You Are Not a Lottery Ticket, Book Recommendations, Bucket of Crabs Theory, The Psychedelic Trap

31:40There's only a thousand copies ever made. It's called Rolex Jubilee, and then the subtitle is actually in Latin, but when you translate it from Latin into English, it literally means go with me. And so it's a tiny four volume like history of Rolex and volume one was written by Hans Wilsdorf who is the founder of Rolex so go listen to episode 351 of founders maybe pick up the book try and get a copy I think that will probably hit all three of these and lastly just keep listening to the podcast man we're gonna yeah we're doing our best all three of these every single day we're trying to give a proper analysis of every business ever because we love business.

32:22So in the total history of Technology Brothers, we hope to cover every business at least once, even if it's just one promoted post. Yeah, exactly. Let's go to Based Baron. He says, yeah, I'm Polly. Polly going to beat the shit out of some EA teapot post rat godless virgin if they get up in my grill on this app one more time. And yeah, very funny post. Got him. Getting in fights, getting in fights. We wanted to highlight Based Baron because he claims to be an analyst at Tech Bros Pod. He's not officially affiliated with us, but we're always open to supporters. But as we reviewed your timeline, Based Baron, maybe a little bit too based, a little bit too negative.

33:05We want to keep the momentum up, keep the optimism. Don't want to be the definite pessimist on this show. You want to be optimistic. And a lot of the things you're saying, a lot of the shit you're talking, not unreasonable, but where is it going to get you? Pessimists get clout. Optimists get rich. The key is so Bass Baron, seemingly in group, emerging poster. It's got some good takes. It's got some takes that are kind of trying to take down some of our buddies, things like that. but um here's what i'd say based baron you want to get to the point where uh two years from now when you got a hundred thousand followers people you're you're allowed to share who you really are without burning a bunch of bridges because like at the trajectory that he's posting he's going there oh yeah he's going to 100k for sure that said you've got to make sure to not make too many enemies along the way so that you when you do that big face reveal yep it's like you're sort of confident in doing that and not um you know uh attacking too many people will have uh you know two levels of reaction to an account like this the first one is like haha like dunking on all the you know the lol cows of tech uh and are you familiar with lol cow no it's a it's a person that is uh milked for lols because they're they're they're so downtrodden that you that the whole like it's from 4chan so the 4chan community will pick someone who they just like laugh at endlessly and they just like anything that they do they're just like getting dunked on and then it creates this really vicious cycle but it's all related to the bucket of crabs theory are you familiar with this yeah so yeah the crabs they pull each other down and and as soon as one is about to escape the bucket they the rest of them get pulled down if they were just working together they could lift each other up and so level one is like okay yeah this guy's funny he's got some good dunks he's talking trash.

34:55He's naming names. He's unhinged. That's great. But level two is like, you're revealing that your financials are not intertwined with 25 ,000 different startups. You're not conflicted enough. Not enough conflicts of interest. Yep. Not enough conflicts of interest. Call us once you've LP'd into 25 different funds and can't talk shit about anyone anymore because you're bag holder on even the worst companies. Yeah. So you wouldn't say a word. Right, future-based baron. And we'll definitely ship you the JD when we open up the analyst role. Fantastic. Fantastic. Let's go to Dan Gray. He says, Why are so many startups pitching the same ideas?

35:39This is the result of startup catering, where founders work on the problems they believe VCs care about rather than problems they are connected to. It occurs whenever there is a strong and vocal consensus among investors on the opportunity of the day, e.g. agents, vertical AI, gaming, et cetera. Obviously, this is a negative influence on innovation. The purpose of startups is to build novel solutions, which others are unable to anticipate. Consequently, the best VCs focus at most on broad problem areas rather than solutions. Yeah, interesting. This is something where like, it's always like the bear case for like the YC request for startups.

36:13It's like, are the best founders, do they need that? Or are they already building it? I've built two companies that like didn't fit into any trends at all. And that's been good, but also extremely painful because I haven't been able to just flip them to meta for a hundred million dollars in a year. Extremely painful. Extremely painful, but it's all worked out. And yeah, you gotta have the definite optimist view of the world. And oftentimes that also coincides with the contrarian vision and seeing something different and having everyone tell you that you're wrong for years. And this was the case with Coinbase and Airbnb and Stripe.

