Founders Fund
A venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across various stages and sectors.
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How Founders Fund compares
4 creators weighed in
Sequoia
Direct rival
elite venture capital firm
Both are top-tier VC firms. Trae says Founders Fund kept a simpler fund structure, skipping the evergreen strategies Sequoia and others adopted.
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Both are top-tier VC firms. Trae says Founders Fund kept a simpler fund structure, skipping the evergreen strategies Sequoia and others adopted.
"How do you think about trying to get into the big names, the Sequoias, the Benchmarks, the Founders Funds?"
Grouped with Sequoia and Benchmark as elite VC brand names
"The fund is doing really well. We have a main venture fund and a growth fund. We have awesome names in both of those. We're still very bullish about the companies that we're investing in even if we are a little bit more bearish on the ma..."
Compared to Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, General Catalyst, and Sequoia's evergreen fund strategies, which Founders Fund has chosen not to replicate
Benchmark
Direct rival
early-stage venture capital firm
Founders Fund pledges never to remove a founder; David says Benchmark went against Travis Kalanick.
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Founders Fund pledges never to remove a founder; David says Benchmark went against Travis Kalanick.
"Whatever you can put in a Founders Fund, you should put in a Founders Fund. But good luck getting a big enough check in."
Contrasted with equal partnership models like Benchmark
"Founders Fund says they no matter what will never remove a founder, will not do a warfare war room against them."
Contrasted with Benchmark Capital's behavior toward Travis Kalanick
What creators say
"How do you think about trying to get into the big names, the Sequoias, the Benchmarks, the Founders Funds?"
More from Harry Stebbings →"At KV and this is true at Founders Fund too — we wake up and say is this going to have a positive impact in society?"
More from Keith Rabois →"Whatever you can put in a Founders Fund, you should put in a Founders Fund. But good luck getting a big enough check in."
More from Brian Singerman →"Unlike my good friends at Founders Fund, I don't have an instinct to be contrarian, but I do think it is fundamental to decide what you think and not worry too much about what other people think."
More from Sarah Guo →"Because I worked at Founders Fund 16 years ago, I have carry in Founders Fund 2. When we started our second secondary fund, I rolled in about a million dollars of GP commit in that fund. Turns out that was all SpaceX."
More from Dave McClure →
"Founders Fund says they no matter what will never remove a founder, will not do a warfare war room against them."
More from David Senra →
"There are funds like Founders Fund with Thiel has this saying about how he told everyone for a year just go to the beach because we don't want to make any investments."
More from John Coogan →+1 more mention from John
"I went over to Founders Fund to become an entrepreneur in residence and that gave me a lot of free time to explore what was next."
"The fund is doing really well. We have a main venture fund and a growth fund. We have awesome names in both of those. We're still very bullish about the companies that we're investing in even if we are a little bit more bearish on the macro."
More from Trae Stephens →"Gosh, if I had the opportunity to join one of the greatest venture capital firms in the history of world, it would have been silly to not take advantage of that."
More from Sam Blond →"The fact that we're a Founders Fund company has made so many other investors want to invest in Flexport. Founders Fund led our Series A, participated in the C or D, and led our E."
More from Ryan Petersen →"Peter exited PayPal, set up Founders Fund. This is now I think 2005, and Luke Nosek becomes one of the first partners."
More from Sebastian Mallaby →
"Scott Nolan is a partner at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund"
More from Joe Lonsdale →+1 more mention from Joe
"You were a principal at Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's fund."
"They marked up the deal very quickly almost 2x from Founders Fund but when Founders Fund invested had no revenue."
More from Jason Lemkin →"It was at Founders Fund because SpaceX and DeepMind were both part of the same portfolio that Peter Thiel had at Founders Fund."
More from Demis Hassabis →
"When I joined Founders Fund, the very first deal that I saw in motion was the post ChatGPT round in OpenAI."
More from TBPN →+1 more mention from TBPN
"When I joined Founders Fund, the very first deal that I saw in motion at Founders Fund was the post ChatGPT round in OpenAI."
"The venture capital thing we started Founders Fund 2005, I've been doing this for 20 plus years."
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