Josh Browder
Founder & CEO, DoNotPay. On 3 shows, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Joshua Browder founded DoNotPay in 2015, creating an AI-powered consumer advocacy service to contest parking tickets and fight bills. A former Thiel Fellow, he also manages the pre-seed investment firm Browder Capital, backing early-stage startups such as Owner.com, Micro1, and Yuzu Health.
3shows
1appearances
93statements
7resolved
3supported
2contradicted
43%fully supported
Everything Josh Browder said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Browder: Growing tech wealth disparity could trigger a revolution in our lifetime
“I think, actually, there could be a revolution in our lifetime.”
Browder: VCs err by scouting high school math Olympiads over grit
“And I think this is actually a mistake a lot of VCs are making. They are focusing too much on, on these credentials. So there's a race right now to back the math Olympiads. VCs are like going to spelling bees and math competitions in high school.”
Browder: AI infrastructure pitches like agent observability are jargon-filled BS
“Everyone is pitching this AI infrastructure nonsense. Like we're building agent observability, like the jargon levels. I'm British. I think that's all BS. Like they just add on the jargon.”
Browder: Accept Sequoia or Founders Fund Over Double Valuation Term Sheets
“There's like the kingmaker firms that you should accept at any price. One example would be Founders Fund or Sequoia or people like that. And so if you get an offer from them at X and the offer from someone else is at two X, you should take their offer because …”
Browder: VCs' pressure to raise next funds directly hurts founders
“So I think this raising the next fund nonsense really does impact decision making and actually directly hurts founders with some of these things.”
Browder: Predatory VCs act like sharks by demanding 15% seed option pools
“Well, the VCs always win. If they do a price round, some of them are sharks. They say we want a 15% option pool at the seed.”
Browder: Large VCs selling secondary shares creates fatal signaling risk
“If Menlo Ventures sell secondary in a company, the company is dead because the signaling risk is, is huge or any firm.”
Josh Browder: Anthropic will reach $1 trillion in revenue
“I think Anthropic will get to a trillion in revenue.”
Browder: Tech wealth gap between AI and laid-off workers is unsustainable
“For every anthropic employee who's making 20 to a hundred million, there's 7000 block employees being laid off. It's not sustainable. You can't have 50,000 people with all the money.”
Browder requires pre-seed founders to live with him until raising seed
“It's in California, so it's like Hotel California, where you can't check out until you've raised your institutional seed, and then I, the company is off life support, and I can, like, relax a bit.”
Browder: Founders reverse engineer podcast commentary to fake investor alignment
“I've noticed a really worrying trend of people reverse engineering what I say on podcasts and in articles to pitch me exactly what I'm looking for.”
Browder: Venture investors at best watch things happen, at worst wonder what happened
“There are three types of people, those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened. And I think at best venture investors are in the second one. Sometimes unfortunately they can be in the third.”
Browder: Silicon Valley VCs exhibit herd mentality by rescinding rejections
“Silicon Valley is such a kind of herd mentality place. Even the people that previously rejected me, once they found out that this firm wants to invest, everyone starts to, like, rescinding their rejections.”
Browder: Micro1 is his best-performing investment at over 1,000x return
“Ali Ansari is a micro one, is objectively my best performing investment in terms of multiple. The founders get upset when I reveal exact valuation numbers, but let's say over a thousand X, well over a thousand X and based on the kind of the scale of the busine…”
Browder Capital's fourth fund will allocate zero capital to follow-on reserves
“I decided for my fourth fund, no reserves, just everything up front, Browder Hotel, let's go.”
Browder: Buyers of early startup secondaries are predatory sharks
“I think that the people buying these secondaries are sharks.”
Browder: Long-term seed investors should prefer SAFEs over priced rounds
“So as a pre-seed and seed investor the kind of B minus VC investors will want to get that next round on a priced basis to get that gap markup. But if you actually care about the economics and making money in the long term, you want the next round on a safe bec…”
Browder: VCs make fake customer promises to trick founders into signing SAFEs
“The VCs will say anything to get you to sign right there and then. Anything. They'll say, I, they, so they'll reverse engineer what the founder is looking for and say, oh, I'm friends. I'm buddies with that guy. I know someone at that company with golf buddies…”
Josh Browder: Founders who run out of cash should manage burn better
“I think this is controversial. I think founders who burn all the money, I think that's not cool. I think it's kind of lame because why did they run out of money? Why didn't they just cut the bun? And obviously some founders fail because of some like black swan…”
Browder: DoNotPay holds more cash than total venture funding raised
“So we have more money than we've raised”
Browder: DoNotPay plans to issue quarterly investor dividends
“We're actually doing another dividend next month, so it's like quarterly. Yeah, we're planning on doing it now quarterly.”
Browder: Business school credentials are a counter-signal for startup hires
“I think business score is actually a counter signal.”
Browder invests all personal earnings into land instead of stocks or cash
“In terms of like my diversification retirement I take all the money I make and I buy land. I don't put it in the stock market. I don't buy, I don't keep it in cash because I think that the dollar is, it doesn't have a good future. I don't buy bonds or anything…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Josh'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 | Founder & CEO, DoNotPay | 1 | 93 | 0% 0/2 | full record on 20VC → |
 a16zLEDGER | Founder & CEO, DoNotPay | 0 | 0 | 50% 2/4 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
 SAASTRLEDGER | Founder & CEO, DoNotPay | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |