Keith Raboy, General Partner at Khosla Ventures, discusses Donald Trump's presidential tenure during a conversation about business leaders serving in public office.
“I think it's in the last 60 years, Trump is the only president whose net worth went down after office.”
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AssertionNot checkable as stated
Raboy: Lina Khan's Yale academic paper on Amazon contained false data
“She published a paper that was false. Like, her whole claim to fame is this paper about Amazon. And the data in the Amazon, the data she used in the paper at Yale was false.”
Keith RaboisDec 13, 2024▶ 1:12:35Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
PredictionOpen · timeframe Jul 2028
Keith Rabois predicts human-labeled AI data will be obsolete within three years
“The truth is, I think there's a very short half-life on human label data. And so everybody who's investing in these companies just to get revenue traction really didn't understand that there may be a year, two years, Three years max when anybody uses human lab…”
Keith RaboisJul 11, 2025▶ 30:11Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
PredictionNot checkable as stated
Rabois predicts Google Search will lose to AI competitors like ChatGPT
“I think Google's also, Google search, cross-search, is toast. And since they have Chrome and they theoretically have a quality team in Gemini, they should be putting these two things together and hoping to compete with Chad GPT. They're going to lose the searc…”
Keith RaboisJul 11, 2025▶ 49:15Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
AssertionContradicted
Rabois: US educational metrics uniformly declined since Department of Education's 1979 creation
“Every single educational stat has got worse in the United States since the department was created.”
Keith RaboisJul 11, 2025▶ 1:22:27Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
Opinion
Raboy: No other active VC can invest on just a keynote deck
“If I meet a founder and there's a keynote deck, there's no product, there's no metrics, that's my sweet spot. Because I also know nobody else in venture is good at that. Nobody else is still active in venture.”
Keith RaboisDec 13, 2024▶ 8:01Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
Disclosure
Keith Raboy: Avoids investing in startup founders with prior domain expertise
“I always mentioned that I don't like people with expertise typically as founders.”
Keith RaboisDec 13, 2024▶ 24:09Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
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