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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:51 David Rosenthal And Founders Fund, Peter has just started Founders Fund at this point, obviously.
- ▶ 1:11:05 David Rosenthal Come back to Founders Fund tomorrow and give me the pitch.
- ▶ 1:11:10 David Rosenthal Founders Fund leads DeepMind's seed round of about two million dollars.
- ▶ 1:11:26 David Rosenthal And through Peter and Founders Fund, they get introduced.
- ▶ 1:36:58 Ben Gilbert Founders Fund, of course, would go on to put massive amounts of money into OpenAI itself later as well.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:38 David Rosenthal It's an incredible company, and Ben and I are excited to be investors in their recent funding round alongside NVIDIA Founders Fund and a whole slate of other great investors, too.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:36:32 David Rosenthal It's an incredible company, and Ben and I are excited to be investors in their recent funding round alongside NVIDIA, Founders Fund, and a whole slate of other great investors, too.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:18:03 Ben Gilbert There wasn't Founders Fund yet.
- ▶ 1:25:25 David Rosenthal And Peter, yes, indeed, was just in the process of starting what would become Founders Fund.
- ▶ 1:25:30 David Rosenthal Ben, you already alluded to this, but like, Founders Fund
- ▶ 1:25:39 David Rosenthal The idea being baked into the name that they will always side with founders and never push a founder out of a company.
- ▶ 1:31:02 Ben Gilbert Founders Fund.
- ▶ 1:31:03 David Rosenthal Which Peter, partially on the back of this Facebook investment, has now set up and raised officially, and like we said, Sean goes on to find and fund and really help nurture Spotify through his role at Founders Fund.
- ▶ 1:31:18 Ben Gilbert It's kind of amazing thinking about Founders Fund raising capital on the back of this investment.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:34 Ben Gilbert Browsing PitchBook jogged my memory about the early Facebook strategy that Sean Parker then at Founders Fund invested in 2009 and 10, again, found both in PitchBook, which led to a lot of the discussion on this episode about the importance…
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:56:18 David Rosenthal You could argue for Founders Fund.
- ▶ 1:56:21 Jason Calacanis Not yet, but Founders Fund.
- ▶ 1:56:44 Ben Gilbert but yeah, maybe founders fund, maybe, I mean, Excel, I don't know, depending on.
- ▶ 2:00:42 Jason Calacanis You start talking about Founders Fund, or YC, or Angel List, like, okay, now you're talking about more modern era.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 9:14 David Rosenthal You know, you think today of the top VCs, the top VC firms, you think Sequoia, you think Benchmark, you think Andreessen Founders Fund.
- ▶ 3:34:56 Ben Gilbert Which is true at Sequoia and maybe Andreessen Horowitz, too, and probably Founders Fund.