Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕
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Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕
@DStrachman
Bringing freedom & autonomy to young people. Built @thielfellowship and @1517fund. First investor @lambdaAPI @loom @Mach_Industries @RainmakerCorp @positron_ai

the urge you feel to scroll is just your urge to turn pages in a book. be less of a doom-scroller and more of a page-turner

2E is back! Our fall camp in San Francisco for irrationally passionate teens. Know a geeky teen (can be in any area)? Encourage them to apply by August 2nd -- it could literally change their life! See our post about 2E in the comments.

It's wild this keeps happening with LETTUCE, one of the easiest crops in the world to grow at home no matter what you living situation is. If you grow anything, grow your own greens 🤦🏽♂️


The French are building statues for the USA once again!










the kids (9 & 8) asked for a computer so I made a quest for them: build an Apple 1 from scratch and get a MacBook Air. kit just arrrived, I’ll keep you posted

2E is back! Our fall camp in San Francisco for irrationally passionate teens. Know a geeky teen (can be in any area)? Encourage them to apply by August 2nd -- it could literally change their life! See our post about 2E in the comments.



NEW: Cyan Banister's Legendary Track Record Her first investment ever? SpaceX. In 2007, she invested every dollar she had into SpaceX & never sold. Combined, @cyantist & Scott Banister are easily the #1 angel investors in the world. SpaceX. Anduril. Uber. PayPal. Affirm. Flexport. Postmates. Niantic. Opendoor. Carta. Together AI. Diamond Foundry. Crusoe. Flock Safety. Substrate. Brave. Depop. Calm. TrueMed. Turing. Crusoe Cyan spent 4 years at Founders Fund, now Co-Founder & General Partner, @LongJourneyVC Plus Founders Fund's Mafia, beating Phil Hellmuth in poker live, & free speech as her number one cause. We cover › The space between your values & your actions › Human beings as why machines › Why Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection › Peter Thiel University › Nanotech & biotech 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Cyan Banister, Long Journey Ventures (01:13) Inside Long Journey HQ (02:17) The wild story behind the office mural (05:32) What Cyan's actual house looks like (07:18) The candle ritual (08:08) What the Long Journey logo actually means (10:41) Mafia's breakout stars (14:45) Cyan's strategy (16:30) What really happens off-camera at Mafia (18:58) The blooper reel nobody's seen yet (23:54) Brian Singerman x $40 /mo board game club (29:10) Confessions of an accidental poker legend (33:37) What relentless optimism reveals about people (35:42) Why so many people are scared to be weird (37:32) The daily ritual she prescribes to everyone (43:56) The "why" behind her biggest investments (50:49) Why sci-fi movies keep predicting the future (53:37) Should you even go to college right now? (59:58) Unconventional investing philosophy (1:01:57) Full list of Cyan's investments (1:04:28) All-in on SpaceX (1:08:57) Why she never sold a single SpaceX share (1:12:53) Top Bets: Becoming Bio + Substrate (1:15:52) America's reindustrialization moment is now (1:19:16) Cyan's mentors (1:22:54) Manifesting Rick Rubin (1:24:00) Real take on the Peter Thiel events


2E is back! Our fall camp in San Francisco for irrationally passionate teens. Know a geeky teen (can be in any area)? Encourage them to apply by August 2nd -- it could literally change their life! See our post about 2E in the comments.

What's the right amount of childhood trauma to guarantee success? The answer may surprise you I promise this is actually a very wholesome conversation with Danielle Strachman (Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund) about education and parenting









