Victor Riparbelli
speaker
720 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Victor Riparbelli’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sony got hacked a few years prior and there was a lot of emails in that hack.
We found his email, we sent him a cold email and he responded back within four minutes saying, I think this is really interesting.
Came back with some more questions.
And then we had a 14 hour email conversation with him.
Mark doesn't do any video calls or normal calls.
He only does email.
And so 14 hours later, he'd asked a lot of great questions and he said, I'll do a million dollars if the diligence checks out.
And I think one thing that was very interesting about this process was Mark was aware of the research paper.
He had implemented it himself at home and he 100% believed in the vision around, you're gonna be able to make a Hollywood film from your laptop antenna.
We didn't have to discuss that.
He was just interested in how are you going to build a company around it?
And what are you going to do until the technology actually works?
Which is a very different conversation than every other investor we spoke to where we had to start at like, hey, this thing's going to be possible in 10 years.
And they just, if they didn't,
You know, Mark shared the same belief around us.
So he was evaluating us as a team, whereas everyone else, we had to try and convince them about this, like, worldview.
And that's very hard.
So we got turned down by, I think, almost 100 investors before Mark actually invested.
And that became the, yeah, the premise of the company.
Yeah, that's right.
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