Cyan Banister
14 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2024 by Cyan Banister · said 9 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 1 episode
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Dec 20, 2024 positive
Dec 20, 2024 negative
Banister: VCs asking 'what are you excited about' exposes their own cluelessness
“When someone says, what are you excited about? It's because they don't know what to be excited about themselves. And so they're fishing you to try to get excited about something because they lack it in their lives. And so they're doing, they're outsourcing the…”
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Jul 10, 2026 bullish
Banister: I am actively seeking to back the 'Alibaba of the Americas'
“I am still looking for the Alibaba of the Americas. I haven't found it yet. I'm still turning over stones there trying to find, so I always like to put that out there in, in the wild in case someone claims they have that company. I've had many pitches, none of…”
Jul 10, 2026 negative
Banister: OpenAI and Anthropic's closed, centralized AI approach is the wrong path
“It became incredibly centralized and closed source. And you're seeing that happen with open AI and Anthropic. It's the wrong path because everyone needs to have their own models. Everyone needs to be able to be able to compete and you don't want one company wi…”
Jul 10, 2026
Banister: Long Journey acts as 'second believer' to hold founders' flames
“These candles are an addition by Lee Jacobs, who's my co-founder of Long Journey, and the idea is that one candle is witness to the other, so you basically find a founder that has a spark, and their flame is going, and so you light your candle off of theirs, a…”
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Jul 10, 2026 negative
Banister: Marc Andreessen is wrong to tell founders to avoid introspection
“But if you actually become very introspective, and I know Marc Andreessen says, don't do that, but I spend a lot of time being introspective and I would say that he's wrong. And I'd love to have a chat with him about this. You can actually surgically go in and…”
Jul 10, 2026 bearish
Jul 10, 2026 neutral
Jul 10, 2026 bullish
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Jul 10, 2026
Banister: Using Apple products is outsourcing trust, not mindless conformity
“Sheep have to follow something, because if you think about it, you're outsourcing your trust to someone else. And if you think about Apple, we all use the iPhone. Does that make us sheep? You know or are we trusting Apple and an entrepreneur to create an exper…”