The Syndicate
topic on 6 shows · 10 statements across 7 episodes · said 44 times in 18 episodes since 2020
All-In 23 
20VC 16 
Capital Allocators 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Top Founders 1 
Acquired 1
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2022 22 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- Betting Big on Web3 with Li Jin
- How He Used PLG to Hit $70k in Revenue this Month
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2021 18 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
- E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
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10 statements about The Syndicate, every show
Syndicate enabled over 5,000 DAOs to launch within nine months
“You look at DAOs, decentralized autonomous organizations, where investors in a company called Syndicate, which is essentially DAO infrastructure, makes it really easy to create a DAO and use that infrastructure. They now have over 5000 DAOs that are using the …”
South Park Commons launched Founder Fellowship DAO with 1,999 investor limit
“At SPC we launched our Founder Fellowship DAO with Syndicate. It was the first DAO of its kind. It's a three C seven DAO that allows for up to 1999 investors instead of the traditional hundred limit. And in our case, we had multiple funds participate. Founders…”
Ian Lee: Web3 and DAOs Will Power the Future of Venture Capital
“And if you believe that, then the end state likely of this trend that's been happening for more than two decades is likely going to lead to some sort of model and system that will be powered by web three endowed technologies behind them. And that is the bet th…”
Ian Lee: DAOs With Explicit Mandates Are Vastly More Successful
“Purposeful DAOs, where they have explicit mandates and very specific ones. Tend to do much better. So if you have, like, a DAO that's just kind of very generic and doesn't really have a clear purpose, those ones have a much harder time sustaining themselves, w…”
Ian Lee: Novel DAO Markets Will Surpass Legacy Entity Transformations
“Over the long run, when we're thinking about 10 to 20 year plus time spans, it's likely that the new to world markets are actually going to outsize the existing ones, and that's absolutely what we think Syndicate is going to do.”
Ian Lee: Syndicate's a16z-Led Series A Turned Its Cap Table Into a Nightmare
“Our series A, which was led by, you know, Andreessen Horowitz, it also had like a 150 people and other funds involved in it. It was like this Monster party around that honestly, like, has made our cap table a nightmare.”
Calacanis: 20% to 30% of promising startup deals fail basic diligence
“Between 20 and 30% of deals that look great, when we get under the covers and look at the diligence, we look at the cap table, we look at the revenue, we look at the accounting, we ask them who's doing their accounting, we ask them for bank statements, we ask …”
Calacanis: The Syndicate on track to deploy $50M across 60 deals in 2021
“We're on track this year to do five deals a month, 60 deals, and we'll put fifty million to work this year at the syndicate.com.”
Calacanis states his syndicate is on a $60M capital deployment run rate
“We are on a sixty million dollar run rate this year of deploy capital via the syndicate.”