Alex Pall
Co-Founder & General Partner, Mantis VC. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alex Pall is an artist best known as one half of the electronic-pop duo The Chainsmokers. In venture capital, he co-founded Mantis VC, raising multiple institutional early-stage funds to back startups including Kalshi, Chainguard, and FitOn.
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18statements
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6said about them ↓ Everything Alex Pall said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Pall: Government IP protection against AI training is already too late
“Yeah, I was like, everything here is like hinged on the government protecting IP, and by the way, it's already too late.”
Pall: Deep paranoia and fear drive founder success more than rigid vision
“I think it's more important to have that, like paranoia, you know, deep within you that, like, forces you to, like, kind of live in fear your whole life or something that, that, like, allows you to be, you know, successful.”
Alex Pall: Silicon Valley tech workers constantly complain about San Francisco
“I would probably, and this is on behalf of all of our friends we've spoken to in Silicon Valley, I feel like we want to remove them from Silicon Valley and move them somewhere else. Everyone just complains about San Francisco and the culture and everything the…”
Pall: Spotify could see one million weekly song uploads soon
“And I imagine that like in a few years it'll be a million, you know what I mean?”
Pall: Creators must constrain their choices in an era of abundance
“There's so much fucking tool, so many tools out there right now, so many, you know, so much software, so many ideas, so many genres, so much stuff happening every day that, like, you almost have to, like, constrain yourself a little bit to, like, have success.”
Pall: Original artists like Fred again stand out against algorithmic music
“So I think when you have an artist like Fred again or someone come along, you're like, I think it has even bigger impact than maybe in the past, because like that originality is so refreshing.”
Pall: Product-market fit depends on storytelling and genuine founder care
“And I think, like, same thing for, like, companies and product market fit. It's, like, what is the story you're telling? Why should people care? How are you sharing it with the world? And if you don't, like, care about it, then why, Should any, why would anyon…”
Pall: Both the music industry and venture capital follow power-law dynamics
“It's a power log in music. Like, you build a career off of, like, a couple of huge songs, hopefully, and then there's lots of hopefully other, lots of great music, but, you know, only very few artists will, like a Drake, you know, will just constantly deliver …”
Pall: Mantis VC aims to be the 'sixth man' on cap tables
“Our goal at Mantis is to be, like, the sixth man on every championship team. Like, I want to work with the best investors who are investing in the best founders, and I want to absorb the things that both those parties are doing to, like, understand how to make…”
Alex Pall: The Chainsmokers secured preferred terms in competitive startup deals
“We were seeing that we were getting preferred terms into deals that were hot that other people couldn't get into.”
Alex Pall: Contradictory advice from top founders proves no one knows everything
“We've spoken to enough incredibly successful people over the last three months. That, like, everyone begins to contradict themselves. Funny way. You know, in the beginning, you're like, alright, alright, I'm thinking about this the right way, and then, like, t…”
Alex Pall: Startups wanting only social media posts are a red flag
“So obviously there's the press element and things like that, but to us, it's a red flag when a company's like, hey, can you just like post us on social media?”
Pall: Spotify Friday song uploads grew from 10k to 190k
“Now, like, on Spotify, when we, like, started, there was, like,
10,000 songs uploaded every Friday.
Now there's like a 190,000 or something like that.”
Pall: I still audit every Chainsmokers credit card statement line by line
“I mean, there is not a credit card statement that I have not gone through line by line still to this day, you know, week by week. There's not, you know, a production budget that I haven't seen for a single show”
Pall: I invested in Uber's Series F and made just $6,000
“And I remember, like, doing the Uber series, like, F, and I thought I was, like, in early and I think I've made, like, 6000 dollars on this investment”
Pall: Mantis VC began by writing $25,000 to $50,000 allocation checks
“When we started, we were writing 25, fifty-k checks into companies. That was all we could get, you know, and it was about proving ourselves and building a reputation.”
Alex Pall: Ember was one of The Chainsmokers' first startup investments
“Ember was one of the first companies we actually invested in, if not the first, and they're actually doing terrific”
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Drew Taggart: Alex Pall relentlessly hassles founders until they explicitly reject him
“Alex's superpower, too, is he's the world's greatest haggler, and he'll just hassle people. Like, if you say you're like, yeah, we're interested in having you in this round, you're not gonna not hear from Alex once or twice a day until you, like, officially pa…”
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 INVEST LIKE THE BESTLEDGER | Co-Founder & General Partner, Mantis VC | 1 | 12 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Invest Like the Best → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder & General Partner, Mantis VC | 1 | 6 | 100% 1/1 | full record on 20VC → |