Positive users praise Cyan Banister as the GOAT and a legend for her early SpaceX and Uber angel bets while loving the interviews about her record.
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@MollySOShea @cyantist SpaceX. Anduril. Uber. PayPal. Affirm. Flexport. Postmates. Niantic. Opendoor. Carta. Together AI. Diamond Foundry. Crusoe. Flock Safety. Substrate. Brave. Depop. Calm. TrueMed. Turing. Crusoe. MINDBLOOM. Cyan's the GOAT, and her story and heart are prolific.
@MollySOShea @DanielleFong @cyantist @cyantist is the very best investor. Glad to be in her @LongJourneyVC fund. @MollySOShea is the very best host. Glad to be on her list. The very bestest discussion everrrr!!!
@MollySOShea @cyantist She’s so good at what she does, and yet the industry is desperately trying to ignore any lessons in that success. Wild. Amazing interview, thank you @MollySOShea. 🫡
@cyantist You are the best Cyan! Could talk to you for hours Now let’s get you on @tetranow w Rick Rubin!!
Banister now co-leads Long Journey VC after leaving Founders Fund.
NEW: Cyan Banister's Legendary Track Record Her first investment ever? SpaceX. In 2007, she invested every dollar she had into SpaceX & never sold. Combined, @cyantist & Scott Banister are easily the #1 angel investors in the world. SpaceX. Anduril. Uber. PayPal. Affirm. Flexport. Postmates. Niantic. Opendoor. Carta. Together AI. Diamond Foundry. Crusoe. Flock Safety. Substrate. Brave. Depop. Calm. TrueMed. Turing. Crusoe Cyan spent 4 years at Founders Fund, now Co-Founder & General Partner, @LongJourneyVC Plus Founders Fund's Mafia, beating Phil Hellmuth in poker live, & free speech as her number one cause. We cover › The space between your values & your actions › Human beings as why machines › Why Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection › Peter Thiel University › Nanotech & biotech 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Cyan Banister, Long Journey Ventures (01:13) Inside Long Journey HQ (02:17) The wild story behind the office mural (05:32) What Cyan's actual house looks like (07:18) The candle ritual (08:08) What the Long Journey logo actually means (10:41) Mafia's breakout stars (14:45) Cyan's strategy (16:30) What really happens off-camera at Mafia (18:58) The blooper reel nobody's seen yet (23:54) Brian Singerman x $40 /mo board game club (29:10) Confessions of an accidental poker legend (33:37) What relentless optimism reveals about people (35:42) Why so many people are scared to be weird (37:32) The daily ritual she prescribes to everyone (43:56) The "why" behind her biggest investments (50:49) Why sci-fi movies keep predicting the future (53:37) Should you even go to college right now? (59:58) Unconventional investing philosophy (1:01:57) Full list of Cyan's investments (1:04:28) All-in on SpaceX (1:08:57) Why she never sold a single SpaceX share (1:12:53) Top Bets: Becoming Bio + Substrate (1:15:52) America's reindustrialization moment is now (1:19:16) Cyan's mentors (1:22:54) Manifesting Rick Rubin (1:24:00) Real take on the Peter Thiel events
Cyan Banister (@cyantist) on what being an early investor in SpaceX taught her about risk: "After SpaceX, I started taking more risks. I became a little bit addicted." "I had a lifetime of conditioning of people saying, 'You need to get a job with a retirement plan, a 401K or pension, and if you ever have any savings, you should be putting it into the S&P 500 or buy land." "My peers and friends were telling me, 'No, you need to put it into high-risk startups because the alpha is there.'" "It was not an overnight success story. I wrote a lot of checks that failed, and had to calibrate my pattern matching over time." "In order to become good at early stage investing, you have to lose a few times." "It definitely made me very risk-tolerant." @elonmusk
Molly is an absolutely amazing interviewer. If you get a chance to be on her show - go! She dives deep, and has great energy. Thank you for having me on. It was a huge honor. https://twitter.com/mollysoshea/status/2075581306159694250
love to see a @cyantist getting her Legend banistered https://twitter.com/mollysoshea/status/2075581306159694250
Positive users praise Cyan Banister as the GOAT and a legend for her early SpaceX and Uber angel bets while loving the interviews about her record.
Based on 19 visible X reactions from 28 accounts; directional sample.
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