36:48oh why are you doing this something already exists unnecessary this isn't trendy the one positive the positive about the yc requests for startups is if you're working at a fang and you see that you're like oh that's interesting and then you that catalyze you catalyzes you into starting a company and then you start that company and maybe you end up pivoting to something else like at least it made you it provided that initial activation energy to get you to go and do it But yeah, I've seen this so much just as an angel investor, seeing people come pitch me an idea. And I'm like, you're hitting all the right buzzwords, but yeah, it's not an original idea.

37:25I've seen a bunch of other pitches for it. And then there's no reason why you should win versus anyone else that's doing this. In fact, it's usually the opposite. it it's like well you picked this idea because you thought you could raise a two million dollar seed round and and and like basically play founder yeah and a lot of times you're a year too late or there's some company that's more well funded in stealth mode or you're just like yeah you're just behind the ball yeah let's do a promoted post promoted post i'm excited for this one we love promoting uh the fantastic inventory over at dupont registry today we're talking about a 2017 Lamborghini Centenario Roadster, one of only 20 produced.

38:06It has a very modest asking price of only$2.9 million. Great spec. Things in white on black. It's got a nice wing on it. Killer. And just like you can tell when something's been specced properly. And this is very intentional, not over the top. And it's got a nice like aero kit on it. And I don't, you know, they're just not making Lamborghinis like this anymore. and this is one at 20 so yeah pick this up this looks like a great vc great for the gp in san francisco yeah make a statement yeah and don't buy this if you live in miami buy this if you live in sf exactly this is a great daily yeah if you're going to be stuck in front of a behind a waymo yeah and you get your sandwich by waymos you want to be in a white lamborghini sentenario roadster uh just to mog the the people yeah uh that i want to hear some that are filming the steering wheel being like oh look it's turning by itself and you're like yeah it turns you know when i do it yeah yeah yeah i want to hear some noise complaints in menlo park and los altos yeah yeah in uh inclined village let's tear it up out there and if you need some driving lessons mkbht oh yeah it's fantastic his videos aren't explicitly driving lessons but he certainly knows read between the lines and when you head to your lamborghini dealership tell them the technology brother sent you uh let's go to lulu she says it's very hard for public company ceos to state their unfiltered beliefs and principles the pressures are immense among public co's it's basically toby luteke brian armstrong and elon musk holding the overton window open yeah we talked about this with the the fuck you money post from mark andreessen like you get so entrenched that saying any unfiltered belief or principle could slice your customer base or your employee base or your investor base.

39:54Like you have like thousands and thousands of constituents. Well, it's more so they're hovering over, they draft a post, they're hovering over the post button. The weight. And then they're thinking, oh, this pension fund or institutional investor owns 4 % of my company. And I'm going to immediately get an email saying, hi, Mark, let me know if you can talk. Yeah. And you're like, okay, great. But I think the key here, so so the interesting thing about the examples that lulu gave yeah is the approaches are dramatically different oh elon very clearly seems to just say whatever he's thinking off the top of his head yep be liberal with emojis yep like you know i don't think he has like posts are not the opinions of any of my companies it's like no the his posts are the opinions of his companies yep and then toby toby is the opposite approach of like seemingly very intentional yep like sort of using his megaphone is like, you know, it's very curated.

40:48It's not, it's not on the fly. Yep. And so both ways work. And Brian too, Brian writes a long post, very thoughtful. He puts a lot of work into it, but it, but he's not afraid to be, um, unfiltered and controversial and controversial. Yeah. I don't even know if unfiltered is the right, like the best thing is to be, is to be, is to be, you can be controversial, but be filtered and tasteful in the delivery of of that. And I do wonder if there's, if this is going to change as more companies go public because, you know, public company CEOs, okay, well, what happens when the annual goes public or what happens when there are a lot of founder led companies right now that just aren't public yet, but we'll may, it'll be probably be easier for them to maintain their unfiltered nature, then retrain an era, a generation of public company CEOs.

