Delian Asparouhov
8 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 15, 2024 by Delian Asparouhov · said 20 times in 11 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Molly O'Shea (8), Christian Garrett (5), Xander Oltmann (2), Trae Stephens (1), Minn Kim (1), Keith Rabois (1), Eric Crispin (1), Chris Power (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2024 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- The Quiet Revolution in DNA Sequencing | Nucleus Genomics · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Everything said about Delian Asparouhov, oldest first
Mar 15, 2024 negative
Asparouhov: Half of top-10 Midas List VCs are forgotten a decade later
“If you look at, you know, people that land on the, like the top 10 of the Midas list, you know, every year you'll find that about a decade later, like half of that top 10, nobody thinks about it anymore. Like there are people that have just like totally, you k…”
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Asparouhov: Emailed capsule photos to 15 early critics upon Varda's US landing
“When we landed our capsule most of the team was focused on, you know, sort of celebrating, they were going out and having a good time. I instead was focused on emailing, you know, like, you know, 15 earliest haters that said we would never land a re-entry caps…”
Mar 15, 2024 negative
Mar 15, 2024 bearish
Asparouhov is skeptical of non-pharma microgravity manufacturing startups
“There have been a couple of companies come up, starting to try to tackle non-pharmaceutical product areas in, you know, microgravity manufacturing. And to me, I just find it quite confusing because they always phrase it as like, well, Varda is going to go to t…”
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Mar 28, 2025
Every early-stage VC entering the Midas List since 2015 is an operator
“If you look at the post call, 2015 time frame, the people that make it onto the Midas list, which while an imperfect list is maybe the closest that we have to an objective ranking function of VCs the, you know, sort of the only ones that have made it down to t…”
Mar 28, 2025