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Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 1:27:54 Jason Calacanis Obviously, the flow to SpaceX is notably small, but over time, people like yourselves and other insiders, founders fund, et cetera, will be unlocked and have the ability to distribute to their LPs.
Bill Maris: How Google Could Crush AI Competitors, Why Small Funds Win, and AI's Atari Stage
- ▶ 17:51 Chamath Palihapitiya Founders two, you know, is gonna print a hundred billion dollar return on two hundred million dollars of invested capital. 2 times in the scene
The IPO Comeback: Why Tech Giants Are Finally Going Public | All-In Liquidity IPO Panel
- ▶ 25:07 Will Marshall Um, Draper Fisher-Jervison was one of the earliest, Capricorn, um, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, then we got, uh, Uri Milner's, DST, those sort of guys.
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 1:21:21 Jason Calacanis Founders fund made a nice investment, and it turned out to be a pretty great trade.
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 1:26:42 Chamath Palihapitiya So do you, so do you think, like, Sequoia and Dries and Khosla Founders Fund, how do they respond?
LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
- ▶ 5:52 Chamath Palihapitiya She was a part of Founders Fund.
- ▶ 1:19:31 Jason Calacanis He wanted to pick somebody to fight for him, Trey, from Founders Fund, and I said no.
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 49:02 Jason Calacanis Obviously Peter's been in some of the great companies through Founders Fund, including SpaceX, but he also picked Trump, he also picked Vance, and he also picked Sachs, so I think it's undeniable that Peter Thiel is just a great picker,…
- ▶ 1:01:08 Jason Calacanis None of us except Founders Fund.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 3:24 Jason Calacanis He worked at Founder's Fund. 9 times in the scene
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 15:46 Joe Lonsdale You know, David, when you, when you texted me last minute to join this, I was actually in a meeting with our friend from Founders Fund, who's building nuclear fuel again for the first time in the US, because that's actually gone away too.
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 40:56 Jason Calacanis And Founder Fund have made an investment into the company, and Nate Silver is an advisor.
Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- ▶ 54:38 Jason Calacanis I think Founders Fund cut the size of its eighth fund in half from 1.8 billion to nine hundred million. 4 times in the scene
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 17:09 David Sacks There was some truth to it in the 19 nineties, uh, by 2002 or 2003, when Peter Thiel created founders fund, he called it that to emphasize that
- ▶ 44:54 Chamath Palihapitiya They hire somebody who doesn't rock the boat, and there are techniques here and very specific ways to attract talent to your startup that will become You know, do you guys remember part of the reason why YC and Founders Fund and Andreessen…
- ▶ 48:53 David Sacks Right, and just, I, I think the turning point was when Peter started Founders Fund, but that was over 20 years ago.
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 41:42 Jason Calacanis Founders fund and Andreessen Horowitz, two notable firms are approaching it differently. 3 times in the scene
All-In Summit: In conversation with Vinod Khosla
- ▶ 2:11 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, I will also give you guys, I had offers from, um, I guess I'll say it, Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz for my Series B.
E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
- ▶ 27:38 David Friedberg Doesn't necessarily mean that they are going to necessarily be the best advisors, and I'm not saying that any of those folks are bad advisors, but there are some venture investors, like Founders Fund is very vocal about this and very… 2 times in the scene
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 54:23 Jason Calacanis There was a really interesting Founders Fund story about them breaking their latest fund in half, and then there is Stripe closing their funding.
- ▶ 54:40 Chamath Palihapitiya So founders fund took their, just to make the math simple, because I'm going to get the numbers not exactly right, but like a two billion dollar fund that they're going to break into two, one billion dollar funds. 4 times in the scene
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- ▶ 1:09:24 David Friedberg But then it's like, well, Founders Fund said we should probably get out. 2 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 1:27:21 David Sacks Well, it's, it's Founders Fund, or reportedly, according to the journal, it's Founders Fund Thrive Capital. 2 times in the scene
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 50:49 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, and the, the tip of the spear is this thing, uh, who's the guy that works at Founders Fund, Bulgar or Buljar?
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 53:23 Chamath Palihapitiya So we put, we, you know, pulled all this data from pitch book and we just started to, I just took a smattering of firms here, Andreessen, Index, Greylock, Benchmark, Sequoia, GC, Founders Fund, Tiger, Excel, Kleiner, Kostler, and us. 3 times in the scene
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
- ▶ 57:04 Keith Rabois Yeah, no, they may be able to find somebody else, but we typically at Founders Fund really don't like to do those rounds.
- ▶ 1:02:27 Keith Rabois We did think at Founders Fund, though, that all the alpha was in Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 31:41 David Friedberg And not have to have this whole pro-founder model that became the thing that Founders Fund and Andreessen and others kind of proclaimed as being core to their advantage and the reason to pick them over some other VC who's going to meddle… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:43 Jason Calacanis and, you know, founders fund became the antithesis of the traditional venture funds and they were going to be founder focused.
- ▶ 43:57 Jason Calacanis Is he a Founders Fund guy? 2 times in the scene
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 50:25 David Friedberg It was from Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and Founders Fund. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:27 David Sacks And, and that's when founders fund Peter came in, I think founded founders fund in 2003. 3 times in the scene
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 56:45 David Friedberg One was Founders Fund, and I would argue they probably have the best consistent returns in terms of the multiples on their funds.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 22:15 David Friedberg At the end of the day, the guys that are known for doing this like Sequoia and Founders Fund and others have had incredible returns by doing exactly this.
- ▶ 28:17 David Sacks And then, you know, he just partnered with Keith Raboy on open store and Keith decided to become the CEO and Keith is still a GP at founders fund.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 1:07:05 David Sacks And then he got Delian and Founders Fund and their whole noise machine to move, you know, their circus to Miami.
E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 30:36 David Friedberg But um, founders fund had early SpaceX shares that they thought it was prudent to sell in the early funds, those SpaceX shares, the later fund was buying SpaceX shares in that round.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 2:44 David Sacks Was that the Founders Fund round? 2 times in the scene
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 36:45 David Sacks Founder's fund. 2 times in the scene
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 1:14:21 Chamath Palihapitiya Founders fund.