Confinity
company on 9 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes · said 26 times in 16 episodes since 2017
How I Built This 8 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 4 
20VC 4 
American Optimist 2 
the a16z Podcast 2 
All-In 2 
TBPN 2 
Acquired 1 
BigDeal 1
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How I Built This 820VC 4the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 4the a16z Podcast 2All-In 2American Optimist 2TBPN 2Acquired 11 more shows
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- Amazon.com · Acquired
- Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- 20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale
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2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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5 statements about Confinity, every show
Every Sand Hill Road VC rejected Confinity's early pitches
“We ran out of venture capital, kind of the Sandhill Road, classic blue chip venture capitalist community very quickly. I think we were roundly rejected by 100% of those pitches. We drove up and down Sandhill Road and Got absolutely nothing.”
Reid Hoffman's advice on securing assets sparked PayPal's electronic wallet pivot
“Reid was one of the more prescient
Grains who was sort of like, hey, you can secure other things. Maybe you can like secure invoices or secure IOUs or, you know, secure something that kind of is valuable in and of itself. And that kind of pushed us close enou…”
Levchin: Reid Hoffman was running failing SocialNet while on Confinity's board
“He was a board member of ours, and he was running this company called Social Net, I think it was called, and it was failing.”
Lonsdale: X.com and Confinity would have failed without their PayPal merger
“Elon Musk, you know, had X.com and Peter Thiel had Confinity and they merged to become PayPal and both of them were probably going to die otherwise. That was the only way they could survive was to merge.”