When investing, there are two types of investments: No Brainers, and Big Thinkers:

adamdraper.vc/p/no-brainers-…

Its starting to feel like 2010/2011 investing times.

Boost VC glad we get to be deploying capital into these years.

2024/25 will be epic vintage VC funds.

Katie took a chance on us when we were a little known crypto exchange, back when very few people believed in the technology, and I'll always be grateful for that. She’s been our longest serving independent director - was our first audit/risk chair, was on our comp committee, and

Today was a great Friday:

- Closed follow on check into Series C I backed 7.5 years ago as first check 🎮
- Committed to new Pre-Seed co as first check 🤖
- LP 💰
- Bitcoin halvening 🪙

Still some hours left. Let's see what we can do 🚀

Breakfast with Pops:

Service is so good at Buck's they test the water for you.

What feedback do you have for Derby on Meta Quest App Lab?

'Hey Dad, take it easy on the US dollar today it's been a tough year.'

My Dad Tim Draper :
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This was a fun interview. Reminds me that I want to get back to podcasting.

Week 3/4

During week 3, I stayed updated on my exercise and mobility, but my arm started to hurt, so I stopped throwing. Just started throwing again yesterday and hit a personal best:

73 mph.

Now... the problem is in the next 2 pitches I broke the radar gun by hitting it with

So excited to see whats about to happen. ROBOTS!!!!

Boost VC and Spacecadet 👽 hosting a Robotics pitch day. LFG!!!!

We found a mission that truly feeds our souls.

Onthis empowers onchain users to become builders.

We are seeing firsthand how proud our users are of deploying useful contracts using our no-code tools.

That's a hill worth dying on.

Sometimes the best investments are the most obvious:

We bought some Crypto Punks.

m.mirror.xyz/cmMDjUUaCoTU8q…

Got a super special tour of Giga Texas- thanks to the Tesla execs for meeting the Navier team! Hands down the most mind blowing factory tour ever- hundreds of robots in action!
🚀🛻⚡️ #austin

I started 20VC 10 years ago.

I have done 2,439 interviews.

Todays episode with Sam Altman Brad Lightcap was the highlight of a 10 year journey.

The impact of OpenAI on the world is unparalleled.

This was truly special. 👇

Our eclipse party with the Ensemble VC team and LPs! Thank you Tim Draper Billy Draper and Adam Draper for a super fun panel with the first family of VC. So apparently total solar eclipses are incredible!

Great event Collin West Conrad Shang!

What is the best Deep Tech PR firm?

Me: 'What big concepts have you been thinking about?'

Pops: 'Just today, I was thinking about how the world is so small in the universe, but how many amazing things have been created by humans; products, companies. Largely in the United States, because of our freedom.'

Handing out $100k to fans today.

Investors: If you didn't get enough Deep Tech at Y Combinator demo day 👇

We got you 👉 60+ Deep Tech co pitches and decks at demoday.boost.vc

Snapshot:
- Lunar water
- Nuclear medicine
- Virtual worlds
- Stem cell milk
- Solar geoengineering
- Robots for cows