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So Stripe took a, you know, raised around and, you know, less than what it was previously trading at. So what? At the end of the day, if Stripe is one of the most valuable companies in the world, then amazing. Right.
Like Dylan, right? Like for Figma. Okay. They blocked the acquisition. Dylan's still going to have an amazing company. He's still building said company. He's not going to sit there and going like, oh, wine wine. This didn't happen. No. It's like, okay, that's the, that's the current situation. We're building this company to be bigger and better than ever. Right. So huge respect to somebody like that.
So Trey and Palmer, you know, we were the first investors in Oculus, right? And that's how we got to know Palmer, right? We invited him to one of our, you know, let's get together with all of our portfolio founders and hang out and play paintball kind of events. And he met Trey at that event. And then they were both, you know, being like, oh man, nothing really good exists in defense. This is really important. Boom, founding of Andurl. And I don't think you do this every day, right? But you do t
Part of adapt or die is play the game. Don't cry about the game. And so we love the founders that don't cry about the game.
but remember, venture capital is upside maximization. So sometimes if you're an investor who's like, Oh, maybe don't take that chance. Cause we don't want this investment to go down. Honestly, I don't ever think about that. I just don't think about that. It's like, Oh, great. Yes. If, as long as it's legal and as long as, you know, playing within some guidelines, it's like, okay, yeah, take that risk. I'm all about it, right? Like we are all about the founders who also want to take that risk wit
we've put SpaceX in multiple funds, we don't really think through reserves in a fund, we think through make put most money into best companies possible at best price possible. And maybe that's one of our own companies. And maybe we've invested a previous fund, but great. So we'll put it in the next one, like founders on two owned 10% of SpaceX or whatever that didn't stop founders from four founders from five founders from growth, founders from growth to, you know, from investing in SpaceX, righ
I think the smart founders, the best founders get to know you as much as you're getting to know them. And then it just becomes clear. Nope, they want to work with us. I mean, it was the same with the Stripe Round and the same with all of these amazing companies that it was just clear that they wanted to work with us as much as we wanted to work with them.
I mean, I mentioned before that we've put SpaceX in multiple funds, we don't really think through reserves in a fund, we think through make put most money into best companies possible at best price possible. And maybe that's one of our own companies. And maybe we've invested a previous fund, but great. So we'll put it in the next one, like founders on two owned 10% of SpaceX or whatever that didn't stop founders from four founders from five founders from growth, founders from growth to, you know
I can take you through SpaceX because it's actually the thing that attracted me to the fund in the first place. I was doing my own small fund while still at Google, made friends with Sean Parker. And he was like, hey, come check out what we're doing over here at Founders Fund. That's the time when they were starting to consider investing in this ridiculous rocket company called SpaceX. I got to tell you, when we were looking at that, obviously, those guys knew Elon extremely well from the PayPal