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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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Clear filters"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."
"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"
"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."
"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."