The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 164 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 4 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Carnegie Mellon's Endowment Backed Kevin Hartz's A-Star
“Kevin Hart's at A-Stars is, is, is a new partner of ours, and he was at Founders Funds for a few years.”
Gurski: Competitor Glow raised $30M from top VCs before Flo launched
“They raised from Anderson Horowitz and Founders Fund, thirty million, almost immediately. They started three years before Floor”
Founders Fund's Trey Stephens Got Into Georgetown After Camping Outside Admissions
“Like there's actually a general partner of founders fund named Trey. We were just at his 40th birthday party. And one thing that was mentioned was that he didn't get into Georgetown the first time. And he literally went and like set up a tent in front of the a…”
Singerman: 2021 Was Founders Fund's Best Year Ever
“In 21, that said, like, You know, we had great, we had our best year ever in 20, 21, right?”
Fishner-Wolfson brought in the anchor LP for Founders Fund's first fund
“I ended up You know, bringing in one of the largest investors who ended up anchoring the first institutional phone.”
Cyan Banister says Founders Fund is one of few firms she'd join
“There's very few venture firms I would join, and Founders Fund is one of them.”
Friedensohn and her husband are Founders Fund's first married portfolio founders
“Some of the benefits are, well, first and foremost, I think we're the first married couple in founders fund portfolios.”
Wang: Scale AI Series C process with Founders Fund took under a week
“I think it was probably less than a week of due process.”
Polychain grew AUM from $4M to over $200M within two years
“Having founded the firm less than two years ago with Four million under management in their initial fund. Polychain now has over two hundred million under management, with backing from the likes of Sequoia, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and USV, just to …”
Founders Fund seed-invested in DeepMind and Oculus before AI/VR hype
“This fund again, before my time had a seed invested in DeepMind before AI became a buzzword, or Oculus in the early seed rounds before VR became a buzzword”
Founders Fund writes checks from $250K to $50M
“If a team member has strong conviction, you know, whether it's a quarter million dollar FF Angel, that's, you know, the minimum amount that generally we invest in this kind of angel vehicle of ours, all the way up to fifty million, we can move quite quickly an…”
Bryan Johnson: OS Fund frequently co-invests with Founders Fund and Lux Capital
“Yeah, we, so quite a few. Like we like DC, VC, Founders Fund, Lux Capital. There's like, there's probably like a dozen or so we love that we love working with. They again are just Great people, good processes, smart minds, and very collaborative.”
Singerman: Joined Founders Fund after Sean Parker introduction during SpaceX deal evaluation
“And that's when I met Sean Parker and we became friends and he. Said, Hey, why don't you check out what we're doing at Founders Fund? And I came in and that's when we were considering a little investment in a company called SpaceX and, you know, said, this is …”
Ramp has raised over $390 million in funding
“To date, Eric has raised over three hundred and ninety million dollars for the company from some of the best, including Thrive, Stripe, Founders Fund, Code Two, and Box Group, to name a few.”
Stebbings: Spike Lipkin raised over $100M for Newfront
“To date, Spike has raised over a hundred million dollars with Newfront for Some of the best in the business, including Founders Fund, Meritech, and of course, the newly founded TwentyVC Fund.”
Alex Mather raised over $139M for The Athletic
“To date, Alex has raised over one hundred and thirty nine million dollars with The Athletic from some of the best in the business, including Founders Fund, Bedrock, Y Combinator and Emerson Collective, to name a few.”
Hartz's first Founders Fund deal evaluation was synthetic anti-freeze peptides
“Come in expecting to be the consumer person that was going to look at all the consumer digital deals, and the first thing I looked at was an anti-freeze synthetic peptide.”
Greenspring Associates Has Backed Accel, Founders Fund, and Thrive
“As for their fund investing, they've backed the likes of Excel, Founders Fund, Thrive, Lightspeed, Foundry Group, and many more incredible managers.”
Kevin Hartz identifies as an operator rather than a venture capitalist
“I really have spent most of my career on the operating side having founded a couple companies and actually recoil when I hear the term venture capitalists or being called a venture capitalists. I really think of myself as a, as an entrepreneur, as a company fo…”