41:34It's interesting to think about the x long post and how that's kind of changed the platform from a communication standpoint because if you historically you wanted to share a lot you had to post a thread but then somebody could screenshot one tweet and be like look this guy hates this type of people but then now in a long post it's like it would be disingenuous to not show the full context based on one thing that they said so it actually opens it up yeah it's great uh santiago been on the show before he says you can just not do psychedelics lol bold statement cotton very true we we uh we support this message just because just because psychedelics are popular in silicon valley does not mean you have to do them doesn't even mean that you're going to benefit from them i think we've maybe talked about this on the show but but psychedelics can provide this novel experience that makes people feel like it's super monumental and maybe that they just hadn't put their phone down for a while.

42:32It's like a lot of people, the only time they go for a long hike is when they're taking LSD. So they're like, Oh, this is amazing. But you could just like take the hike. Yeah. The best metaphor was that post we read about, I took so many psychedelics that at a certain point I had a meta epiphany that the drug was just leaning on the epiphany key in my brain. And it was just making me think I'm having an epiphany. I'm having an epiphany. I'm having an epiphany and that's actually not having an epiphany yeah and that same thing happens with a lot of cannabis where it's like oh everything was so funny last night oh tell me the jokes that you were laughing at not funny at all only funny in the moment because it was completely synthetic yeah and so yeah you want to stay away from that yeah and i've talked about this before but when i was in college when i was in college tim ferris was directly or indirectly massively promoting psychedelic, like basically as like a lifestyle to the, one of the biggest podcasts in the world, just telling everybody like how great psychedelics are.

43:31And I think that that's irresponsible. I think it's, I think it's something that can be done, you know, in small circles, uh, but it doesn't need to be on a megaphone. It's degenerate. I agree. Let's go to Bryce. He says, we're in multiple golden agents, ages at once, quoting Jeff Bezos from, uh, this fantastic interview that Bezos did that. There's a great breakdown on David Sendra's X page and he did a whole deep dive on it. Got re-shared by Ivanka Trump, I believe. Or no, no, it got re-shared by Jeff Bezos' wife. That's right, Lauren Sanchez. But I agree with this. Multiple golden ages as once.

44:12We're doing space travel. We're doing AI. We're doing bio. There are a ton of things going Doge. Doge, making the government more efficient. Innovation and government. It is a fantastic time to be alive. I just like that he put this quote out there. It's great. Thank you, Bryce. Thank you. Let's go to Andrew Reed. That's over at Sequoia. He says, although he doesn't have the tag anymore. I got to check that he's still there. He says, never make the same mistake twice. Make it at least three or four times so you're absolutely sure you're wrong, then change your approach. I like it. So I've had this with people like early in my career, not even that, not even that long ago, I would start talking with somebody maybe about investing or partnering in some capacity or a hire.

44:57And I would have like a little something in my, in the back of my head that wasn't a really strong, intense, uh, sort of intuition, but there was some intuition that I shouldn't, that there was some red flag. And, and over the last like two years, I've really tried to be intentional, intentional about listening to that. And I had to make the mistake of not listening to it four or five times. And so now when it happens, I'm very, I know what kind of comes after making that mistakes. I'm just like, yeah, I'm just not going to start. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost, it's almost hard to make the mistake once and fully learn the lesson.

