other / built
Founder University
“Well, I created a platform, Founder University, where if you want to build something, I will talk to 200 people that you can build.”
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Books, apps, and tools
other / built
“Well, I created a platform, Founder University, where if you want to build something, I will talk to 200 people that you can build.”
hardware / owns
“But I did buy a one touch espresso machine. I bought a JURA one touch espresso machine, which at the time was like $2000.”
other / likes
“We live in a very volatile time right now. I like the Hall of Fame idea. It's kind of interesting.”
other / built
“I started a magazine called CyberSurfer about dial up because somebody had told me that Star Log and Fangoria, that magazine, wanted to create a magazine about CD roms and dial up.”
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01 / belief
“I think a lot of people were moving towards the center and we codified it for people.”
02 / belief
“I think the politics, regulation, and not appreciating the tech industry is really a problem.”
03 / belief
“I was like okay. They were like, okay, I think we're going to do that. Then they went to $10 a month or whatever.”
04 / belief
“I think what messes people up is the fact that I actually just think Donald Trump is a horrible human who you should do no business with, has no business being in any political office, and is just horrible on any number of levels.”
05 / belief
“For sure. They've done the same number of companies, I think, but just in terms of returns, yes.”
06 / belief
“I do that with my team, the docket, but the docket is built from the five or six stories that people submit to our group chat and say, hey, put this on the docket. I think Sacks has some research help.”
07 / belief
“Somehow she had found it, and this is during the pandemic situation, and that's when I realized it had crossed over.”
08 / belief
“Just like I democratized, angel investing, wrote the book Angel, was the first syndicate on AngelList, the most successful syndicate on AngelList, created my own, got the domain name the syndicate, created the largest one, and have done 265 syndicate deals by far the largest amount of anybody, I think.”
09 / belief
“When you're looking at it, I think you got to look at impact. Impact to the game, let's see.”
10 / belief
“Putting all that together, I think now's the time to democratize venture capital.”
11 / belief
“During that time, you start comparing it to Sequoia or Benchmark. I think in the ark, it will not be comparable to Benchmark and Sequoia.”
12 / belief
“I think Sacks made this point on All-In two weeks ago, which was, if they're paying 50x now and the company is growing, okay, they're paying 20x next year or 25x.”
13 / belief
“Before he was a VC, he was [...] for Lycos and I think CMGI. So there was a Lycos booth, and I had met this young lady at it, we hit it off, and we're talking.”
14 / belief
“In some ways, the world wants us to be enemies. I think about it like the Best of Enemies situation.”
15 / belief
“I think there's like a group of people who want the world to be more unfair than it actually is because it makes them feel more virtual signaling good.”
16 / belief
“Flatiron went with Jerry Colonna then when Jerry wanted to move to Colorado and just chill. He had made enough money I think.”
17 / belief
“I think you're opening up the aperture of who designed softwares for with Figma.”
18 / belief
“At one point Buckley, I think he called him like a sissy or something like really derogatory as a gay man and the world didn't understand.”
19 / belief
“Kara Swisher I think is going to do the pivot stuff and wants to do other stuff.”
20 / belief
“For firms, you do Mount Rushmore. I think if you were just going to say the hall of fame, just the hall of fame.”
21 / belief
“I thought maybe this would last 10–20 episodes, but during the pandemic, I think people wanted information.”
22 / belief
“We'll see what the other two do but I think the two got a chance to go public too.”
23 / belief
“I said, yes? I think that if we're going to have this spirited competition, that's great.”
24 / belief
“I think that gave me the credibility with Sequoia that they said Jason keeps sending us these great deals.”
25 / belief
“I think enthusiasm is contagious. I've always been very enthusiastic about what I do.”
26 / belief
“I would say on the podcast hey, here's a company I'm investing and I'm having them on the podcast.”
27 / belief
“I think that was Brian Avi's joke, it sounds like it's French so let's put an accent on top.”
28 / belief
“I was in both their offices next week and also, Mark Cuban—because I think when we sold, we turned his $150,000 into $5 or $6 million so he said, put me down for a million or whatever you want, Jason.”
29 / belief
“Listen, here's the joke. Denton wound up selling I think for $150 or something like that.”
30 / belief
“The only reason we've had people pick us over Y Combinator and people pick Y Combinator over us or go to Y Combinator then come to us. We're really the only, I think, accelerator, who can say that.”