Chris Sacca
Managing Partner, Lowercarbon Capital. On 2 shows, 3 appearances, plus 2 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Chris Sacca is the founder of Lowercase Capital, known for early-stage investments in tech companies such as Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Stripe, and Twilio. Alongside his wife Crystal English Sacca, he currently leads Lowercarbon Capital, investing in hard-tech climate solutions and carbon removal.
2shows
3appearances
106statements
19resolved
9supported
5contradicted
47%fully supported
142said about them ↓ Everything Chris Sacca said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Chris Sacca claims he watched Mark Zuckerberg lie to the U.S. President
“And I've been in the room with Zuckerberg. I've watched him fucking lie to the president of the United States about what they know internally versus, like, the claims he spouts out loud.”
Sacca says he watched Mark Zuckerberg lie to the U.S. President
“I've been in the room with Zuckerberg. I've watched him fucking lie to the President of the United States about what they know internally versus, like, the claims he spouts out loud.”
Chris Sacca calls Facebook a "cancer" and claims its leadership knows it
“Yeah, I think Facebook is a cancer, and they know it.”
Sacca argues sunlight reflection research is essential to avoid climate catastrophe
“And so the one thing we absolutely have to do is research sunlight reflection. And so we have no way out of this without reflecting sunlight back into the solar system to buy us some time.”
Sacca: No reason to hire a financial analyst again after GPT-4
“I don't know why I'd hire a financial analyst again. It's a job I value, but at the same time, this thing in moments spit back compound annual growth rate analysis.”
Sacca: Travis Kalanick was ousted by 13 Uber managers, not VCs
“In the end, what pushed Travis out was when his team held him accountable. It was when the, you know, his 13 senior managers all wrote a letter and said, dude, you gotta stay out of the company. You know, that's really the only force that Silicon Valley leader…”
Chris Sacca: Commercial nuclear fusion is imminent, far under 30 years away
“You know, I deeply respect all the work you've done in the space, but you sound like someone who hasn't visited the lab in a while, because that's not where it is, and I can't preempt any announcements coming from any of our companies, but I can assure you it'…”
Chris Sacca calls SoftBank "value destructive" in the venture capital industry
“But I think SoftBank is just value destructive, and it drives me fucking crazy.”
Chris Sacca claims Lowercarbon Capital's current internal rate of return is 95%
“The multiples are already there. I think IRR is 95% right now, and so so we're already getting fucking rich doing it”
Chris Sacca: Rogue states will unilaterally deploy geoengineering if democracies do not
“And if we don't do it, You know, North Korea is going to do it on their own. Like, some rogue state is going to launch a projectile that explodes a bunch of dust in the atmosphere, and we won't know which dust, which altitude, and the best ways to do it, and w…”
Sacca predicts Lowercarbon will outperform his legacy software venture investments
“Absolutely. I'll get way richer from this. I have multiple companies in the portfolio right now that have, like, they have a trajectory to being multi-trillion dollar market cap”
Sacca: Commercial nuclear fusion is far closer than 30 years away
“I can assure you it is much, much more near term than 30 years imminent, maybe now, who knows, but it's been fucking fascinating to see these accelerating curves”
Sacca calls SoftBank value destructive
“I think SoftBank is just value destructive, and it drives me fucking crazy.”
Sacca: Akamai's fraud allegations against Speedera were 'trumped up garbage'
“Their primary competitor, Akamai, had accused them of all kinds of computer fraud and abuse stuff that was just
Totally trumped up garbage.”
Sacca: Google's $6B spectrum bid established net neutrality rules for wireless networks
“We went from zero to within a year bidding six billion dollars on spectrum and attaching openness rules to wireless spectrum. That's why the wireless networks are net neutral. It was because of this big hand of poker we'd played.”
Sacca: Founders who do not help clean dishes lack startup empathy
“If they couldn't empathize with the host, how can I be helpful? Then it just shows somebody who is not equipped to build a startup because a startup is constantly about empathizing with your customer and your user, and then showing how can I make it easier for…”
Sacca: Lowercarbon Capital is not concessionary; partners are largest LPs
“This is not concessionary capital. Crystal and I are the biggest investors in our fund. We are in this to make a lot of money.”
Sacca: Removing Carbon From Any Process Inherently Makes It Cheaper
“So anytime we remove carbon from a process, it just gets cheaper. Carbon has an inherent value. It's necessary for a lot of the stuff we do, And it has a monetary value. And so any way we could take it out of building a product or running a service, we just ha…”
Sacca: AI has turned nuclear fusion progress into a vertical curve
“AI and machine learning had so greatly accelerated progress in fusion that it was geometric now. It was a vertical curve. Because experiments used to take one to two years to run one experiment in a fusion reactor. Now they could run in high fidelity in the co…”
Sacca passed on Dropbox and Airbnb due to competition and safety fears
“I told the Dropbox guys that Google was going to crush them because we already had G Drive internally. I told the Airbnb guys that somebody was going to get raped or murdered and the blood was going to be on their hands when they were renting out a room in som…”
Sacca: Lowercarbon's Fund 7.81 will remove 7.81 gigatons of carbon
“We call that one 7.81 because we believe with that fund, we'll be able to pull 7.81 gigatons of carbon out of the atmosphere. And when we do so, we will reduce the parts per million in the atmosphere by one.”
