Midas List
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 15, 2024 by Delian Asparouhov · said 13 times in 6 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Delian Asparouhov (7), Molly O'Shea (4), John Andrew (1), Ev Randle (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Vibe Coding, AI Valuations & the Supercycle | Navin Chaddha, Mayfield · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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: Post-2012 top Midas List VCs heavily skew toward operators
“And if you look at, you know, sort of top hundred on the Midas list, for VCs, they started their careers sort of pre-thousand-twelve called versus post-thousand-twelve. Pre-thousand-twelve, there was definitely a large number of investors that were pure sort o…”
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…”