Brian Singerman

Partner Emeritus, Founders Fund · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

investorengineerexecutivefounder@briansin ↗LinkedIn ↗foundersfund.com ↗Wikipedia ↗

Singerman spent over 15 years as a General Partner at Founders Fund, leading high-profile investments in companies including Anduril Industries, Stemcentrx, Affirm, Oculus, and Oscar Health. Before entering venture capital and co-founding GPx, he was an engineer and executive at Google, where he created iGoogle.

6statements → 1claims → 0claims resolved → 3.83/5average certainty → 2.17/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 not checkable as stated how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 2 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, 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 Brian argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Brian Singerman on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said6 Episodes1

Everything Brian Singerman said on More or Less that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Brian Singerman says fantasy and betting ecosystems put the NFL ahead

“Fantasy does not really work well for other sports, and it works so well perfectly for football that it just gets people entertained and jazzed about the NFL who even otherwise wouldn't care about watching it, right? And I do think that, you know, the betting …”

Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 44:49 #33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Podcast

Opinion

Brian Singerman says esports business models only work for game publishers

“And that's why a lot of these esports things are pretty challenging other than for the game developers themselves, because they can sell a lot of copies of their games because parents buy kids games, right? But any other model in terms of the esports portion o…”

Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 46:53 #33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Podcast

Insight

Brian Singerman says headsets need multi-user presence to be transformative

“For this to truly be transformative, it will have to start working in a way where you're either interacting with multiple people over a network who are wearing one, or even next to you and you're just watching different movies”

Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 19:21 #33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Podcast

Insight

Brian Singerman says VC fundamentals don't change because few companies matter

“What we see though is no matter what the era, there's just very few companies that matter. And this is what all venture capitalists kind of have to try and figure out and make sure they see, pick and get into the very few companies that matter.”

Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 48:46 #33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Podcast

Insight

Brian Singerman says founders are moving past the AI company label

“For a while, I think the pendulum was already being on the shift, but for a while, it was close to 100% Of companies would say AI or LLM by, you know, minute two of the pitch or page one of the deck. And I think that that's changed. It's now just you know, a t…”

Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 50:24 #33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Podcast

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Brian Singerman says early pitches were mostly social, local, and mobile

“It's not a category. I mean, I, I've said this stat a couple of times, but you know, when I first started doing venture capital, everything was social, local, mobile. It was like over 60% of the companies that I looked at, yeah, looked at in the first year wer…”

Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 50:05 #33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Podcast

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Pod	Feb 9, 2024	12m

Brian Singerman

The record, in short

How they sound: not measured why? →

Appearances (1)

Turn any episode into a week of clips.