Brian Singerman

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"The ones that Founders Fund went really really really big on were like SpaceX and Palantir and Airbnb and Stripe and Stemcentrx and Anduril and OpenAI."

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"SpaceX and Palantir and Airbnb and Stripe and Stemcentrx and Anduril and OpenAI — when they have one of these, it doesn't happen every day. You can't put 20% of your fund in every day."

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"Sean would never show up, but he'd stick his head up like every once in a while and say Facebook or Spotify — and you know what, that's pretty freaking good."

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"We were probably the 30th investor in Airbnb, but I think we made the second most amount of money. We were slow on Airbnb. We didn't see it. Once we saw it, we went real big."

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"Anduril is actually a great example of this because I don't think with any single one of the founders — I'm going to call it four founders of Anduril — it's like oh, spiky in every single way. It's the perfect example of a team of people who are very good at different things."

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"It's like the AlphaGo thing — when it beat Go, you talk to these Go pros like 'what?' The moves were completely alien."

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"The Palantir founders all shared — in that era this was really hard to find back then — a hardcore pro-America kind of culture."

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"If you ask like, you know, the Ramp guys or Scott at Cognition, like they're going to be like, 'Yeah, Zack can invest.'"

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"Whatever you can put in a Founders Fund, you should put in a Founders Fund. But good luck getting a big enough check in."

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"If you ask like, you know, the Ramp guys or Scott at Cognition, like they're going to be like, 'Yeah, Zack can invest.'"

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"Founders Fund is the opposite of Benchmark. It was not an equal partnership. I also think that Benchmark is the example of the people that do it best — you are able to do that whole transition if you're not good at that, imagine doing the equal partnership model."

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"I was the first investor in Oculus. Now, that was a screw-up on my part because I didn't go bigger in that."

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"I'm partnering with a guy named Lee Linden who runs Quiet Capital on this. So me and Lee will be your consigliere."