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Alex Pall

Co-Founder & General Partner, Mantis VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Pall is an artist best known as one half of the electronic-pop duo The Chainsmokers. In venture capital, he co-founded Mantis VC, raising multiple institutional early-stage funds to back startups including Kalshi, Chainguard, and FitOn.

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0 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 4 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alex argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Pall: Spotify Friday song uploads grew from 10k to 190k
“Now, like, on Spotify, when we, like, started, there was, like, 10,000 songs uploaded every Friday. Now there's like a 190,000 or something like that.”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 3:35 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best

How they sound: not measured why? →

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Everything Alex Pall said on Invest Like the Best that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Pall: Government IP protection against AI training is already too late
“Yeah, I was like, everything here is like hinged on the government protecting IP, and by the way, it's already too late.”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 1:13 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Insight
Pall: Deep paranoia and fear drive founder success more than rigid vision
“I think it's more important to have that, like paranoia, you know, deep within you that, like, forces you to, like, kind of live in fear your whole life or something that, that, like, allows you to be, you know, successful.”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 22:54 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Pall: Spotify could see one million weekly song uploads soon
“And I imagine that like in a few years it'll be a million, you know what I mean?”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 3:46 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Insight
Pall: Creators must constrain their choices in an era of abundance
“There's so much fucking tool, so many tools out there right now, so many, you know, so much software, so many ideas, so many genres, so much stuff happening every day that, like, you almost have to, like, constrain yourself a little bit to, like, have success.”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 10:42 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Opinion
Pall: Original artists like Fred again stand out against algorithmic music
“So I think when you have an artist like Fred again or someone come along, you're like, I think it has even bigger impact than maybe in the past, because like that originality is so refreshing.”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 13:44 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Insight
Pall: Product-market fit depends on storytelling and genuine founder care
“And I think, like, same thing for, like, companies and product market fit. It's, like, what is the story you're telling? Why should people care? How are you sharing it with the world? And if you don't, like, care about it, then why, Should any, why would anyon…”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 29:22 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Insight
Pall: Both the music industry and venture capital follow power-law dynamics
“It's a power log in music. Like, you build a career off of, like, a couple of huge songs, hopefully, and then there's lots of hopefully other, lots of great music, but, you know, only very few artists will, like a Drake, you know, will just constantly deliver …”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 49:18 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Disclosure
Pall: Mantis VC aims to be the 'sixth man' on cap tables
“Our goal at Mantis is to be, like, the sixth man on every championship team. Like, I want to work with the best investors who are investing in the best founders, and I want to absorb the things that both those parties are doing to, like, understand how to make…”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 1:09:07 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Assertion Contradicted
Pall: Spotify Friday song uploads grew from 10k to 190k
“Now, like, on Spotify, when we, like, started, there was, like, 10,000 songs uploaded every Friday. Now there's like a 190,000 or something like that.”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 3:35 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pall: I still audit every Chainsmokers credit card statement line by line
“I mean, there is not a credit card statement that I have not gone through line by line still to this day, you know, week by week. There's not, you know, a production budget that I haven't seen for a single show”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 39:09 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Disclosure
Pall: I invested in Uber's Series F and made just $6,000
“And I remember, like, doing the Uber series, like, F, and I thought I was, like, in early and I think I've made, like, 6000 dollars on this investment”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 44:41 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best
Disclosure
Pall: Mantis VC began by writing $25,000 to $50,000 allocation checks
“When we started, we were writing 25, fifty-k checks into companies. That was all we could get, you know, and it was about proving ourselves and building a reputation.”
Alex Pall Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 1:12:26 The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Chainsmokers’ Journey from DJs to VCs · Invest Like The Best Jun 24, 2025 42m
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