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Bridgit Mendler Gives Us the First Tour of Northwood's New HQ + Factory
- ▶ 0:30 Molly O'Shea So you've raised over a hundred and thirty six million dollars from Founders Fund, One 37 Ventures,
- ▶ 22:45 Molly O'Shea So you've raised over a hundred and thirty six million dollars from Founders Fund, One 37 Ventures, Alpine, Washington Harbor.
David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 15:50 Molly O'Shea He was a partner at Founders Fund for a while with Peter Thiel.
Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:20 Jordan Black A lot of our existing investors coming into the mix, such as Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, APC, Andreessen Horowitz.
- ▶ 1:17 Jordan Black Uh, we had Lower Carbon, Interlagos leading the round with a lot of our existing investors, uh, coming into the mix, such as Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst,
- ▶ 31:46 Molly O'Shea With a hundred million dollars in total capital raised to date, you have collected some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, from Sean McGuire of Sequoia, to Paul Kwan of General Catalyst, to Dellian at Founders Fund, and now Lower…
"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:21 Cyan Banister Peter used to ask me that at Founders Fund, and it's a very important question, because what excites you is interesting, but what worries you is also interesting.
- ▶ 1:56 Cyan Banister I have a tendency, wherever I'm at, including at Founders Fund, I was behind the bookshelf that turns.
- ▶ 10:51 Molly O'Shea So for people who don't know what Mafia is and what Mike Solano put together for Founders Fund, could you explain it and like who is also involved? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:19 Cyan Banister Um, Peter used to ask me that at Founders Fund, and it's a very important question because it's, what excites you is interesting, but what worries you is also interesting, and I am worried about, um, us moving more and more into a…
- ▶ 1:04:40 Cyan Banister He's the co-founder of Founders Fund, um, the co-creator and inventor of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:49 Cyan Banister Um, despite the two of them probably would not want to be in the same sentence together, uh, being heralded, but, uh, Peter Thiel for, hopefully is obvious to people why I love him, and you know, he was my partner for four years at…
Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:03 Molly O'Shea I mean, he did a lot of huge growth deals at Founders Fund and is now investing into managers, but he was even talking about like, yeah, okay, you can get later into the company, park a bunch of money in it and still outperform all the…
Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1% · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:17 Molly O'Shea Back at Founders Fund, we did the deal in 2008.
- ▶ 2:14 Molly O'Shea You were first exposed to it at Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:39 Molly O'Shea How did you have so much conviction to spin this out of Founders Fund and do this whole strategy?
- ▶ 25:57 Justin Fishner-Wolfson That was like the first launch after, um, we made the investment at founders fund.
Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:00 Brian Singerman If SpaceX didn't work, Founder's Fund would not exist.
- ▶ 1:34 Molly O'Shea So most people know you from Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:16 Molly O'Shea He told you about Founders Fund. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:37 Molly O'Shea Cause I believe that you are an extension of the people that you're closest with and, and even through founders fund and that sort of thing, the people that you're close with, like, what did you learn from Peter Thiel? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:14 Molly O'Shea I want to know, like, more, like, so his investing strategy, and the, the strategy that you formed at Founders Fund is, like, heavy conviction, concentrated bets. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:43 Brian Singerman Founders Fund are great at that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:13 Brian Singerman The other big ones that I was a part of the team, because the other thing is that Founders Fund, we tend to not do individual credit on things, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:33 Brian Singerman Like, we would have hired this person at Founders Fund if there was, but they're not hireable, right? 2 times in the scene
300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 32:26 Kyle Harrison Um, the, the real linchpin is, um, so, so Trey was at Founders Fund. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:17 Kyle Harrison Deeply sort of, um, anti-militarism, uh, thought process early on, and so a lot of, like, the early investors, if I remember correctly, I think it was, um, primarily Founders Fund and General Catalyst were the main early investors of…
Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 43:48 Molly O'Shea In the boardroom of Sequoia Founders Fund, uh, you were at Applied Intuition, you were at all these different kinds of companies.
Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:24 Shaun Maguire You know, I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and you have people like, you know, Founders Fund, and you know, you have Valor, and you have VY, and you have a bunch of funds, and you have Steve Jurvetson from DFJ, um, like you…
Jeffrey Katzenberg's $2.8 Billion Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 21:04 Jeffrey Katzenberg So founders fund.
Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 27:04 Molly O'Shea So given the fact that you split both sides, how do you manage your time between Anduril and Founders Fund? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:21 Trae Stephens I mean, the Founders Fund strategy is to be highly concentrated into a small number of companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:53 Molly O'Shea From your time at Founders Fund, what's the biggest lesson you've learned from Peter Thiel?
Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 49:58 Mark Bhargava For me, it feels a lot like in 2016 in crypto, there were a few people who thought it was legit, like USV and A-sixteen Z, but most of the market was just trying to be polite because they didn't want to offend USV and A-sixteen Z and…
Inside the $750B+ Thiel Fellowship · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 36:52 Danielle Strachman I mean, Peter has Founders Fund and the Teal Foundation and so many different things he was doing.
Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:56 Scott Nolan This all started when, um, you know, a decade looking at Nuclear Red Founders Fund, talked to every SMR company, small modular reactor company, all the advanced reactor companies, and the one common theme was that nobody had a good source…
- ▶ 7:33 Molly O'Shea You can explain it all, but you've been at SpaceX, you're at Founders Fund, you've been helping out some really critical, uh, national interest companies within Founders Fund, and you were talking about the playbook that these companies… 3 times in the scene
Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:08 Chris Power So Founders Fund and Lux led the round. 2 times in the scene
How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 16:04 Jack Altman I think about Founders Fund.
Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:14:43 Molly O'Shea Sequoia, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, the list goes on.
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 11:01 Leigh Marie Braswell Um, but then, you know, fast forward over a decade later, um, I'm starting at Founders Fund, um, as an investor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:45 Leigh Marie Braswell Um, I mean, the funniest way is, you know, I, I remember one of my first investments at FF was Persona that I worked on with a few other investors there, including Napoleon.
- ▶ 57:31 Leigh Marie Braswell Um, I still observe Neon's board, um, which is an investment at Founders Fund.
Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 18:36 Chris Josephs On the other side, you got, you know, Trump with all of his businesses, all of that stuff, but JD Vance, ex-VC, ex-Founders Fund, you know, invested in Anduril, invested in, um, SpaceX.
Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 40:19 Molly O'Shea You've made it six years at Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 Delian Asparouhov Obviously I still collaborate on all these with a lot of my team members, uh, or, you know, uh, colleagues at FF. 3 times in the scene
SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 5:17 Christian Garrett My two partners, our two co-founders, Justin Fish and Wolfson and Alex Jacobson were at Founders Fund in the early days.
- ▶ 35:17 Christian Garrett Um, Delian, um, from Founders Fund and Varda, uh, and myself.
Cyan Banister & Lee Jacobs: Investing in 'The Magically Weird' | SpaceX, Uber, Anduril · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 27:42 Cyan Banister And then when I went on to Founders Fund, Lee and I collaborated a lot, and the only deals that really stood out when I was there that were differentiated from everybody else's were coming from Lee. 2 times in the scene
How Armada Is Powering AI at the Edge | A Conversation with CEO Dan Wright · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:14 Molly O'Shea Number one, we have Trey Stevens of Founders Fund and Anderil, and number two, we have Christian Garrett and the team at OneThirtySeven Ventures.
Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 33:37 Alex Kolicich I, I think back to when we invested in Endural, we were one of, we were the first outside investor with Founders Fund in the Series A. 2 times in the scene
The Quiet Revolution in DNA Sequencing | Nucleus Genomics · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:19 Molly O'Shea They've raised more than eighteen million dollars in venture funding to date with the last round led by Alexis Ohanian of seven seven six with additional investors such as Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:52 Molly O'Shea Today we have John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, founder of Lucy, and former founder of Soylent.
- ▶ 1:21 Molly O'Shea What does an EIR at Founders Fund mean, and how did you get the opportunity to work with them? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Molly O'Shea And I, I might have also fallen for the Founders Fund portfolio trap, having both Varda and Hadrian on, and now you're on it.
- ▶ 28:06 John Coogan They, they approved enjoy, which was actually a former, uh, founders fund portfolio company long time ago.
- ▶ 56:00 John Coogan I mean, like Trey Stevens, uh, partner at Founders Fund, uh, and co-founder Vanderell just posted this good, uh, essay in Pirate Wires about how, like, like by the time that there's a market trend that you can like build a VC fund around,…
Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer on Portable Nuclear Microreactors & the Future of Clean Energy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:52 Molly O'Shea They've raised over fifty million dollars to date, including a forty million dollars series B in April, 20, 23, led by a 16 Z with other notable funds like Founders Fund and Decisive Point.
Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:21 Chris Power And I think without Founders Fund, Andreessen, doing that charge from a narrative and capital perspective, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:47 Chris Power And obviously Catherine from Andreessen, Diane from Founders Fund, Brandon and Josh from Lux.
- ▶ 32:22 Chris Power And I think without founders fund Andreessen, like leading that charge from a narrative and capital perspective, the ecosystem just simply wouldn't be here. 2 times in the scene
Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:44 Delian Asparouhov But then you look at somebody like, you know, sort of our, you know, CEO and, you know, original co-founder of Founders Fund, you know, Peter Thiel, I would argue, you know, while, you know, he doesn't necessarily always submit to the…
- ▶ 1:25 Molly O'Shea We have Delian from Founders Fund. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:24 Delian Asparouhov And so kind of put the idea on the shelf, COVID hits, you know, Peter at Founders Fund basically tells us, you know, you know, go on a six month vacation.
- ▶ 28:31 Molly O'Shea Um, and then you found yourself at Coastal Ventures and now you're at Founders Fund. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:32 Molly O'Shea You went from Coastal to Founders Fund, um, and Founders Fund is recognized as being very, like, focused on investing in self-reliant founders, people that might not need your help. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:24 Delian Asparouhov I mean, you know, I was like, you know, a professional colleague, not, you know, an FF colleague, but something that we have some professional overlap with that lives in San Francisco.
- ▶ 42:25 Delian Asparouhov Um, let's take, you know, sort of aerospace, uh, you know, as a particular example, and maybe Founders Fund's, you know, pattern of investing in aerospace over the past years or 25 years. 3 times in the scene
David Weisburd, 10X Capital: Finding Alpha and LP Bias · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 14:25 David Weisburd Now, do you want to be aggressive like Brian Singerman at Founders Fund? 3 times in the scene
Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 19:19 Xander Oltmann And so I, I love to partner with, you know, big multi-stage funds, um, like Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Sequoia, uh, just to, you know, name a couple.