Jake Paul
Co-Founder, Anti Fund. On 5 shows, 5 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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First rising to fame on Vine and YouTube, Jake Paul transitioned into high-profile professional boxing and founded Most Valuable Promotions. As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he co-founded Anti Fund—investing in companies like Anduril, Ramp, and Cognition—as well as consumer ventures including micro-betting platform Betr and personal-care brand W.
5shows
5appearances
72statements
6resolved
2supported
2contradicted
33%fully supported
64said about them ↓ Everything Jake Paul said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Jake Paul Claims He Is Uncancellable Because He Has Done Nothing Bad
“That's the thing is I'm uncancellable because like no one will ever find or see anything about me that is actually bad. And it's all just like fake hate.”
Jake Paul: Donald Trump Is One of the Best U.S. Presidents
“I think he Is arguably one of the best presidents the United States has had in, in this term. There's so much propaganda and things, but at the end of the day he's doing an incredible job, and there's always gonna be criticisms.”
Paul: Humans will live forever by transferring our minds into robots
“Yeah, we're all going to live forever. Like we're just going to like transfer our mind into some robotic body. And so I think this whole, like, health wave.”
Jake Paul Claims He Would Be the Best Boxer With Lifelong Training
“If I had been doing it my whole life, I'd be the best boxer in the world for sure.”
Jake Paul: Only he, MrBeast, and Logan Paul remain top legacy creators
“You know, you kind of had to be there from the start, and that's why you really see with brands that have stuck around at the highest level in social media, it's me, Mr. Beast, and my brother, and there's really no one else.”
Jake Paul: Live streaming culture is bad for society and young viewers
“I think the streaming culture is, like, really interesting, and probably not the best for society, because, like, there's so many of these kids watching, and I actually feel like what I was doing on YouTube, but, like, this is the, Final iteration of it, and I…”
Jake Paul: Donald Trump endorsed me on stage to run for president
“President Trump, like, endorsed me on stage to run for president, and then backstage was like, I think you should really do it, etc.”
Jake Paul predicts he will enter politics within 10 to 15 years
“I would probably say, yeah, the most like obvious one that I'm like super passionate about is, is definitely politics. And that seems to, you know, grow as I get older as well because of what Jeff was saying is like, how do I, okay, we have the money, we have …”
Jake Paul plans to play college football at Stanford and join NFL
“I do have NFL aspirations after boxing. I want to play slot receiver, and so I think to, you know, get that experience in college first would be good, so I could walk onto the Stanford team. It, yeah, it, I'm being serious though, yeah.”
Paul: Dana White feud is driven by his partnership with Nakisa Bidarian
“That's a whole big part of the beef. It's not just me. It's the fact that, yeah, Nikisa and I have teamed up together. So yeah, definitely a sore subject for Dana.”
Paul: MVP became boxing's top promoter by operating like an SF startup
“So just by running it like a proper SF startup, we've, amongst many other things, but we, that's where the, why we've been able to become the number one promoter in the sport in four years when a lot of these other people have been doing it for 3040, 50 years.”
Jake Paul: Attention Is More Valuable Than Capital in Venture Investing
“It goes back to like one of our founding principles, which is attention is more valuable than capital.”
Jake Paul: Anti Fund Aims to Manage $10B to $20B Eventually
“Yeah, I think if the 30 mil fund was, like, the end goal, it would be like, no, but, like, we want to run 10, twenty billion dollars at some point, and look up to people like, you know, Josh Kushner at Thrive, who started with, you know, I think it was four, f…”
Jake Paul: Boxing Revenue Is Driven by Attention, Not Fight Outcomes
“Yeah, a hundred percent. Yeah, and, you know, like, it just, it's all math, right?”
Jake Paul States Conditions Under Which He Would Run for U.S. President
“I would only want to do it if I was, A, the best person for the job, and if, B, there was, like, someone like Kamala Harris, like, running that, like, could have the potential to, like, ruin the United States, and I would have to, like, go and oppose them and,…”
Jake Paul Claims His Mind Is Sharper Than Every Other Boxer
“That's why I think I got good at is because it's just my mind is better than other, probably every boxer.”
Jake Paul Retains Higher Payout Percentages Than Any Other Boxer
“I take the most home out of any boxer. Like, I have the best setup in, in boxing, because I'm my own promoter, and I'm the one negotiating with the platforms.”
Jake Paul warns against therapy cycles that encourage self-victimization
“I think you just have to be careful. You know, you don't want the therapy to, like, turn into victimizing yourself, and then always being in constant, sad, Loops. So I think you have to be careful. And at some points if it feels needed, yes, but I don't think …”
Jake Paul sets $10M to $30M minimum threshold for new business pursuits
“But yeah, I think things now have to be like 10, 20, thirty million dollar opportunities for me to spend time on it.”
