Jack Altman
Host of the Uncapped podcast.
“Benchmark just raised our first growth fund in history”
Source→“some founders skip the traditional seed entirely and raise $50M+ because they can”
Source→“Logora and Harvey... these businesses are at hundreds of millions of ARR growing really fast”
Source→“it's kind of all just going to come down to like who's got the compute”
Source→“1% of GDP was spent per year on highway and telecom... 2% for railroads... this AI build out is like 3.5% of GDP.”
Source→“My good friend Jack Altman who is sort of an entrepreneur.”
Source→“Owner...raised a $240 million round at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation. The deal was led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, and Jack Altman also engaging.”
Source→“Thank you so much for partnering with me on Monaco.”
Source→“Podcast: The a16z Show. Date: 2026-06-16. Participants: Jack Altman.”
Source→“Most of the time when stuff works, it works fast. And I still believe that. And now with my investing, I still mostly think that... when people want what you're selling, you know, kind of quickly, I think. And we just weren't getting the pull.”
Source→“We had the problem right, which was that people management was a problem at startups... but we didn't have the right solution. So we knew the problem. We got the problem right. We had the wrong solution.”
Source→“Cited as a case study throughout — pivoted three times before finding PMF, launched four substantial product lines, raised ~$300M, achieved a ~$3B valuation within five years.”
Source→“At a company like Stripe, they had a couple early, really big customers. I think like Shopify and Lyft who pushed their product roadmap in directions that turned out to be really helpful for a lot of other customers.”
Source→“When I joined Teespring, it was like 10 people or 12 people. And over two years, it became like 300 people.”
Source→“Jack Altman's venture fund. $275M first fund, focused on seed and early-stage investments, with Jack taking board seats at portfolio companies.”
Source→“I'll join boards or lead seeds if it's a seed or whatever. And so it's like a totally different engagement.”
Source→“My co-founder is like programming the ability to end the cycle and share feedback and stuff like they were on the beginning of the roller coaster that didn't yet have the end... he was tired and he got it done.”
Source→“Jack Altman's Uncapped joined Benchmark.”
“Jack Altman just joined, right? And he just did Monaco, which I know well. I'm a small shareholder. And they marked up the deal very quickly, almost 2X from Founders Fund. But when Founders Fund invested, it had no revenue.”
Source→“Jack Altman just joined, right? And he just did Monaco, which I know well. I'm a small shareholder. And they marked up the deal very quickly, almost 2X from Founders Fund.”
Source→“Podcast: Uncapped with Jack Altman, Episode #51, Joe Lonsdale from 8VC”
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