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Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:01 John Coogan Big news in the fintech world, not related to, to ramp actually, but Stripe, another, uh, founders fund project. 2 times in the scene
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 1:51 John Coogan To this business from, uh, from Founders Fund, but, uh, you know, I had like emails from in Founders Fund from like people that went to hereticon, people that'd be a good guess. 2 times in the scene
Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:21 unnamed speaker I think Founders Fund, uh, was in at least one of the rounds, but it was a grind by all accounts.
🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:36 unnamed speaker FF's investment of twenty million dollars at a two hundred million dollar valuation into SpaceX did get diluted, but it is still, I think, like the best venture investment
- ▶ 26:48 John Coogan Founders Fund investment at two hundred million might be the best venture investment in history.
WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:22 unnamed speaker That's pretty easy to narrow down, but anyway, he says, 12 people in the meeting, one of the GPs fully fell asleep, because some of the top, like, you know, FF doesn't have 12 GPs, and they don't really do partner meetings like this, so,…
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:53 unnamed speaker Someone who's maybe like a bond capital and then founders fund that maybe Kleiner, like someone with that pedigree with that kind of background.
SpaceX S-1, Anthropic Revenue Booms, OpenAI Cracks Erdős Problem | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:13 John Coogan He was at Founders Fund. 4 times in the scene
Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:04 John Coogan Founders Fund and Valor are set to make more than sixty billion in gains on the SpaceX IPO. 4 times in the scene
Meta Tokenmaxxing, Intel Joins Terafab, Frontier AI vs. China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:52 unnamed speaker I've been on some, like, Founders Fund events, but those aren't really retreats.
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 28:08 Thomas Laffont You hadn't seen like these new firms like founders and obviously, you know, and a bunch of others kind of really make their mark.
Open AI Acquires TBPN, Artemis II, The AI-Built $1.8B Company | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:14 John Coogan Uh, and then when I joined Founders Fund, uh, the very first deal that I saw in motion at Founders Fund was the post ChatGPT round in OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Acquires TBPN
- ▶ 8:04 John Coogan Uh, and then when I joined Founders Fund, uh, the very first deal that I saw in motion at Founders Fund was the post ChatGPT round in OpenAI, uh, in late twenty-twenty-two, early twenty-twenty-three. 3 times in the scene
Is Meta Really Addictive?, Jetsons Prediction, Artemis II: Back to the Moon | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:01 unnamed speaker So you could have put Peter Thiel because founder's funds in, you could have put Lightspeed, is that Danny Reiner?
Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:45 unnamed speaker The Sequoias, the Founders Funds, the Andreessen's.
The Great Peptide Debate with Martin Shkreli & Max Marchione
- ▶ 12:14 Martin Shkreli People like me, Vivek Ramaswamy, we look all around the world for medicine to buy and medicine to put into companies that great firms like A-sixteen Z and Founders Fund and other more healthcare maybe focused firms will fund, take it to…
Nvidia Restarts China Sales, Vibe Coding Backlash, Peptide Craze | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:23 unnamed speaker I mean, when I was at FF, I had two phones, but.
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:22 John Coogan Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer Founders Fund, Iconic, and MGX.
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:40 unnamed speaker Amphropic is nearing the completion of a deal to raise more than twenty billion in a funding round led by investors, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, D.E. 4 times in the scene
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:42 Jordi Hays Uh, bunch of folks, Founders Fund, Khosla, Eric Schmidt, a bunch of legends.
OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation
- ▶ 14:38 unnamed speaker They're maybe leaning back and then Sequoia comes in or founders fund or Andreessen or someone comes in and then they're like, wait, wait, wait, you said that I could get two percent of this company for a hundred K like, well, like give me…
Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:19 John Coogan Well, we should read through some of the history about Founders Fund's investment in SpaceX, because it might be one of the greatest, it might be, it might become the greatest venture capital investment of all time. 6 times in the scene
Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- ▶ 11:31 Shaun Maguire And look, I'm going to give a shout out to Founders Fund. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 unnamed speaker And so everyone else is, you, you, you and FF were free riding maybe.