45:31Yeah. You need multiple data points to prove, to prove out a real thesis there. Yeah. I remember a friend of mine in high school. I think we were in college and one of his younger brothers came out with everyone partying and his younger brother was like drinking, like trying to keep up with the college guys. And one of our friends, you know, the older brother is like, hey, take it easy. Like we are college guys. Like you're just not gonna be able to keep up with us. Our tolerance is like way higher. You got to go easy. And one of our other friends just like grabs his, the older brother's hand and says like look some lessons have to be learned the hard way yeah and to this day they refer to this as like des lessons because like that's the type of like lesson learn the hard way and alcohol alcohol is a very positive feedback loop it is a poison yes people consume it they feel good but then they feel really bad really bad it creates less desire to do it again even though you might feel good for a little bit yeah hopefully so yeah some things you gotta learn the hard way let's go to justin mayer's brother of the week this week he says the fda literally has a 10 second rule if a company fries something in oil for less than 10 seconds there's no requirement to add the oil to the ingredient label reform can't come soon enough fascinating yeah the fda has a bunch of these weird rules just like little archaic things that get you've dealt with this exploited yeah tons of weird stuff that just like this this this has to be on this can't be on i mean there's a ton of stuff in the tobacco industry where you like like because that's because the cigarette companies were making claims about like low tar now you can't even make a claim about any tobacco product including a tobacco free product that it's sugar free or it doesn't contain seed oils or it doesn't contain microplastics like you legally cannot make those claims even if it's true and it's just like super is that regulatory capture basically yeah for the cigarette companies yeah every every like you can't market against you can't market product benefits against us oh yeah i mean like the whole backlash against the tobacco companies was just like a master class in like jujitsu and getting getting a good outcome everything was like oh yeah you'll totally tie our hands on this and also create the strongest monopoly in american history oh yeah well yeah no one will be able to advertise who would that benefit the entrenched incumbents absolutely with crazy distribution yeah oh yeah like and yeah durable brand exactly exactly so every decision that they made was just like very long-term focused for the it was a long-term win for the tobacco companies and a short-term win for the you know the regulators regulators and so they got to say hey there's no more cigarette ads it's like okay well you know let's see how this plays out will people still be smoking in 40 years absolutely yeah my take with with uh with i i had no idea about this rule and it's crazy but i think you basically if you're not consuming foods that you watched being made or you just assembled the ingredients and made it yourself it is just default going to be less good for you than than that right like there's no amount of oh it's gluten-free or it's seed oil-free or it was made with beef tallow like all that stuff like sort of matters but then oh there was lead in the in the process and you know now now you know it has whatever so anyways if you're really optimizing for health it's got to be whole foods let's go to boring business uh he's quoting someone who says is there a job where they just pay you for being a chill guy with good intuition about stuff and boring business says venture capital great post i uh i had the post today about like everybody wants to be a vc why wouldn't you want to just be an lp yeah you know you just that that's also a chill job you get to meet vcs hang out yep ski resorts go cat skiing heli skiing you know deploy a little capital sit back watch it watch it work um but uh but yeah i do i do think if you're if it's funny ideas guys you know monetize well through uh through just building companies um but uh there's a lot of vcs that are ideas guys and they basically just sit on this buck you know this like basket of really good ideas for years and wait for the right entrepreneur to come to them and say, Hey, uh, I'm going to build this thing.

49:50And they're like, Oh, I've thought about this for a long time. This is great. Now I'll give you money to do it. And I get to watch my, uh, your vision kind of play out. Yeah.

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50:41and if you get invited to go cat skiing, heli skiing, or have a more humble, you know, if a VC says, hey, do you want to come up to Aspen and, you know, we'll ski at the resort. If you get more modest VC like that. Grit your teeth and do anyway. Any of those environments, Montclair would be a good fit. So thank you to Montclair. That's fantastic. Let's go to Vittorio. Let's stay on the topic of things with pockets. He says a lawyer in your pocket. There we go. He's showing that with Grok 3, court cases are being added to the training set, aiming to provide Grok with the ability to offer compelling legal verdicts.

51:19Pretty exciting. A lot of companies that stay away from this. Yeah, so this is going to be already when people talk about what's wrong with America. It's the lawfare that's just constantly being waged. It's good business for one reason why it's great to be a lawyer in this country for the most part. but it's going to be really insane when the sort of consumer AI products and do not pay was an early version of this, but it was less like, I'm going to sue somebody and more like we're giving you the tools to kind of fight back against different laws that maybe you don't, or like work with laws. And there's a world in the future where, where Grok can launch a lawsuit for you against one of your ops.

52:02And like, and it's just 10 times, like most of what stops people from launching lawsuits is the cost of the lawsuit. You know, if you have some type of dispute, let's say you're disputing over$10 ,000, it doesn't make sense to enter into a lawsuit because it's going to cost you$100 ,000 to even get to any type of conclusion or maybe more. So when that cost goes to zero, what happens? I do wonder where the Nash equilibrium will be for all this because yes, there's a world where it gets a lot easier to sue people, but then the AI should also be used to defend people. And so you'll have all of these lawsuits that are kind of being fought by AI and don't really bubble up.

