137 Ventures

“Investor needs for liquidity sometimes will be a forcing function for companies to go public. Like I mentioned, not every company has the ability to run a liquid market effectively or a semi liquid market, like some of these companies we mentioned earlier.”

“And I think you'll see a wave companies going out starting this year and continuing through next year.”

“Obviously I'm still going to be extremely bullish for just the opportunity within aerospace and defense for, you know some of our largest positions like SpaceX and Andrew.”

“In particular we had, the firms that led the round are One through Seven Ventures and Banner VC.”

“That's a real big endorsement coming from somebody who runs more than one percent of SpaceX.”

“I actually think our first investment was in Palantir. I might have to go check with that, but I actually think our first investment was actually in Palantir.”

“They've really shared equity across the entire company, which is incredible. And to your point, they have lots of people on the shop floor who literally make all of the stuff that matters. So the fact that this is life changing for so many people, I really thi…”

“When we started OneThirtySet Ventures, we continued to invest really many times over the last 16 years. So, I don't actually know what the total count is, but we're, we've probably made two dozen investments in the company since we started the firm.”

“We looked at probably every SpaceX, or every space investment for, I don't know, 1520 years, and the good investment was SpaceX, and I think a lot of people thought, well, we should go invest in all these other things, and the answer is, you should invest in S…”

“I mean, in all honesty, like, we haven't, you know, invested in any of the, you know, big foundational models.”