Delian Asparouhov
14 statements across 9 episodes · 5 bullish · 8 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 2, 2024 by John Coogan · said 79 times in 39 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
- Leopold Stays in the Game, Big Tech Earnings, OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Prices | Diet TBPN
- Rocket Lab Enters SpaceX Arena, Meta’s Prediction Market, America’s Tech Wishlist | Diet TBPN
- China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
- SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN
- Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
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2025 39 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- Connor Love (Lightspeed) on Everything You Need to Know About Defense Startups
- "Don't listen to anyone" - Shaun Maguire talks Elon, Robots, Space, and the Mars Mission.
- "Work at an outstanding organization first" - Keith Rabois Advice on Starting Companies
- Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- Building Northwood and a ground station network for satellites | Bridget Mendler on TBPN April 23rd
- TBPN Year in Review
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 32 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Delian Asparouhov, oldest first
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Jan 9, 2025 bullish
Mar 14, 2025 negative
Asparouhov: Billionaire-funded startups fail without 24-month VC funding pressure
“Like, this is why I think all, a lot of these billionaire funded projects where the billionaire has made it clear that they will backstop the company somewhat indefinitely without a clear end date have never really worked. Because you don't have this clear, li…”
Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Asparouhov: SpaceX holds 99% market share with ~50% gross margins
“SpaceX effectively represents 99% of the market and has like insane profit margins on their launch business. It's something on the order of like, you know, sort of 50%, you know, sort of gross margin is like the rough report numbers that I've seen publicly.”
Mar 24, 2025 negative
NASA Denied Astronauts Were Stranded Within 24 Hours of Asparouhov's Tweet
“The word stranded had not yet been used a single time in any like NASA comms and anybody's like comms about the entire mission within 24 hours of my tweet going viral. NASA put out a press release explicitly saying the astronauts are not stranded.”
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Founders Fund Deploying $36M First Check Into European Defense Startup
“The thing that I will say though, is at least the biggest check that I've ever, you know, sort of led is like a net new, you know, portfolio company investment. So not just like follow ons, obviously we like we've deployed mega checks in a ramp, but that was a…”
Mar 24, 2025 bearish
Apr 1, 2025 bearish
Asparouhov: Half of hard tech startups will die or sell for cheap
“So, yeah, I think there's gonna be some tough reconciliation that happens, you know, over the course of the next year or two, where it's, like, there's gonna be, like, you know, 50 to 60% of this field that's just gonna have to die off or get acquired for penn…”
Apr 1, 2025 bearish
Asparouhov: AI and frontier tech bubble makes building generational startups harder
“Like, the current, like, new CNC ecosystem for all things, like, frontier tech, AI, et cetera, is, like, in such a crazy bubble right now and that actually just makes it really hard for generational companies to be founded.”
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Asparouhov refuses Zoom calls with SF VCs who avoid visiting LA
“When you have less Zooms, then when somebody, like, I had this, like, VC asking me for a Zoom this week, and I was like, cool, you're an SF, just let me know next time you're LA. Like, if it's so important, just, like, take a five minute flight. And they're li…”
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Asparouhov: AI makes junior research jobs in VC harder to justify
“You know, I do think that there are, you know, sort of junior research jobs that, you know, probably got a lot harder to, you know, sort of justify both in like the land of like, you know, sort of venture all the way to like, you know, sort of grad school labs…”
Apr 28, 2025 bullish
May 4, 2025 bearish
Aug 16, 2025 neutral
Asparouhov: Hardware Investors Underestimate Time Required for Positive Gross Margins
“I watch people invest in them, and I'm like, wow, like, you just have a deep underappreciation for just, like, how long this company has until gross margin flips to, like, positive, how long it's going to be until they're actually, you know, sort of ready to, …”