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 38:29 John Coogan The, the course was literally called how to start a startup CS one, um, and zero to one kind of turned into the playbook that founders fund ran for a long time and still runs and has produced a bunch of alpha.
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on conspiracy theories, short sellers & advice for young people.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:28:40 John Coogan We have the debate of the century, the debate of the year, a showdown between former founder fund, founders fund colleagues. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:35 Delian Asparouhov And so, you know, you know, our one-liner at Founders Fund is competition is for losers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58:28 Delian Asparouhov Um, you know, uh, one of the upsides of Founders Fund is, you know, we're very, um, you know, sort of, uh, the, the, the, um, let's say, uh, non-centralized, distributed, you know, not many, you know, sort of rules, which, you know, ever,… 2 times in the scene
The Risk of Losing the Moon to China | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 1:52 Delian Asparouhov That's all I have value for at Founders Fund is just like, you know, I just like threaten people with violence in order to get money in.
Willem Van Lancker on Terrain’s Radical New Founder Program
- ▶ 1:42 unnamed speaker They can even do EIR programs at Founders Fund, or that's what I did.
The Hidden Power of AI in Metal 3D Printing | Erik Palitsch on TBPN
- ▶ 33:33 Erik Palitsch And, uh, obviously Founders Fund and, you know, ATVC and Valor and a bunch of, you know, top tier, um, uh, investment firms, Threshold and Two Sigma, they'll all get mad at me if I don't list them all out.
How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 1:14 Delian Asparouhov Um, I think it's honestly, it's, it's basically everything, like everything from the portfolio companies, um, to, you know, FF meetings, um, you know, to, you know, to Varta meetings.
- ▶ 16:50 Delian Asparouhov Delliantofoundersfond.com.
- ▶ 19:25 Delian Asparouhov We don't believe in the M word over here at Founders Fund.
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 35:05 Aaron Ginn I think, I think LLM's is a, as Founders Fund would say, uh, is that I have a Star Wars view of the world, not a Star Trek view of the world.
You Shouldn't IPO - Here's Why | Everett Randle on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 13:48 Everett Randle I think you also see this at my, you know, my previous employer founders fund.
What the New TARIFFS Mean for Tech | Logan Bartlett on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 24:35 Logan Bartlett It's like a bunch of interesting, like, oh, here's founders fund returns.
Why 2027 and 2049 are KEY YEARS | Akhil Iyer on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 10:37 Akhil Iyer Yeah, you know, um, with you guys at Founders Fund, we're invested in a company together called Armada, and it's really kind of giving me a new glimpse into what not just Edge, so Edge being where am I going to deploy compute, again, go…
Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
- ▶ 4:15 Delian Asparouhov Like, leave that to OnlyFans and Founders Fund to figure that out.
Christian Garrett (137 Ventures) on Investing and Markets
- ▶ 1:26 Christian Garrett But, uh, you know, we saw, you know, a long time ago, really on the heels of Facebook, uh, and after spinning out a founder's fund, we saw the opportunity to partner with companies on the liquidity side as a way to invest in them and build…
Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
- ▶ 13:07 Delian Asparouhov Um, and so, you know, I wouldn't say that like the quality of what we get, you know, sort of inbound at least at founders fund is, you know, something, you know, super high in Europe.
Trae Stephens talks Flock Safety, Anduril, and American Dynamism.
- ▶ 5:13 Trae Stephens Now, what that means for founders fund, practically speaking, and gov tech is that we tend to want to write more concentrated checks.
Justin Mares talks Tru Med, MAHA, and the Future of CPG.
- ▶ 9:25 Justin Mares Founders fund company.
Delian Asparouhov on Near Death Experiences, Deflecting Asteroids, and the Magic of Venture.
- ▶ 30:15 Delian Asparouhov I mean, I don't think we're so religiously libertarian at Founders Fund that we believe the government has no use whatsoever.
"I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
- ▶ 21:31 John Coogan This is like famous, like founders fund lore is that like Sean Parker and Daniel come in and they're like, and they're like, we are going to execute like the Napster type music sharing strategy, but it's all going to be legal.