Jake Paul: Negative press benefits anti-fragile public figures
“I would say that not all press is good press. For certain people. For me, yes. Because I can, like, survive it, and like... You're anti-fragile. Yeah, and just, it's, you know, what are they gonna say? Like, the, my neighbor, like, the first reason I was hated…”
Jake Paul: Clavicular's success is driven by radical authenticity and controversy
“He's not afraid to be fully authentic and say exactly expose himself to the world, and I don't think people have done that, and that's why I think he's been successful, and then he's also doing things that generate bad press, but it, you know, good news travel…”
Paul: Live streaming culture is peaking due to platform moderation
“It's probably already near its peak, because the platforms now, like, aren't allowing certain things to be streamed, and they're already getting like, you know, de-platformed if they do certain things, so I think it's probably at its peak right now with some o…”
Paul: Anti Fund accessed SpaceX and xAI rounds through Jared Birchall
“Going into SpaceX and XAI, working with Jared Burchill to get into some of those rounds and then, you know, you're liquid very quickly.”
Paul: The most technical companies often have basic marketing knowledge
“You, you'd be surprised at the level of marketing knowledge that these companies have. It's like, day one, very basic. These are the most technical companies in the world, right? But they're not the best at breaking through to grow their users”
The other half of the tape: Jake Paul's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 51 times in 20 episodes across the shows. 13 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most John Coogan 19Harry Stebbings 6Jordi Hays 4Olivia Moore 3Molly O'Shea 2Trevor McFedries 1Ryan Serhant 1Roy Lee 1
Statements about Jake Paul, by other people (13)
Jeff Woo: Jake Paul created the influencer job profile via daily vlogging
“Jake literally created the influencer term in that, like, job profile, if you think about him instantiating the daily vlog.”
Jeff Woo: Jason Calacanis warned that partnering with Jake Paul would ruin his career
“And I remember when we announced Anti-Fund, Jake was like, GW, like, you're making a mistake. Like, Jake is not like good. You're ruining your career.”
Geoffrey Woo: Jake Paul Represents the Aspirations of the Next Generation
“I mean, maybe the way, like, cause I, it's easier for me to brag about Jake, but I think the highest order bit is that I think Jake represents the next generation of Americans and what they want to be like.”
Geoffrey Woo: Jake Paul Intros Outperform Traditional 'Boomer Suited' VC Intros
“It's like, would you rather have a Jake Paul introduction or some random boomer suited VC make that intro? The response rate and the integration rate is like super high.”
Woo: Culturally authentic creators will outlast stunt-reliant peers like MrBeast
“So my hot take is that I am long people that have true cultural affinity to Their viewers versus reliance on stunts and spectacle.”
Hays: Jake Paul is one of our era's greatest gambling entrepreneurs
“Jake, Jake Paul is you know, one of the greatest gambling entrepreneurs of our time as well. He's got a company called better.”
Geoffrey Woo: Anti Fund Wants to Expand Into Public Markets
“I think Jake and I are very interested in the public markets.”
Woo: Anti Fund meets with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on roadmap
“Because, like, you're sitting down with Mark Chen, the chief research officer of OpenAI, talking about, like, the roadmap and the future models that they're working on.”
Woo: The greatest business operators switch roles rapidly like state machines
“So, but I think that's what the greatest operators are like. Like you just get dropped in situations and you're like a state machine. You switch really quickly.”
Woo: Anti Fund summit aims to be next-gen Allen & Co
“We hosted our first anti-fund summit there, and I think it'll be, our goal with that will be, it's, like, the next generation cooler version of Deer Valley, the Allen & Co.”
Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul Spent Three Hours With the U.S. President
“I think we're, we got to spend, like, three hours with the president a couple weeks ago”
Hayes: Jake Paul will become a billionaire from boxing fairly quickly
“So yeah, he, his Pete, like Jake Paul will actually be a billionaire just from box fairly quickly, simply because he's going to do a handful more fights. I imagine then he needs about a two X from there and he'll be able to go, but.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
TBPN 34
20VC 8
Sourcery 5
the a16z Podcast 4
2026 18 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN
- The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
- SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 13 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN
- The END of TikTok?
- Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
- Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 19 mentions in 3 episodes 6 per episode
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- How Lucy Guo Is Building A Creator Empire with Shaq, Kygo & Olivia Dunne | Passes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jake'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 | Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 1 | 20 | — | full record on 20VC → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 1 | 18 | 0% 0/1 | full record on TBPN → |
| a16zLEDGER | Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 1 | 16 | 0% 0/2 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
 AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 1 | 10 | 67% 2/3 | full record on American Optimist → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 1 | 8 | — | full record on Sourcery → |