Tristan Thompson makes early investment in Anthropic
Tristan Thompson made an early investment in Anthropic after attending NBA-linked dinners with Silicon Valley participants focused on AI developments. He later expanded the stake using SPVs to include other investors. The details surfaced in a video interview clip shared on X by accounts including Market Bubble and Trung Phan, who compared the move to prior athlete investments in technology companies.
#1676Trung Phan@TRUNGTPHANTristan Thompson investing early in Anthropic after having dinner with some employees is the AI age version Shaq getting into the Google Series A round in 1999 — 5 years before IPO — after overhearing two Google employees chatting at the Beverly Hills Hotel lobby.
Market Bubble@MarketBubbleTristan Thompson explains how he invested in Anthropic “It was a buddy of mine in Silicon Valley… just going to a couple of these dinners they were doing with the NBA, sitting there talking to these guys and really picking their brains” “They were telling me about the future of AI and technology… I was like hey man, I like what you’re talking about” “It was a bunch of SF guys and everyone kept telling me, so I was like alright man, here’s a check. I wanna get in the game” “From there they just opened up so much for me. I was able to get in early through SPVs and bring in my other buddies to make a bigger check”
Bezos put in $250k into Google first round and that wss worth $300m at IPO.
He did that check around same time that him and Steve Jobs took a pitch for the Segway.
Incredible story I wrote on here (Jobs wmt full Jobs and shat all over the product): https://www.readtrung.com/p/steve-jobs-and-jeff-bezos-enter-a
Trung Phan@TrungTPhanTristan Thompson investing early in Anthropic after having dinner with some employees is the AI age version Shaq getting into the Google Series A round in 1999 — 5 years before IPO — after overhearing two Google employees chatting at the Beverly Hills Hotel lobby.