Keith Rabois
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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The company's great, you know, very happy.
And everybody here is very happy.
But it was it's rare when you can take the very specific lesson and apply it and not make the same mistake.
yeah.
Like so for example, um, there's one that we should have done here.
It's a very
well-regarded private company called three to five billion on paper, um, where we had a relationship with the founder from his prior life.
And we collectively decided not to, not to invest.
And then we recently, it's about five years ago, I was here at the time, and we were recently talking about how do we miss this?
Because they came in to present it and for whatever set of reasons, we didn't we didn't invest.
So we actually pulled up our partner meeting note.
from like 2000 uh probably eighteen and read them to see like what did we do wrong?
Like why did we miss this?
Um and you know, so we we try to learn from poor decisions if we can.
I think it's a fascinating question?
90% of the best stuff I've ever invested in as an angel or as a VC, I was dead sure of.
So I think the implication to that is if the fund were small.
If you had if your job had less money or if you ran a $100 million seed fund, which I would probably only go for the I'm pretty damn sure.
So, like for example, when um I think Lonsdale has told this story publicly that when they started Palantir, I was the only person who thought it was a good idea.
video literally other than the four co founders.
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