Bridget Harris breaks down the Prime Intellect deal and the broader sentiment in crypto today.
- ▶ 0:00 John Coogan We are, uh, bringing on Bridget from Founders Fund.
- ▶ 10:46 Bridget Harris So like when Joey and I started at founders fund, like almost, almost two years ago now, um, 2 times in the scene
"Work at an outstanding organization first" - Keith Rabois Advice on Starting Companies
- ▶ 8:55 Keith Rabois And then similarly, you know, when I was working at founders fund at the time, 3 times in the scene
HUGE Humanoid Robots Funding for 2025 ($40 BILLION)
- ▶ 4:00 unnamed speaker I think Founders Fund gets very aggressive with this and that there's more comfort being like, we have 15% of our fund in this one company. 2 times in the scene
The BILLIONAIRE Saving THE WEST
- ▶ 12:38 unnamed speaker Founders Fund.
He's POURING Money Into Technology Investments
- ▶ 9:23 unnamed speaker Fifty billion dollars of downstream capital that somebody like a GC or an Andreessen or a Founders Fund, um, or a Sequoia can, can deploy into that.
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 2:40:00 John Coogan From Trey Stevens at Founders Fund, he's, uh, quote tweeting Zach Johnson, who says, ByteDance has released an IDE, a cursor IDE competitor called Trey. 2 times in the scene
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 4:19 John Coogan Uh, incubator of a ton of different stuff through, uh, Founders Fund, runs Founders Fund, big venture capital firm, uh, invests personally, and is tied to a ton of other venture capital firms. 3 times in the scene
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 1:30:08 John Coogan Peter is a co-founder if it has a Tolkien name, and then it was like, a Founders Fund partner is involved, and therefore it has a Tolkien name, and then it became like, you went to Peter's Christmas party, and so you get to use a Tolkien…
- ▶ 1:47:25 Jordi Hays You know, Founders Fund was involved, but the, the Andrew Seed Round was done at like, 97 post or something like that.
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 1:11:12 John Coogan Uh, I think marijuana should be, um, banned, uh, but, uh, anyways, uh, Delian, co-founder at Varda and partnered founders fund says the next big thing in 2025 will be regular landings on the moon of equipment to prepare for people shortly…
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:19:17 John Coogan And, uh, it's, it's, it's particularly hilarious because like Andrew was a founder's fund incubation 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:56 John Coogan He's a good buddy.
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 32:31 Jordi Hays Like I think, um, Trey, I remember Trey went on a podcast and was basically talking about how, you know, the founders fund thesis is a sort of monopoly driven power law.
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 23:50 unnamed speaker The reason I actually pulled this up, the reason this resurfaced was because I had a friend who is, uh, considering joining the government and was doing kind of an informational interview with, uh, one of the partners at Founders Fund and,… 2 times in the scene
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 6:53 John Coogan I attended the services as a guest of two of the more prominent people within Epic, Trey Stevens, the Founders Fund partner and Anderle co-founder, and his wife, Michelle Stevens, chief revenue officer at Felt, a healthcare software…
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 52:16 Jordi Hays Work at Founders Fund. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:52 John Coogan Excited for the new fuel from our friends at Founders Fund.
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 7:21 John Coogan That's one of the best things about, uh, heretic on like founders fund.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 4:13 John Coogan Coastal Ventures, led by none other than Keith Raboi, has teamed up with Founders Fund to throw a ten million dollar Series A pass to Lava, a Bitcoin lending platform out of New York. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:35 Jordi Hays I don't think founder, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:49 John Coogan I mean, I always said this is interesting about Founders Fund because like, you know, big stories around, uh, Palantir, SpaceX, and Anduril. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:32:15 John Coogan It would be like Peter Thiel's founders fund invested or Peter Thiel venture capital fund invested. 3 times in the scene
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 1:28:35 unnamed speaker Um, but yes, and also, if you talk to anyone at Founders Fund, you should have to join Pirate Wires, but you have to pay.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 59:26 John Coogan I'm Coogan from Founders Fund.
