingerman and Napoleon that took, um, what did they take? 4 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:32 Harry Stebbings It was interesting, Brian Singerman said, actually, they deliberately don't have any form of investment committee or any investment meeting, because
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:17 Mark Suster I'm not Bryan Singerman or Peter Thiel or, you know, any of these guys who have been able to plow a 152 hundred million dollars into a single company and be right consistently.
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:06 Bastian Lehmann When we, when we started out, when Postmates started out, this thing sounded so crazy that the only people that wanted to give us money were Brian Singerman and Peter Thiel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:03 Bastian Lehmann When I, when, when the company was, was bought, when the deal got closed, I remember having coffee with Brian Singerman, and we both lived in Noe Valley at the time, so, and I was curious. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:37 Bastian Lehmann And after a while, when we got external investors that were not just Scott Bannister, who was, who was the first on the board and Brian sort of, I had to learn that part of that
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:42 Trae Stephens Folks that are still at, at Founders Fund today, Lauren Gross, who's our COO, Brian Singerman, who you just had on your podcast a couple of weeks ago.
- ▶ 11:43 Trae Stephens You know, Brian Singerman gave me the best advice I got in my first month at Founders Fund when he said, the only thing that you should be doing for the next year is meeting with every single company you can.
- ▶ 33:09 Harry Stebbings Do you think about downside protection given the size of checks you write, or is it all upside maximization in the words of Brian?
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:34 David Clark I mean, you wouldn't invest in Brian Singerman, where there's a single, where Founders Fund have a single, you know, single GPs can go and do deals. 2 times in the scene
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:23 Harry Stebbings Yeah, I remember I had Brian Singerman on the show from Founders Fund, and he said we consistently underestimate the power of the next double, and it's the move from five to ten billion dollars.
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:48 Harry Stebbings Um, I have Brian Singerman on the show from Founders Fund, and he said that great, great venture funds are due to capital concentration in the best companies, and capital concentration limits are the enemy of great returns. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:40 Harry Stebbings I said founders fund, and I said it because of something that Brian Singerman told me, which is like, we are unparalleled in the willingness to have extreme revenue, extreme capital concentration on a per company basis, which means we…
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:33 Keith Rabois And there's lots of, if you've actually been a founder, if you've been a CEO like Peter has, if you've been a CEO and founder like Abin, if you've been a co-founder like Trey, you just know why.
- ▶ 1:03:59 Keith Rabois Brian's been around for a while.
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:12 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Brian Singerman before this, and he said, there's nothing he loves more than talking to you about bluntly the state of the world and how you see kind of macro geopolitics today.
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:58 Harry Stebbings And when I think about Brian Singerman and Pat Grady,
20VC Special: How To Fundraise Like a Pro: How to Size and Price a Round, How to Create FOMO and Urgency in a Fundraise, How to Structure Angel Allocations, The 7 Deadly Sins of Fundraising Decks, The 3 Signs a Potential Investor is Bad News
- ▶ 17:18 Harry Stebbings Brian Singerman at Founders Fund said on the show recently about how he was unable to do his job in COVID as he could not meet founders in person, and I think it's so important to meet your lead investor in person before signing the term…
Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:31 Harry Stebbings Brian Seaman, obviously your former colleague from Founders Fund said the biggest enemy of venture returns is capital concentration limits. 2 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:31 Harry Stebbings I have Brian Singerman on the show from Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:52 Harry Stebbings I remember, like, Brian Singerman from Founders Fund said, um, the biggest enemy of great venture returns is capital concentration limits on a per company basis, and that Founders Fund actually have done so well because they have exceeded…
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:18 Harry Stebbings I remember having Brian Singerman on the show, and he said the great line of capital concentration limits, the enemy of great returns.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:46 Keith Rabois So I don't think about it too much when the growth team, my colleagues, Brian Stigerman, Peter, Napoleon,
- ▶ 9:37 Keith Rabois And the reason why was Peter and Brian and some extent, a few other partners were leading
- ▶ 32:24 Keith Rabois The good news about having colleagues, Brian Singerman, particularly Peter Thiel and Napoleon who are excellent at powering money into companies is I can kind of leave it up to them.