52:42Well, this is a real thing. We should create a data center just for the bullshit lawsuits. Oh, it's going to be huge. And just put them out and like, you know. This has already been happening for years in legal billing. So there's software that companies use to read through bills from law firms to determine what was a billable hour and what wasn't so they can effectively redline the invoices when they come through and say, oh, this was just like an associate reading case law. That's their homework. That's not something that's billable. So we want to pay you 25 % less. And if you save 25 % on your bills with your massive law firm and your fortune 500, like that's a huge amount of money.

53:23But then the law firms got the software too. And then they, when they submit their bills, it goes through a review and says, okay, what's going to get thrown back at us? Let's not put that on the bill. And so it just became this like, you know, equilibrium fight of like the AIs essentially. And the result is that like, I think just as many hours get billed, but now there's a tax from the AI, from the tech companies on both sides. Love that. That'll probably continue. Anyway, let's go to Isaiah Taylor. He says, guys, I've had enough. I'm leaving X and heading to the other app. I'll still post occasionally and like an RT my friend's content to be supportive of them reply to a few comments a scroll here and there perhaps a rare dm but trust me my heart will be in the other app banger shots fired such a good such a good oh oh this is a cuban i was thinking about a coon but it just yeah i mean it's it's applicable to many many different types of people who are no the conversations still happen on x baby yeah it's greatest app of all time i i i tried to log into blue sky to see like okay has anyone actually moved over and it was pretty minimal over there pretty sparse but we'll see yeah it's it's funny that um if you're building any products that are that you want to get in front of the sort of tech uh audience tech elite whatever you want to call it uh you still got to be on x to about it.

54:47Yeah. Let's go to Zach Weinberg. He says, the trend that confuses me most as a tech angel investor is the juxtaposition of A, incredibly cool new AI driven seed stage ideas with B, early stage valuations that do not make economic sense given C, increasing competition from everywhere. Great time to be a customer though. And then he goes on to say, it's become so easy to be a seed stage software founder with all the incredible tools out there. Top of funnel ideas is huge. Prototypes are increasingly easy and cheap to build. Will be interesting to see how VC returns work in an environment like this.

55:22Yeah, this is the bull case for Y Combinator right now because they have a set structure to their investments and you can't negotiate it. And so they are able to buy into companies effectively artificially low because of their program and brand. And then everybody else has to pay a premium once they are a part of that program um so big big bull case for yc i did see recently i had a i i was pitched by a company that that was started by some guys that had started a big uh consumer tech company in the like sort of like early like facebook era they were coming back for a new ai infrastructure product they told me like oh we're you know it's going to be done at like 60 post like we're just waiting on terms and then i just heard yesterday it got done at 12 post so there is there is some okay there is some um pushback on that there's some pushback but still like the super crack teams are still getting these egregious valuations out the gates yeah i mean 60 posts that's like gonna be a 10 million dollar round that's like yeah you're just a 50 person company on day one like it's almost like working against you because there's just burning a hole in your pocket and you're going to have an overly large team for hunting for that product market fit.

56:43But those rounds, I mean, they're happening. Yeah, unless you really have capex that you need, whether it's R &D or some sort of data center build out, you really got to think through that. Does your business need that much to get from zero to one? It's a big question. No, but I think it's some weird thing. It's even like second-time founders are drawn more because they're used to measuring themselves by numbers. Like if you, if you start a company and you get to$50 million run rate and sell it, then when you go back to square one, you're like, Oh yeah, it'd be pretty nice to have 10 million in the bank.

57:16Cause like I've, I've spent this much money before effectively, but it's much different to go and spend it from zero to one to do that versus spending your series A and your last company. it's also just extremely jolting to go from a company that you're building where you have teams for everything and then you go into you know seed stage and you're like wait i have to do this stuff myself or i have to i only have a person instead of a team everything's like it feels like it's maybe kind of moving slower yeah uh well i had i had one i mean part of what happens is i just think this is like pretty relevant part of what happens is you get a really smart team that goes out and they have a good idea, good team.

57:56And they go, yeah, we're going to raise$4 million. And then one of these bigger multi-stage funds just goes, well, okay, well, like we really want to lead you around. We love what you're doing. We want, we want to own at least 12 % or whatever, 14, 15%. And then they're like, we'll give you eight on 40. And then And the founder's like, it's objectively wrong for me to turn this money down in many ways if I can get way more resources for the same level of dilution. And then all the smaller investors and the angels, like I've invested in multiple rounds over the last 12 months where I'm like, this price doesn't make any sense, but I want to be in the company because it's my friend.