- ▶ 2:17:16 John Coogan Founders Fund's turning 20 next year.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 41:45 John Coogan And, uh, actually raises money from Founders Fund, I believe.
- ▶ 1:54:58 John Coogan Um, building, uh, a, uh, Northwood space, uh, communications, uh, hard tech company, um, funded by Delian at Founders Fund, uh, and, uh, yeah, it's, it's great to see, um, but she is, she's a very, very important voice, very underrated,…
- ▶ 2:56:20 John Coogan I think it's in the Pirate Wires feed, and also the Founders Fund YouTube feed, um, but it's a great, uh, revision, and then, uh, revisitation of that work, and then, uh, obviously, you see it all over X now, where there's been a major…
- ▶ 3:06:03 John Coogan Altman's kind of the, the, the FP Jorn of the angel investors, but you got the, you got the Holy Trinity there with Founders Fund, Sequoia, Kleiner, and then you add Arthur Rock.
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 39:05 John Coogan John Coogan, an entrepreneur in residence at Founders Fund, uh, and host of the podcast, Technology Brothers, said he experienced this pressure firsthand when trying to grow his YouTube channel, which is now has nearly a half a million…
- ▶ 56:19 Jordi Hays And Founders Fund is
- ▶ 1:43:51 Jordi Hays They go out and they're going to meet a lot of investors, but they want to work with founders fund.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 9:47 unnamed speaker Uh, and then, um, Polymarket raises a Series B from Founders Fund with participation from Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, and they raised forty-five million dollars.
- ▶ 16:41 unnamed speaker Uh, they pay for a call out on the podcast and in, and ads in our daily founders fund where I work separately from pirate wires is invested in poly market.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 6:41 John Coogan Uh, partners at Founders Fund, co-founders of the firm, uh, and they worked with, uh, Elon Musk at PayPal.
- ▶ 1:57:00 Jordi Hays Founders, founders funded the original viral vibe reel.
- ▶ 2:20:45 John Coogan And so he says, changing my morning alarm tone from the Founders Fund opening song to this audio to begin my winter arc.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 1:20:24 John Coogan That's what Founders Fund does a lot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:02 John Coogan Like, I, I, I left being, it was a, it was a big, like, it was the Founders Fund CEO Summit, and, uh, there are a lot of very impressive people there, um, but he was someone that really, really stood out as a very, very interesting, like,…
- ▶ 2:17:07 John Coogan Let's go to my colleague, Bridget Harris over at Founders Fund.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 25:31 Jordi Hays Because like it needs to, I mean, Founders Fund basically already does this.
- ▶ 1:33:39 John Coogan Delphi, uh, founders fund portfolio company.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 31:43 John Coogan Uh, Kleiner, Sequoia, and Founders Fund. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:00 John Coogan When I first read it, uh, I'm going to keep it anonymous, but someone, uh, DM me and said, where does founders fund keep its cash between investments? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:49 John Coogan Let's go to Trey Stevens, one of my colleagues at Founders Fund, says, what do we want?
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 45:56 John Coogan Uh, Delian, uh, my colleague at Founders Fund says, uh, hell
- ▶ 1:23:16 John Coogan Uh, let's go to Trey Stevens, another one of my colleagues at Founders Fund. 2 times in the scene
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 8:28 John Coogan Um, but, uh, they were recapping some of the, some of the political news, and they said, last week, the most far out faction of tech's burgeoning right wing gathered in Miami Beach for Hereticon, Founders Fund's celebration of radical free…
- ▶ 1:55:03 Jordi Hays Put it in the Founders Fund office purely as being willing to look stupid or silly. 3 times in the scene
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 11:31 John Coogan And like Founders Fund has a bunch of vets there and has been like bouncing around that generally.
- ▶ 1:19:58 John Coogan We, we had,, we had a hackathon or a land party at Fat Founders Fund.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 18:32 Jordi Hays But I guarantee you it will result in a massive return from Founders Fund and the other VCs that were there, right?
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