Sacca: Lowercarbon's Swedish electric airplane startup has billions in orders
“We have an electric airplane company in Sweden that even Bill Gates said was going to be impossible. It's a 35 seat plane that's got billions of dollars of cash on the barrel orders. And the majors have invested in the company because it's just cheaper to oper…”
The other half of the tape: Chris Sacca's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 128 times in 37 episodes across the shows. 14 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 47Matt Mazzeo 28Jason Calacanis 10Ted Seides 4Tim Ferriss 3Ryan Sarver 3Ron Bouganim 3Justin Caldbeck 3
Statements about Chris Sacca, by other people (14)
Four of the top 10 Midas VCs lacked firms 10 years ago
“Four out of the top 10 VCs, Steve Anderson, Chris Saka, Josh Copeland, Peter Thiel, In that they didn't have firms 10 years ago, right?”
Lowercase Capital's first fund is the most successful venture fund ever
“I think he's got the most successful fund ever with Lowercase's first fund.”
Calacanis: Chris Sacca is hands down the top angel investor
“So if you were doing SaaS, you know, I put Gil ahead of myself and Tim Ferriss, and maybe, you know, on par with Sokka. I mean, Sokka's just a whole nother level. So I put Sokka as number one hands down right now.”
Mazzeo: Chris Sacca walked away from tens of millions over 'icky' deals
“Watched him walk away from tens of millions of dollars repeatedly because he didn't feel right about, and it felt icky to him in that investment. Actually, that's the only, like, that's the only red flag no black ball that we have is if an investment makes us …”
Pishevar turned $25,000 into $4 million investing in Lowercase Capital
“I would say it would be lowercase Chris Saka's fund. I put, you know, a little check in there and got four million out like, 25,000 turned into four million, so it was a legendary fund. I think it was like ten million and returned like 1.5000000000 or somethin…”
Besvinick: Reputation is the only asset investors 100% control
“Reputation is the number one currency as an investor that you have control over. The other one obviously is your track record, but you and I both know that To a certain extent that's out of the investor's control. You know, we can hopefully select great founde…”
Stanton: Lowercase Capital Is One of the Top-Performing Funds Ever
“Lowercase Capital became one of the, if not the top-performing fund of all time”
Chris Sacca hosted three-day founder deep-dive offsites at his Truckee home
“Chris Saka Had his famous offsite over in Truckee, north of San Francisco, in ski country, where he would sequester these entrepreneurs for like three days, living in his home, and all they would do was these deep dives.”
Caldbeck: Chris Sacca is far and away the best seed investor
“Having worked with a lot of seed investors, I think he is far and away the best that I've worked alongside.”
Early Micro-VC Returns Gave LPs Confidence to Back Solo GPs
“I actually think that there's a lower threshold because people like Jeff, Steve Anderson, Chris Saka, and others showed that you could take a small amount of capital. And actually turn it into meaningful returns. I think the fact that they proved that those ea…”
Gumroad raised $10M from Kleiner Perkins, Levchin, Ravikant, and Sacca
“Raised ten million bucks from Kleiner Perkins, Max Lefgen, Naval, Chris Saka, the wonder kind of story, college dropout, everything like that.”
Batnick: Chris Sacca Passed on Airbnb, Snapchat, and Dropbox
“But he actually said no to three of the best potential investing opportunities. I think it was Airbnb, Snapchat, and Dropbox. It's not like they came to him. He looked at them and said, nah, no, no, no.”
Sarver: Chris Sacca is like Yoda for venture and career advice
“And then I think kind of in our industry Chris Saka has been a close friend and probably the person I go to the most for kind of personal and career advice. And I've always said he's kind of like Yoda. He always kind of deploys like the best most personal advi…”
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20VC 121
Capital Allocators 7
2025 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- 20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
- 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
- Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Scaling to $2BN AUM in 3 years, Fundraising Lessons and Tactics from 2,500 LP Meetings & What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time with Harley Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital
- 20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Michael Batnick - The Best Investors and Their Biggest Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.71)
- 20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- 20VC: The 2 Core Roles Played By The Best Seed Investors Today, What To Look For In Potential Co-Investors & Why Seed Funds Can Grow Ownership in Their Best Companies Across Rounds with Ron Bouganim, Founder @ Govtech Fund
- 20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- 20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- 20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- 20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 59 mentions in 6 episodes 10 per episode
- 20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- 20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- 20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- 20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- 20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Chris's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| 20VCLEDGER | Managing Partner, Lowercarbon Capital | 2 +2 | 72 | 53% 8/15 | full record on 20VC → |
| CAPITAL ALLOCATORSLEDGER | Managing Partner, Lowercarbon Capital | 1 | 34 | 25% 1/4 | full record on Capital Allocators → |