Shervin Pishevar
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Right. But, you know, the scale of what's happening, everything has gotten bigger and more consequential. I think the next 25 years is going to eclipse everything we've seen in our lifetime. and we're about to go through civilizational change in the next 20 years. So a fund like yours and a fund like mine has a really lucky timing.
People like you, Harry, and others who have great instincts about people and about companies and trends are always going to succeed. They're going to get in that deal, even if they lose it to a bigger VC like I did in the Uber case. Your resilience and your grit matters.
So if you can build authentic relationships with the great founders of the next 20 years, you'll be their partners in building these amazing trillion dollar companies. I think we're lucky. I think we went through a drunken period because the business models weren't actually correct.
But now you're dealing with AI quantum computing, you're going to have basically the power, the mind of God in terms of computing power, as you saw with Willow. You know, I've said for a long time, the reason I'm doing quantum computing is with quantum computing, what I see coming down the pike, we'll be able to solve problems that would take billions of years to solve.
We'll be able to solve them in hours and days.
Is that like solving climate change? Yes. So where I think things are going to go is that quantum and AI, even at the chipset level, are going to merge. And then that's going to revolutionize all aspects of our lives. We'll find cures to every known disease known to mankind within, I would say, the next 10 years.
So one of the things I started saying before Brian Johnson is a dear friend to my I said to my friends is like, don't die, like, don't jump out of planes, don't ski, don't die in the next 20 years, because we're going to reach a point of longevity where you'll be able to health live a healthy life for 150 plus years.
Yeah, absolutely. The level of advancement that we're about to experience is like a Cambrian explosion of super intelligence.
I know too much. I've seen some of these technologies that other people haven't seen that are coming down the pike. I've seen technologies that are going to get us to a million qubits. Google's at like 100 qubits. even with willow. You're talking about a million cubits? That's the mind of God. And so you'll be able to solve problems that would take billions of years to solve in hours and days.
And so being able to say, hey, we can basically find a cure for all diseases known to mankind and people are just going to die from accidents and not disease. I didn't have to lose my mother. So many of our loved ones that we lose to old age, like they can live healthier, longer lives and stay with us. Fucking love Brian.
You know, the decade that he was CEO of Microsoft, Microsoft was completely just flat and he's now richer than Bill Gates. Right. So he ultimately won. You know, they did a great job in hiring Satya because Satya has been, I think, the greatest, greatest CEO, one of the greatest CEOs of our lifetimes.
It's a great question. Before my granddaughter was born, Aurora, I didn't fully understand what being a grandparent was. I have to tell you, it's like 10 times more powerful than having a kid. changed my mind now in this sense that I actually think the whole point of life is to become a grandparent. It unlocks a level of love that you've never experienced in your life.
Like I'm totally obsessed with my granddaughter. I see her every day. I moved across the street from her. She's the light of my life and I live for her. She's given me a massive boost in energy and drive to make the world a better place for her and her generation. And so I just didn't realize what being a grandparent was until I became one. And, you know, I became one at 48.
So I was a young grandpa, a YG. And it's the most important thing that's ever happened to me.
I would say it would be lowercase. Chris Saka's fund. I put a little check in there and got 4 million out, like 25,000 turned into 4 million. So it was a legendary fund. I think it was like 10 million in return, like one point. $5 billion or something. That goes in the record books.
So a couple ways. One, Elon and I were friends. And then another friend of mine, Justin Fischer-Wolfson, who was on the board of SGN. Sean Parker was the Founders Fund representative who led the deal. But Justin was the one that would come to the board meetings, and we became really close friends. And when Yuri did that deal, I went to Justin's house. I actually named 137 that night.
I looked over as we were talking about him starting a fund. And I was like, what is that number block on your table? And it said 137. And he was like, oh, that's my grandfather's number seat on the Wall Street on the exchange. And he bought it after coming to America from Russia. He was a Russian Jew who came with nothing. created success. And I was like, well, that's the name of your fund, 137.
And he was like, you're right. So anyways, he helped bring SpaceX to Founders Fund. He was like a junior partner or associate along with Alex Jacobson, who was this co-founder of 137. And so they advocated for the SpaceX investment. And then they did a bunch of secondary when they started 137. So they've done really well And so he had some available back in 2014 at like a $6 billion valuation.
We put some money in at that valuation. So I think SpaceX will be a $10 trillion company. It's just getting started.
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