by Alex LaBossiere
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April 10, 2025
<p>Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. Before establishing A*, Kevin co-founded Eventbrite and guided the company as CEO for its first 11 years before it went public. His entrepreneurial journey also includes co-founding Xoom, a digital money transfer service that PayPal acquired in 2015 for over $1 billion. Kevin has established himself as a successful angel investor with seed investments in companies like PayPal, Airbnb, Pinterest, Ramp, Trulia, and Anduril. His investment portfolio also includes early stakes in prominent companies such as Uber, Palantir, SpaceX, Square, Gusto, and numerous others.</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 - Intro</p><p>04:25 - Kevin's North Star</p><p>06:27 - The Bottleneck to Entrepreneurship</p><p>09:20 - The Explosion of Capital in Private Technology Markets</p><p>11:52 - Monopolies and the Shift in Private Enterprise Value Distribution</p><p>15:18 - Do Public Markets Price Themselves In?16:37 - When Is VC a Suitable Capital Instrument?19:09 - Agglomeration and The Future of Venture Capital20:56 - Cost of Capital and Competing in Venture23:09 - Is Value-Add Real?25:33 - On IPOing</p><p>27:14 - Picking and Magnitude of Outcomes</p><p>28:41 - Founders and Investors as Personality Types</p><p>29:56 - Seed and Growth Investing as Distinct Skillsets</p><p>32:02 - Incubations</p><p>33:56 - Symptoms of Excess Capital35:55 - Can You Kingmake With Capital?</p><p>37:17 - When Does It Make Sense to Raise a Huge Round?</p><p>38:17 - Capital Efficiency39:39 - The Expansion of Technology Markets</p><p>41:51 - Capital Innovation in Venture</p><p>43:47 - The Endgame of Evaluation</p><p>44:33 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?</p><p><br></p><p>🎙️More Episodes🎙️</p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://bit.ly/3QDLQFt" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/3QDLQFt</a></p><p>Apple: <a href="https://apple.co/478Be6M" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://apple.co/478Be6M</a></p><p>Spotify: <a href="https://spoti.fi/3sfiFiE" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://spoti.fi/3sfiFiE</a></p><p><br></p><p>📲Socials📲</p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/adlabossiere" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/adlabossiere</a></p><p>Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/</a></p>
March 20, 2025
<p>Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a programming environment for everyone that allows anyone to write and deploy code, regardless of experience. Replit has 34 million users globally and is one of the fastest-growing developer communities in the world.</p><p><br></p><p>Before Replit, Amjad was a tech lead on the JavaScript infrastructure team (which he helped start) at Facebook, where he contributed to popular open-source developer tools. Additionally, he played a key role as a founding engineer at the online coding school Codecademy.</p><p><br></p><p>0:00 - Intro4:31 - Utopia, Dystopia, and Life in a Post-AI World11:28 - Replit and Expressiveness in Computing17:01 - Balancing Accessibility and Control in Products19:53 - Is AI a Sustaining or Disruptive Technology?25:04 - Building With AI and the Future of Company Structure29:32 - The Shape and Defensibility of Software in a World of AI33:37 - The Nation State and Stagnation in the Physical World38:28 - Technology and Resilience41:54 - What Shouldn't Get Automated?43:54 - What Becomes Valuable in a Post-AI World?47:10 - AI Augmenting vs Competing with Humans51:51 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?</p><p><br></p><p>🎙️More Episodes🎙️YouTube: <a href="https://bit.ly/3QDLQFt">https://bit.ly/3QDLQFt</a>Apple: <a href="https://apple.co/478Be6M">https://apple.co/478Be6M</a>Spotify: <a href="https://spoti.fi/3sfiFiE">https://spoti.fi/3sfiFiE</a></p><p>📲Socials📲</p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/adlabossiere">https://twitter.com/adlabossiere</a></p><p>Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/</a></p>
March 6, 2025
<p>Katherine Boyle is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and cofounder of the firm’s American Dynamism practice, which invests in companies supporting the national interest across aerospace, defense, manufacturing, energy, logistics, and critical infrastructure. She sits on the boards of Apex Space and Hadrian Automation and is a board observer for Saronic Technologies and Castelion.</p><p><br /></p><p>She was previously a partner at General Catalyst, where she co-led the firm’s seed practice and invested in the inception rounds of defense technology companies including Anduril Industries and Vannevar Labs. Prior to General Catalyst, she was a general assignment reporter at The Washington Post. Katherine holds a BA in Government from Georgetown University, an MBA from Stanford and a Masters of Public Advocacy from the National University of Ireland, Galway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Katherine believes that free speech is essential to promoting American Dynamism. She is a proud champion of new media companies and academic centers that promote free speech and free thought. She serves on the boards of The Free Press and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.</p><p><br /></p><p>0:00 - Intro4:48 - The Decline in Public Service7:47 - Making Government Cool Again10:07 - Silicon Valley’s Aversion to National Security13:15 - Positive Sum vs Zero Sum Cultures16:27 - China, Authoritarianism, and Doing Hard Things19:27 - What Makes America Special?23:03 - Silicon Valley and the “Real Economy”26:28 - Investing in Mature Markets29:08 - Vanna White and The Wheel of Fortune30:27 - Journalism and Loneliness32:52 - Time and Suffering38:10 - Seriousness and Purpose41:11 - Is Culture Downstream of Technology?42:48 - Propaganda and Coolness as a Strategic Asset44:40 - Florida, Texas, and Regulatory Arbitrage47:51 - DC, Silicon Valley, and Florida50:20 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?</p><p><br /></p><p>🎙️More Episodes🎙️YouTube: https://bit.ly/3QDLQFtApple: https://apple.co/478Be6MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3sfiFiE</p><p><br /></p><p>📲Socials📲Twitter: https://x.com/adlabossiereLinkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/</a></p>
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