- ▶ 37:26 Keith Rabois Uh, identifying and hiring potential investors as, you know, we age, Peter, Brian, me, let's say the GPs in the venture fund.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 43:51 Harry Stebbings I have Brian Seaman on the show from Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 21:51 Harry Stebbings But, uh, my question to you is, I spoke to Brian Singman before the show, and he said, the enemy of great venture returns is capital concentration limits on a per company basis. 2 times in the scene
20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
- ▶ 39:26 Harry Stebbings Episode on Andrew with Brian Singerman at Founders Fund on Wednesday.
20VC: Aleph's Michael Eisenberg on Why Generalists Over Specialists, Why Boutique Smaller Firms Over Multi-Stage Firms, Portfolio Construction Theory, Capital Concentration Limits and How To Think Through Reserve Allocations with Market Cycles in Mind?
- ▶ 21:27 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the word outliers a minute ago, and I spoke to Brian Seaman at Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- ▶ 15:00 Harry Stebbings It does make me think of something that Brian Singerman said to me one day when he was like, the enemy of great venture returns is limits on the concentration of capital per company. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Kevin Hartz, to Brian Singerman, and Catherine Boyle.
- ▶ 3:15 Harry Stebbings I've had so many great things from Brian Singerman, from Kevin Hartz, and so many other people, so thank you so much for joining me. 4 times in the scene
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 11:31 Katherine Boyle The flip side of that is someone like Brian Singerman, who I think is one of the best reactive investors in the Valley, where he has no theses, doesn't think about the future, and just listens to the founder and the story and uses his own… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:35 Harry Stebbings I know Brian at Founders Fund talks about kind of complex coordination, especially around regulation, being the secret to defensibility.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings To Joe Lonsdale, Elad Gill, Trey Stephens, Brian Singerman, John Luttig, and Ben Schelf for some amazing questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 3:10 Harry Stebbings As I just said to you, I've heard so many good things from Joe Lonsdale, from Brian at Founders Fund, from Trey, from John Luttig.
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings I do want to say a huge thank you to Brian Singerman at Founders Fund and Spike Lipkin for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from many different people from Drew on your team and Kimmy, and then also Brian and Trey at Founders Fund.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings Now, this episode really was a team effort, I have to admit, so a huge thanks do go to David and Andreessen, Manu at K-Nine, Arjun at Tri, Brian at Thrive, Henry at Carter, and Paul at Front for some fantastic questions, suggestions today.
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 5:49 Harry Stebbings I actually spoke to Brian Seaman at Founders Fund the other day, and he said that startups are a game of upside maximization.
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 8:23 Harry Stebbings I have Brian Singerman from Founders Fund on the show, and he mentioned actually his excitement around regulated industries because it provides that defensibility and moat to those that achieve it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings He then developed next generation DNA sequencing technology at Halcyon Molecular, and if you understood 10% of the above words, congratulations, you significantly beat me, but I do also want to give a big hand to the wonderful Kevin Hartz…
- ▶ 30:44 Harry Stebbings As I said, such a pleasure to have Aaron on the show there, and a huge hand to him for giving up his time today to appear on the show, and a big thank you to Brian Singerman and Kevin Hartz at Founders Fund for making the introduction to…
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings I'd also like to say a huge thank you to Brian Singerman at Founders Fund for the intro to Mario today, without which this episode
- ▶ 2:30 Harry Stebbings Mario, such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard such great things from Brian at Founders Fund and Josh at Thrive.
- ▶ 4:36 Harry Stebbings I have another question from an investor in Brian at Founders Fund, who says, with regards to kind of the meta element of the market, such a complex space it is, why is it
- ▶ 26:16 Harry Stebbings So fantastic to have Mario on the show there, and again, I'd like to say a huge thank you to Brian Singham and her Founders Fund for the intro to Mario, without which this episode would not have been possible, and if you'd like to see more…