Sam Stoddard

@EthanChoi7 Excellent! When do I get to listen to a one-off podcast episode of you and @kwharrison13 discussing topics like these? 🙏🏻

“OK boys, you keep this up and y’all getting baptized at the nearest stake center when this is over” #GoCougs #BYUFootball

@TheDanJimenez Deacons and teachers might be able to do that too, you’d have to check though

Now having watched this, I should probably get a priest or bishop to come cast that energy out of my house

@joshuabrowder Congratulations @joshuabrowder !

Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen and top institutions back New $30m Browder Capital Fund Four: Today, I’m excited to announce that I’ve raised Browder Capital Fund Four, a $30,000,000 fund backed by Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Arthur Patterson (founder of Accel), Walter Kortschak (founder of SignalFire) and some of the world’s top institutional investors, including Cendana Capital, General Endowment Management, Level Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures (Nomads), and Slipstream. I’m an accidental investor. In 2018, I stopped out of Stanford to take the Thiel Fellowship. One in ten Fellows goes on to build a billion dollar company. That’s how I met Adam Guild. I didn’t have a fund. I didn’t have any real savings. But my Thiel Fellowship payment had just hit my bank account. So I decided to invest it into Adam’s company as his first investor. Yesterday, that company, Owner, announced their Series C at a $1 billion valuation. Since then, I’ve been lucky to back many of the best young founders across previous funds (Whop, Wander, Assured, Pilgrim, Yuzu Health, Micro1, among many others), including other unannounced pre-seeds to unicorns. Indeed, Browder Capital is an investor in more Thiel Fellows than any other person or fund, including 50% from last year’s class (2023). While many funds back dozens of startups at once, often chasing hype, I prefer to go all in on one overlooked technical founder at a time. I’ve hosted 19 year old strangers at my apartment, put their visas on my personal credit card, co-signed their first leases. Whatever it takes to get them to start their company. Fund Four will double down on that mission: becoming the first believer to rare individuals who build billion dollar companies from scratch.

@TrentMano @vyrotek You could say that

@SamStoddard1 @vyrotek yeah, my understanding as well. seemed to do well from pretty early on?

what are the best examples of companies that took multiple years to find PMF? Figma type stories

@TrentMano @vyrotek Probably a perfect example of a company/market/founder situation that Venture was built for

@vyrotek I surprisingly don’t know the early days story of Qualtrics well enough. Were they a wander in the wilderness sort of story? The major growth for sure happened a decade in though.

@dylan_a @TrentMano Sending you a message now!

@TrentMano @SamStoddard1 @SamStoddard1 would seriously LOVE to chat

Anybody know an immigration attorney they trust & would recommend? dm me or comment below please 🙏

@kwharrison13 It’s incredibly sad, there are many stories of situations in Utah just an insane as this one and some even more ridiculous and tragic

C’mon! What are we doing here?!

@kwharrison13 Flying into White Plains, on your way to Stamford? This guy LPs!

VCs exist because founders don't want to travel to Des Moines, Stamford, Charlotte, Cleveland, or Salt Lake to get money from the LPs. Otherwise they could just go get it themselves.

@sterlingcobb Their HQ is incredible

I’m at the #cloudflare community night. Really great to talk to amazing people in the space

@TrentMano Made the mistake of watching this on a flight, ugly crying most of the movie

Bummed that Sundance is leaving. Saw many great and many horrible films there. Seeing The Farewell by Lulu Wang was such a wonderful memory for my wife and I.

@anuatluru “In a time of need, leaders pop up among us like mushrooms” - John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

What’s the best line you read this week? One sentence (max two). Tag or share the source. 🙏

It's coming! @UTtechweek is Jan 27 - Feb 1, 2025. 77 events on the official page already. Will be >200 events by the week of.

@levie @Chasramp I’ve herd legends of guys like this 👆

This guy needs to start an AI lab and raise at $1B pre money as soon as possible

@TrentMano The best! It always feels like you’re playing pickup with a D1 athlete. I thought I could hang, but oh boy, I cannot even do the warmups

my favorite people are ones I can spar with for hours

@thogge Yoon Haeundae Galbi - 8 W 36th St. in Midtown, you won’t be disappointed

24 hours in NYC Where should I eat dinner tonight? I did quality meats last time. Where else would I love?

Look for protests across South Korea over the next 2-3 weeks and I wouldn't be surprised if Pres. Yoon resigns. Seems like he's a better singer than a dictator... youtube.com/watch?v=u-E6Bk…

the opposition Democratic Party (DP), controls 187 seats to Yoon’s ruling People Power Party’s (PPP’s) 108, just 3 short to override the vetos. All this makes Pres. Yoon nervous enough to declare Martial Law, citing "North Korean sympathizing communists".

A little back-story for the lead up to what's happening in South Korea today... Conservative President Yoon wins election in 22. The opposition party wins BIG in the mid-terms and start investigating: 1.) Pres. Yoon's wife's real estate manipulation in her favor, 2.) ... eastasiaforum.org/2024/04/28/sou…