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Joshua Browder

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
230 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

I have a friend, he says either you want to invest in the high school and college dropouts or you want to invest in Elon Musk.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

Everyone in between, it's kind of shady.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

Yeah.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

Out of those 43 investments, any of them really standing out at the moment?

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

I'm lucky I've invested in several unicorns.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

I was a first investor in a company called Owner.com, which is now a multi-billion dollar company.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

First investor in a company called Micro One, which closed at half a billion last week.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And I'm now on the board of that company.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And I wasn't the first investor, but I was an early investor in Figma.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And so that was done.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

Wow.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

That's impressive, man.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

So did you make your capital from Do Not Pay?

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

So Do Not Pay is profitable and pays dividends.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And my very first investment, I was actually interviewing him for the Teal Fellowship because once you're a fellow, they help select the future class sales car.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And I met this guy, Adam Gilt, and he struck me as one of the top 0.1% of people I've ever met.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And the reason was that he was trying to save his mom's dog business during COVID, actually using AI by trying to beat Google search so that it ranked at the top.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

Wow.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And so I interviewed him, had lunch with him, and I thought, if now's the opportunity to invest, this is the time because this guy is truly something special.

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Joshua Browder: Why AGI Is Further Away Than Silicon Valley Claims | DSH #1688

And I didn't have any money, to your point.