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"I had worked at Boeing during college just saw what the incumbent aerospace industry was like didn't want to work in that didn't believe it was going to change anything."
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"He then went on to more than a decade investing at Founders Fund where he invested in SpaceX and many other of the defining companies of this generation."
"So I was actually at Stanford in business school. Started in 2010, was quickly voted most likely to drop out."
"And so the last year or two I was there was really focused on Dragon and working very closely with NASA because we were going to go dock with I guess the most expensive the most expensive asset mankind had ever developed."
"And in Dragon, we were on the NASA CS program, commercial orbital transportation services. And it was a multiund million dollar program to bring back uh two things capability of launch to space station"
"I had worked at Boeing during college just saw what the incumbent aerospace industry was like didn't want to work in that didn't believe it was going to change anything."
"I thought about dropping out in actually the first or second month of business school to join Square."
"And then really energy where we invested in Crusoe Energy and understood the whole stranded supply of flare gas and what could you do with that"
"First investment I ever made was a satellite company, Planet Labs. Then did a lot of different things that were outside of pure software."
"Sean Parker was on the founders fund team right when I joined and led the Spotify investment. And the internal memo or thread on the Spotify investment was just so wellreasoned."
"and then invested in a company called Radiant which was the inverse stranded demand. How could you serve that demand? Maybe you could serve it with a small microactor."
"Airbnb is a classic huge example. When Founders Fun invested, it was still crossing from kind of a weird backpacking couch surfing like air mattress in someone's living room to what it is today."
"to some extent infrastructure like the Boring Company. This is like their their prime thesis."
"And it was because of this history of like understanding music and doing the Napster thing. And then years and years of trying to find the right company that had the was taking the right formula."
"So like space launch for example, to some extent defense which you see with Anderoll trying to break that"