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Clear all filtersBrian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist"
Brian Singerman, Molly O'Shea, Elon, Peter Thiel, Cyan Banister, Palmer Luckey, Alex Karp, Max Levchin, Trae Stephens, Scott Nolan
Brian Zingerman outlines a venture capital philosophy that prioritizes founder strength over financial metrics, citing concentrated bets on entities like SpaceX and Palantir as essential for generating outsized returns. Currently pivoting to invest exclusively in authentic general partners, he leverages his background as a competitive strategy gamer to identify leaders capable of outmaneuvering established norms. Looking forward, Zingerman plans to apply this same discernment to launching a non-traditional music label while navigating geopolitical shifts by relocating his focus to Hawaii.
Nominal Hits $1B as Founders Fund Leads $80M B-2 Acceleration Round
Cameron McCord, Trae Stephens, Molly O'Shea
Following a breakout year, Nominal has secured an $80 million Series C led by Founders Fund to scale its workforce from 125 to over 220 employees and accelerate product development in the software-defined hardware sector. The company leverages this capital to pursue strategic acquisitions and expand partnerships with four of the five largest defense prime contractors, aiming to replace legacy manual workflows with agentic AI that reduces testing costs by up to 60%. Positioned by investors as essential infrastructure comparable to GitHub's impact on software, Nominal seeks to disrupt entrenched industrial vendors by modernizing government procurement cycles and transitioning toward a 1-to-1 human-to-hardware operational ratio.
SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets
Molly O'Shea, Christian Garrett, Trae Stephens
137 Ventures partners, including Christian Garrett, analyze the structural shift where companies like SpaceX remain private longer to compound value and avoid public market scrutiny. The firm leverages secondary markets and tender offers to manage employee liquidity while advocating for concentrated investment in generational defense and aerospace firms. Furthermore, the discussion highlights how accelerating government-tech collaboration and specific policy changes are reshaping capital allocation strategies in the modern tech ecosystem.