The Ledger, every show
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Levchin backed Aoun's NLP startup provided it avoided neural networks
“I remember pitching Max Levchin to invest and Max goes, I'm totally in. I'm all for this company. As long as you tell me you're not using neural networks, because those things don't work. And I'm sitting there thinking all we're using is neural networks. And I…”
Aoun: Purely virtual healthcare companies like Teladoc will not succeed
“All these virtual care companies that took off during, call it, you know, 21 during COVID all those Teladocs of the world, I said, they aren't going to be able to succeed in the long run. Because fundamentally, healthcare is physical, right? Like, you can't de…”
Aoun: Almost all recent retail acquisitions of primary care clinics failed
“Well, over the last kind of call it 12 months or so, pretty much every single one of those has failed. Right. And so Walgreens just completely wrote down village MD CVS. Well, you know, they just fired their CEO. You can go look at their stock Walmart, shut th…”
Aoun: Forward burned $500M and investors immediately offered next checks
“We just burned, you know, not quite half a billion dollars on an idea, and every, no, I shouldn't say everybody, but a lot of people's reaction is, What are you doing next? Let's do it again.”
Aoun: Trump and Musk will be less close in four years
“I'm going to go with less because I think at some point he's going to have to Roughly, you know, screw Elon, and that will create some real tension.”
Aoun predicts JD Vance has a serious chance of winning next presidency
“JD Vance is going to become president in the next election, which I think has a very serious possibility”
Forward built a functioning physical doctor's office 90 days after launch
“90 days into starting forward, we had a full doctor's office up and running with real doctors, real patients.”
Adrian Aoun does not ask founders for pro-rata rights in angel deals
“I actually don't try and ask people for pro rata rights, et cetera. I figure, you know what, if I'm a helpful added value investor and it's good for the company and it's good for them, then they'll go ahead and they'll give me an allotment and they'll be nice.”
Adrian Aoun: VC has far fewer bad actors than a decade ago
“The entire industry has done this over the last kind of five or 10 years, and you actually see far, far Fewer bad actor VCs than you did even a decade or 15 years ago.”
Aoun: I made 150 phone calls to inform investors of Forward's shutdown
“I had to make a 150 phone calls. Literally. That's not an exaggeration. One five zero phone calls to our investors to inform them.”
Marissa Mayer invested as an angel in Adrian Aoun's startup Wavy
“So one of the angel investors in Wavy was Marissa Mayer. Now, Wavy was a search company, and Marissa at the time ran search at Google.”