Founders Fund
includes Founders Fund II, Founders Fund III
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 23, 2021 by Justin Fishner-Wolfson · said 22 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nat Frazier (14), Justin Fishner-Wolfson (5), Ted Seides (1), Sebastian Mallaby (1), Josh Wolfe (1)
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2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
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2021 19 mentions in 1 episode
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Dec 23, 2021 neutral
Fishner-Wolfson: Founders Fund was not a premier VC firm in 2007
“In all fairness, Founders Fund wasn't one of the premier venture funds on the planet back in 2007, right? There really had been no new venture funds It was not like a trivial thing to raise that fund. People were a lot less famous. Facebook was a much smaller …”
Dec 23, 2021 bullish
Fishner-Wolfson: Cost-plus incumbents had zero incentive to develop reusable rockets
“There are a lot of big players. They built their business on a cost plus strategy, and they had no interest in turning rockets into airplanes. And that's fundamentally what needed to happen in order to increase access to space.”