Joshua Browder
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601 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Jan
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And I still run it every day.
And I also do a lot of exciting investing, which I'm excited to discuss with you.
I arrived in the US and Stanford in 2015.
And at that time, Snapchat was the big winner and the big inspiration for everyone.
And of course, we all watch the social network.
And so all of these social media companies kind of perpetuated this myth that it's okay for companies to continually lose money for a long period of time.
And then you saw Uber and other companies like that do the same.
And...
I think really it is a myth because Facebook at the Series A was profitable.
And a lot of the best businesses actually do.
And I'm seeing this now with companies that I was the kind of first believer in now doing quite well.
They're actually great businesses.
And so I think it's more of a myth than people realize about whether you should be losing too much money.
And it's best to have a good business.
I think that for network effects, particularly with social networks and marketplaces, it makes sense to go a little longer with scaling.
For enterprise software businesses, at least on a gross profit basis, they should be profitable.
So I started my business by accident because I got a lot of parking tickets and I similarly became an investor by accident.
So three and a half years into Stanford, I took a program called the Thiel Fellowship.
where they, I'm sure many of your listeners are familiar with the Teal Fellowship, but the summary is that they pay top 1% young entrepreneurs between the ages of, say, 16 and 22.
It used to be $100,000.
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