Founders
This dude built Facemash in the early 2000s
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
This founder's recent conviction appeal was denied after she defrauded investors about her company's blood-testing technology.
Haiku Describing this tech:
Life feels uncertain.
Hello singularity?
Rest in peace to SWEs
What is a LLM?
A stripper pole ($100 million ARR in 12 months WTF)
What is Cursor?
One of the greatest firms of all time, founded in 1972 and named after a tree.
What is Sequoia Capital?
This NYU alum founded a hot takes factory before building a fintech named after a quadrilateral.
Who is Jack Dorsey?
This founder was charged with fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering after his crypto exchange went bankrupt in late 2022.
Who is SBF?
Pioneered by Amazon in the mid 2000s, this technology has provided a way for companies to scale storage and compute.
What is cloud computing?
This company wants to increase the GDP of the internet and REFUSES to go public.
What is Stripe?
One of the all time great firms. It recently made a very controversial hire of a guy whose last name is worth 1 cent.
This founder of Angellist is widely considered an inspirational voice in the tech community for his takes on takes on wealth creation, happiness, and personal development
Who is Naval Ravikant?
These cool co-working spaces had a not-so-cool business model. After filing for bankruptcy in 2023, its ousted founder made a $500 million for the company
What is Wework?
Satellite constellations bringing internet to everyone!
What is Starlink?
This HR and payroll platform planted a spy in its biggest competitor. They were sued a few days.
What is Deel?
Recently rumored to be considering an IPO, this firm's notable investments include Airbnb, Stripe, and Hubspot.
What is General Catalyst?
One of the greatest VR engineers of all time who is now building one of the defining defense tech companies now valued at $28 billion.
Who is Palmer Luckey?
This dot com bubble darling that sold pet supplies online raised $300 million dollars, was known for its sock puppet mascot, and shut down less than 2 years after founding.
What was pets.com?
Price decreases and duration improvement from this energy-storing technology have enabled innovations in EVs and Grid Storage
What are Lithium-Ion batteries?
This Humanoid robot company raised $675 million at a $2.6 billion valuation in February of last year.
What is Figure AI?
This dude seems to have unlimited money to throw around. He once invested 4.4 billion after 4 minutes of meeting a founder.
Who is Masayoshi Son?
These are 5 members of the PayPal Mafia (name any 5).
Who are Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Keith Rabois, David Sacks, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, Roelof Botha, Jeremy Stoppelman, Russel Simmons, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Dave McClure, Premal Shah, Jack Selbym, Yishan Wong, Scott Banister, Eric M. Jackson, Yu Pan?
This short-form mobile streaming service raised 1.75 billion before shutting down in only 6 months.
What was Quibi?
The new state of matter that Microsoft allegedly uses in its new Majorana 1 chips
What are topological superconductors or "topocondutors"?
Examples: Ramp, Wiz, Datadog, Bilt Rewards, Alphasense, Etsy, WeWork, ZocDoc, Clay, Runway AI, Warby Parker, Blue Apron, Glossier, SeatGeek, MongoDB, Hugging Face, Peleton, UiPath
Led by Chris Sacca, this was one of the highest returning funds of all time (250x return), including investments in Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, Stripe, and Kickstarter.
What was Lowercase Capital Fund 1?