Brian Singerman
Former partner at Founders Fund known for concentrated, founder-quality-driven investments in SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, and others.
“Brian Singerman... his point was the wealth tax will actually start to hit the middle class more and hurt the middle class more than the top 1% or top .001%.”
Source→“Miles Clements cited Singerman's view that large growth-stage checks into the biggest AI companies can still outperform all other investors.”
Source→“If SpaceX didn't work... Founders Fund would not exist. Like, we bet our careers essentially on SpaceX, and I love that.”
“Alex Karp — Mentioned alongside Banister and Luckey as a genuinely authentic founder”
“Palmer Luckey is one of the most honest real people that there is.”
“Alex Karp is definitely another one... you would never be able to tell from how tech media or mainstream media characterize people who genuinely is off.”
Source→“I was going to leave Google, raise my, you know, raise another fund, raise a bigger fund, became friends with Sean. And then he said like, hey, why don't you come take a look at what we're doing at Founders Fund.”
Source→“StemCentrics was one of your first exits?... Maybe. It was one of the first bigger exits. But I don't know anything about biotech, right? That was just a bet on it because I knew how good the team was... I just never seen another CEO of a biotech company like that.”
Source→“If SpaceX didn't work, Founders Fund would not exist. We bet our careers essentially on SpaceX.”
Source→“I spent a really good amount of time with her and the Long Journey Venture team. Shout out to Long Journey.”
Source→“Napoleon is probably one of the best in the world at being able to like really do that and understand the company. Great. There's his edge. It's not my edge. I don't put skill points into it.”
Source→“We just did a walkthrough tour of Impulse... we did a walking tour of that facility... I asked him, I was like, did you know when you started rolling out Starlink that it was going to be this big? He said, absolutely.”
Source→“We put like 30-something percent of... $75 million of a $240 million fund at a billion dollar valuation.”
Source→“There's a reason why Peter Thiel is the greatest venture capitalist in history... he built up a team full of people who were having nothing in common in terms of how we saw the world, but also were truly our own individual characters who could absolutely push back on him.”
Source→“When I did get to meet Elon and learn more about SpaceX, it was extremely clear that there was nobody else like him on the planet who could actually pull something like SpaceX off... There's never been anybody like that in the history of this world.”
Source→“It's like Levchin kind of right in some ways. Because he could be a CTO and he is a great CEO... Max escaped communism as a kid. He's not interested in going back to this.”
Source→“Palmer Luckey is one of the most honest, like real people that there is... Palmer is one of the most talented from a like visionary crazy product idea that could actually work... He is also Palmer also knows what he is really good at and what he needs to supplement.”
Source→“Cyan Bannister is one of the most authentic people. One of the most pure authentic people like in the world. She is just her.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.