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Draper extends the AI thesis into longevity/organ engineering/synthetic biology/specialized robotics; AI capability -> scientific design -> biology & robotics -> physical products; favors sectors protected by manufacturing/biology/regulation over pure software.
Theranos will become one of the greatest companies in the world.
What happened: Theranos failed spectacularly; it was shut down in 2018, its founder convicted of fraud, and the company no longer exists as a significant entity.
Verify at source ↗Bitcoin has been resilient to all these things... it's just gonna keep being there and keep spreading and as it spreads you know you have a network effect
Elon Musk I mean the best entrepreneur every single one go up every round of every company's ever done he told me we were talking about it and he purposely did exactly what you're saying which is manage the expectations each time but from zip 2 to PayPal and the other two companies obviously that you back to SpaceX Etc everyone up all the way
I invested in the first round of Thumbtack and Uber and um you know that was a $9 million valuation ... it was 9 million combined for the two companies five and four
business has been booming in Arizona really so more people finding out
this company is going to be one of the greatest companies on the earth
it's has approved one test which is the herpes test
this company is really transforming the world
this is going to be one of the great companies of the world no question in my mind
another one of our portfolio companies lift did um a great activation with Justin Bieber around the release of his new album ... it all also gave Lyft um a a a great marketing tool to reach this audience that you know didn't know about the company
I invested in the first round of Thumbtack and Uber and um you know that was a $9 million valuation he goes well we're only asking for 10 it's one more I said I didn't finish my sentence it was 9 million combined for the two companies five and four
people said wow that Uber thing it's worth $50 billion that's going to that gets people's hearts racing and saying hey I can do that why don't I go start a business
that's where i give all the credit to elon musk he he took all of his money and he leveraged it all up and he borrowed from one end to pay for something else and he created a and the one saving opportunity and he did it about i did it i think he did it at least twice for tesla where he laid it all out on the line could have gone completely bankrupt personally but he made it all work and then he was very clever and creative in how he financially drove the business he got people to pay in advance
we invested really in the plan and the plan was we're going to build electric cars and they can give you pretty good range and they are way faster and way more efficient than gas-powered cars so that was a big opportunity and it was quite exciting and boy what an incredible ride that has been
tesla is kind of what we're about uh and maybe spacex we saw just the inkling of a new trend there where electric cars uh could could make you go whoa and all of a sudden it made it you didn't have to be a tree hugger to want to buy an electric car