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Scott Nolan

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Everything Scott personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.

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Spotify mentions 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."
Airbnb mentions software
"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."
The Boring Company mentions other
"to some extent infrastructure like the Boring Company. This is like their their prime thesis."
Napster mentions software
"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."
Adderall mentions product
"So like space launch for example, to some extent defense which you see with Anderoll trying to break that"
Square mentions software
"I thought about dropping out in actually the first or second month of business school to join Square."
Crusoe Energy mentions other
"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"
Planet Labs mentions other
"First investment I ever made was a satellite company, Planet Labs. Then did a lot of different things that were outside of pure software."
Radiant mentions other
"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."