Brian Singerman, every mention
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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…