Tomorrow Talk Sabrina Halper of HOF Capital

Delian Asparouhov is the co-founder of Varda Space, the startup that is manufacturing products in space to benefit life on Earth. He is also a partner at Founders Fund.

The first 30 minutes of this episode cover all things space: Varda, investing and building in Space, Elon's role in pushing the industry forward, working in highly-regulated industries, inception of ideas.

The second 30 minutes go deep into Delian's personal path into venture, lessons from his first company, what personal characteristics define the best founders, lessons he learned from his mentors, which investment sectors he sees as being the next wave, and some fun fast facts.

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Maddie Hall is the co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon, a plant bio-tech company growing genetically modified poplars and pines capable of absorbing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than regular trees. Previously, she worked on special projects at Y Combinator and OpenAI.



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Tye Sheridan, the lead actor in films such as Ready Player One, X-Men, and Mud, and Nikola Todorovic, award-winning filmmaker and visual effects supervisor, met on a set in 2016. They quickly became best friends, and eventually cofounders of Wonder Dynamics, a company building AI software that makes VFX special effects affordable and accessible on a browser, ultimately empowering a whole new generation of people to create new types of content that were previously reserved for big-budget studios. Today, they are about to launch to the public after compiling hundreds of thousands of users on their waitlist, and an advisory board that includes the likes of Steven Spielberg.

We discuss how AI will empower filmmakers, Hollywood’s history with innovation, how content will change, their personal journey's, and much more.

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HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.

Bryan Johnson sits down with HOF investor Sabrina Halper for an in-depth conversation that spans philosophy, biology, and technology. Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. He is investing millions to slow and reverse his aging. In 2021, he set a world record by reducing his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months. In this conversation, Bryan confronts many of the criticisms around his pursuit and presents his vision for the future of humanity.

Previously, Johnson sold his company Braintree Venmo to PayPal for $800M in 2013. Johnson is also the founder of Kernel, creator of the world's first non-invasive neuroimaging system, and OS fund, where he invested $100M in the predictable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms into companies now collectively valued over $6B.

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In this episode, Elad sits down with Sabrina Halper for a candid conversation about all things technology. You'll hear his thoughts on:

1.How to develop a long-term career in technology:
-The power of peer groups and cohorts
-Which jobs to pursue
-Re-inventing yourself
-Living in the physical hubs

2.Advice for founders of startups and growth-stage companies:
-Why large companies stagnate and how to avoid it as you scale
-How to think about startup moats and defensibility
-The power of picking the right market
-What led to Twitter's lack of iteration pre-Elon

3.Artificial Intelligence:
-How to pick the winners
-How things might shake up between OpenAI, Google, and Meta/ opensource
-Amazon's play
-Incentives around regulation
-The need for thoughtful cost-benefit analysis
-The best and worst case scenarios of AGI

4.Personal advice on:
-Being a dynamic individual
-Resilience
-Time management


Who is Elad Gil?
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Brex, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Pinterest, Rippling, Square, Stripe and others. Elad has invested in 40+ companies worth $1B or more, 30+ of them at the seed or series A. Elad was early to the AI space, running AI-centric products at Twitter (search), Google (ads targeting) and has invested in generative AI companies like Perplexity, Harvey.AI, Character. Elad is a Co-Founder of Color Health, a digital population healthcare delivery company. Elad also founded Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter, and was VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Elad received a Ph.D. from MIT and BS and BA in Math from UCSD. He is the author of the bestselling book High Growth Handbook.


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In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with Sahil Lavingia for an in-depth conversation that goes far and wide.

They discuss:

-his journey dropping out of USC to join Pinterest as the 2nd employee

-founding and scaling Gumroad to $100M

-his advice for others looking to build profitable products and companies

-the current AI wave: which companies excite him, what he's been building, how the competitive ecosystem might play out

-AGI and what our future society may look like

-Balaji's Bitcoin bet

-whether TikTok should be banned
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