Slow Ventures

“Sam's the master of, like, throwing in some kind of, like, snarky little bit to his, like, screenshot essay just to kind of get people's hackles up, and that actually drives engagement, so good content marketing.”

“So Yoni and Slow's big bet was Metropolis. Which was a SAS company for parking garages. And they sort of realized that they realized that there was sort of like a terminal sort of value for their business. And they were like, why don't we just become an operat…”

“So Baldo less than two weeks ago, relatively unknown Cornell student starts aggressively replying to our posts. And last time I checked, he was followed by Mark Andreessen, Turner, Novak, Yoni at slow. So many major Fund managers.”

“Whenever SoftBank buys, you sell. Right. Like they are the worst investors in the history of the world. Right. And so it's just like, I've watched them crush so many companies by over capitalizing them by get, they're like, you know, they, it's hilarious. I lo…”

“And the tagline is AI is not your mode. And it's just like, we were just driving on the one-on-one and every fucking billboard is like AI this, AI that. And we're like, this is just like piles of money burning on the one-on-one. So we decided to burn a little …”

“The seed business model we run is definitely less consistently and meaningfully profitable than like being a, in a platform. There's no question, right?”

“We just announced this sixty five million dollar vehicle, which is pretty groundbreaking, right? What we invest in is not C corps. We invest in seed creators.”

“One is team shares. We see that from zero. I bought four, I bought tempers on the company originally for 400,000 dollars, right? We've kind of bought up from there. They've acquired well over a hundred small businesses.”

“I totally buy the thesis that you're going to see individuals that have a lot of trust and brand and community and deeply understand a niche. Do things you haven't seen before. Like, I buy the one person billion dollar company thing. Like, I think that's real …”

“He actually took out a physical billboard on the one-on-one like with all, like amongst all of these like advertisements for AI companies that says, AI is not your moat. Like love slow kind of thing.”