David Weisburd

I'm investing in both of those.

But hopefully they'll both be over a trillion dollars.

What's compounded the most over these 25 years?

Across the business?

across your career, across your funds, across your investing?

Dan Horowitz publicly shared that he went on one call, him and Marc Andreessen went on one call to raise the last $15 billion fund.

Obviously, you have to go upstream of that.

Why did that happen?

It's not because that one call was so exceptional.

It's because of that reputation they've built over similarly two, three decades.

The co-founder of this podcast now runs this media empire, Eric Tornberg.

So it all goes full circle.

Maybe an obvious question, but how have you been able to compound your reputation?

What does that look like on a day-to-day basis?

First time I heard your name was when you wrote this article in January 2012 called Nice Guys Finish First... Eventually.

Do you still believe that today in 2026?

100%.

And why is it... Eventually?

The next Google comes out, and let's say it's OpenAI and Anthropic, there is a competition just to get in the round.

And there's, it seems at least in the short term, an incentive to do or say anything to get in that round.