Guy Oseary

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"My name is Guy Oseary from Maverick and also Sound Ventures."

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"And Hugging Face. I didn't know that. We put a lot of money into Anthropic on the way up. We put a lot of money into OpenAI on the way up."

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"When Napster first started, I met with Shawn and Shawn when they started because it was so exciting to see people were all downloading music, but it was illegal."

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"Daniel Ek in Stockholm built Spotify and figured out that people would pay for music if you give it to them in this way where they had all the music in the world. He was right. They have paid for it. Now, are all the payment plans there picture perfect? No. But it is the core of where money is coming in today — to music artists through streaming."

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"My friend Seth Goldman brought me Vitamin Water. So those were all going to be my first three investments. I never did my deal with Vitamin Water, which ended up being massive."

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"There's a company called Vita Coco, out of New York. And I go, 'Count me in.' I got on a plane. I went to meet with the founder, Mike Kirban. The company was a $35 million valuation at the time. And I went in really big. I brought Madonna into that. I brought Demi Moore. I brought Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Kiedis. We brought a bunch of people into this thing because they were all healthy people who drink coconut water."

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"Bill Gross ran an incubator called Idealab in Pasadena. And I just loved it. I loved the idea of a lot of ideas. Reminded me of the record label, where you had all these artists and all these project managers. And so he was building all these different companies, and I would go in and out of ones that I could be helpful to."

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"I called Ashton and said, 'Ashton, this is it. OpenAI, we're doing OpenAI. This is the greatest thing I've ever seen. We have to do it.'"

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"We're still using Uber and Airbnb and Spotify — we're still using those things from that time period."

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"We're still using Uber and Airbnb and Spotify — we're still using those things from that time period."

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"I found out that they were going to do Anthropic and they were very bullish about it. And I found out from a friend — a headhunter — that everyone's going to this company called Anthropic. People are really going to this Anthropic place and they're not going anywhere else. So I asked Paul and John to connect me with this founder, Dario. They come here in this room and that's where we made the deal to invest in Anthropic."

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"When Ashton and I invested in Bitcoin on our own, when it was at $22, and then when it hit $250, I thought I just made 10 times my money. I'm a genius. So I sold then — and clearly not a genius."

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"Elon invited Anthony from the Chili Peppers to see SpaceX in the very early days. I went with Anthony — I was so wowed by the concept that I didn't even pay attention to the business model. I really wish I just would have asked one more question: 'How do you monetize this? Can we invest?'"

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"I'm very close to Mark Benioff and Salesforce Ventures. People don't really understand how smart they are — they don't get all the press, but they are one of the best investors in the world."

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"I was reading in a magazine about Sky Dayton and it said he started Earthlink and he was worth $100 million."

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"Every time I read about the company and it's now at a $5 billion valuation and next thing you know it's at a $10 billion valuation and it's all built off of the world's music, but yet not one music artist has gotten a dollar. So that's not okay."