58:35And it can be so hard because it's like, okay, so then you could push down the amount of dilution, but then your valuation is still high and you have to clear that hurdle for the next round. Yeah. Or you push down the valuation and then you get diluted more. and it's just like all tension everywhere. It can be very, very, very fraught. But just got to go get the engine humming on the building and build something. So let's go to Molly O'Shea. She's been on the show before. She says, coming off a week of holiday events and I couldn't feel more optimistic and grateful for LA's unique tech community.

59:06Everyone is crushing it. 2025 is going to be incredible. I love it. Just an optimistic post to end on. Maybe we should do one more, but uh we should do one more let's no i do love the optimism la's tech ecosystem gets so much hate but it's great but one of the reasons one of the reasons i'm grateful for it is we were connected because somebody was like you're the two people in la's tech world that i actually like really like and like you guys should meet each other and that was like basically the whole yeah yeah reason we got connected yeah um yeah it's a small world out here and i don't know there's some benefits like there's there's plenty of events we saw a ton of people people fly in it's close to san francisco people are happy to travel to la yeah exactly because it's fun weather's good um but it's not so great holiday parties and it is spread out enough that you're not getting like it's not the oh come to this partiful every single day and like the fomo is not nearly as bad here i get partifels every week that i'm just like i'm not going to drive an hour yeah exactly exactly yeah yeah uh just no way no one in la has really understood that it's like europe yeah it's like no la is the most europe of los angeles aka santa monica you want to go to france tomorrow it's malibu something like that yeah uh yeah i mean it's it's significant to get around here um well let's go to some boom news blake scholl has announced a new fundraising round as xb1 approaches mach 1 i'm happy to share that boom arrow has raised 100 million dollars in new financing fully funding the first symphony engine prototype and paul graham says i invested more in boom than i've ever invested in a startup before but this company is important for america they'll also make a huge amount of money if they succeed no one else is anywhere near having a supersonic airliner so i think we got to raise uh hit the size gong a light size gong for the 100 million round.

1:01:02But this was very rough. This was a down round. This was a recap. I believe it was 100 million on 100 million pre. So the new investors took about 50 % of the company. But it's sad for all the early investors and probably some of the employees that got diluted. But it's great that Silicon Valley has kind of rallied the troops and said, circle the wagons. We want this to be a thing and we're keeping it in business and we're keeping the story going. It's better than just washing our hands of this. It would be absolutely tragic. Like, for example, if China had a company like this, they just wouldn't let it fail.

1:01:35Like, there'd be like a government intervention to say this technology is critical enough that we're going to just make it work at whatever the cost. That's literally the story of TSMC. Yeah. It's literally the story of TSMC. Could not fail because they had the backing of the Taiwan government. They were like, this is critical. Yeah. And so I'm really glad to see it. And that's like a beautiful, it's created a beautiful moment out of an otherwise sort of unfortunate set of circumstances. to see a bunch of the most successful, influential people in the Valley say, this company is too important to fail.

1:02:05Let's make it happen. Should we take a moment of silence for the early investors who got wiped out and crammed down? Yeah. This moment of silence is brought to you by Bose QuietComfort Headphones. Find your moment of silence at Bose.com. Okay. All right. I'm back to the show. Back to the show. Should we close with Databricks? This is a real-size gong moment. Real size gong. Databricks is on track to raise a$9.5 billion round at a$60 billion valuation. Easter famine, baby. This is amazing. Let's go. We should do one gong for every billion that you raise. Yeah, we need nine. We need nine gongs for this.

1:02:44This is fantastic. I don't know enough about Databricks. We should do a deep dive on the company, break it all down. I know that they're doing very well. Everyone's excited. And it's very, very cool. And the founder is available and does podcasts. And I've seen him at conferences and stuff. And he's probably under-discussed because it's one of these B2B database companies that's a little bit not sexy or consumer-y. But I love that he's out there talking. And they have some really cool investors. And I'm really excited to see where this goes. So should we close with one more promoted post? I love ending on an ad.

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