LaBossiere Podcast

Miles Grimshaw is a Partner at Thrive Capital, an investment firm that builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies. Thrive recently closed on $5BN in new funds and also announced Thrive Holdings, a permanent capital vehicle to invest in, acquire, and operate businesses for the long term with the strategic application of technology. During his time at Thrive, Miles ha...

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 es...

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. Before Replit, Amjad was a tech lead on the JavaScript infrastructure team (which he helped start) at Facebook, where he contributed t...

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. She was pr...

Keith Rabois is a Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash and Affirm. He has early stakes in YouTube, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Wish, and also led investments in Faire, Ramp, Trade Republic, and Stripe. He’s regarded as one of the...

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus dollar companies: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Flexport, Instacart, Notion, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe… I could really go on. He’s now managing a new billion dollar venture fund, for which he’s the sole investor. Elad is also the co-fou...

Erik Torenberg is a technology entrepreneur and investor. Presently, he’s the founder of Turpentine . Previously, he was the chairman of On Deck , co-founder and general partner at  Village Global , and first employee at  Product Hunt . 0:00 - Intro 5:08 - On Investing vs Operating and Being a Player 7:34 - Trust and Direct Distribution 10:45 - Legacy Media and the Techlash 17:24 - What is Turpent...

Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Through his Project Blueprint, Johnson has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of 18 year olds, inflammation 66% lower than the average 10 year old, and reduced his speed of aging by the equivalent of 31 years. Johnson freely shares his protocols and data public...

Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano is an entrepreneur and technology investor. He runs his family office which makes private investments, along with owning majority stakes in a number of operating businesses. Additionally, Pomp hosts popular conversations on “The Pomp Podcast,” which has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Pomp also writes a letter that is read by more than 250,000 investors each mo...

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He’s the author of 8 books, including The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. His next book, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing, will be published by the Cato Institute in 2024. He’s the editor a...

Delian Asparouhov is the co-founder, President and Chairman of Varda Space Industries, a company building spacecraft to manufacture materials in microgravity that are difficult or impossible to produce on Earth— starting with pharmaceuticals. He’s also a Partner at Founders Fund. Previously, he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company cal...

Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. 0:00 - Intro 2:42 - Intelligent Life in the Universe 7:30 - Grabby Aliens: A Primer 15:29 - Elites and the End of Global Coordination 18:59 - 6 Hard Steps for the Emergence of Life 22:11 - The Probability of Aliens 33:05 - Domesticating Humans 38:08 - Signaling and the Elephant in t...

Chris Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, and the co-author of The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk. 0:00 - Intro 2:29 - How Long Will H...

Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash and Affirm. He has early stakes in YouTube, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Wish, and also led investments in Faire, Ramp, Trade Republic, and Stripe. He’s regarded as one of the gr...

Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist and writer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highly regulated industries, and the founder of political consulting firm Tusk Strategies. Bradley’s family foundation is funding and leading the national campaign to bring mobile...

Jeff Morris Jr is the Managing Partner at Chapter One, an early stage venture capital fund. He’s formerly the VP of Product and Revenue at Tinder, which he helped scale to become the #1 grossing app in the world. 0:00 - Intro 1:57 - Growing up in Silicon Valley 5:01 - Writing, Hollywood, and Tech 13:15 - AI and the Future of Content 21:20 - Dating Apps Today and Time at Tinder 29:26 - Future of Pr...

On founding versus Investing, parenting, indexing knowledge, collective intelligence, and good questions.

On optimism, progress in technology, drivers of stagnation, and how to think about innovation.

On Immortal societies, civilizational decline, the longevity of information, and academia.

On apologies, academia, quitting, critical thinking, and scaling great ideas.

On the internet’s biggest problems, social networks as open protocols, and pseudonymity online.

On risk, thesis-driven investment, and what Kyle thinks people aren’t thinking about enough.

On falling into tech, communication protocols, pseudonymity and reputation.

On conviction, decentralization, and writing online.

On marketplaces, community-owned networks, and the future of work.