00:40:12 · Molly O'Shea, Brian Singerman
[00:40:12] S1: A 100%. It's like, also, you could throw anything at him. He has a reference for it. [00:40:18] S0: Sure. [00:40:18] S1: I was like, Oh, this will be a funny question. What would War on the Moon look like? [00:40:22] S0: He will have studied that. [00:40:23] S1: He was like, Well, I read that in a book. It's called blah blah blah blah. [00:40:26] S0: That's an easy one for him, because he definitely would have studied that one. Yes. [00:40:31] S1: That's an easy one. But he's truly authentic and very cool. Alex Karp is definitely an [00:40:37] S0: author There's of lot of actual authentic people in this business. As we were talking about off camera, there's a lot that are not, But there really are, you never be able to tell from how tech media or mainstream media characterize people who genuinely is you'd think, Oh, that's a villain or whatever, like just by reading this, you know, this kind of nonsense, but they're genuinely are amazing. Awesome, talented, really true to themselves, like genuine real people. Like, you use the term down to earth, I don't know about if I'd use that same term, but I like to use the term genuine. Genuinely them. They're not trying to be somebody else. They're not trying to fit apart. They're just being them. And I love that. I'm attracted to when I meet that in a new GP, I'm attracted to that. Somebody who is just being them, not trying to play the game. [00:41:38] S1: As a master of games or a lover of games, why do people play the posturing game when it's so obvious to everybody who's on the inside?
00:41:38 · Molly O'Shea, Brian Singerman
[00:41:38] S1: As a master of games or a lover of games, why do people play the posturing game when it's so obvious to everybody who's on the inside? [00:41:48] S0: I don't think it's all because who cares about the people on the inside? That's not who you're trying to, like, sometimes you're trying to win over LPs. Maybe you need to do the posturing for LPs. I, you know, I don't, but, like, that could be one reason to do it. One reason is, like, you're building your career. I don't know. It's not the game that I would have played, but I don't say, like, there's no reason to do it. And also because your audience or your customers, not other VCs, so really who cares what other VCs think of you.
00:42:20 · Molly O'Shea
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00:44:07 · Brian Singerman, Molly O'Shea
[00:44:07] S0: Yep. [00:44:07] S1: We had some really fun conversations before we started because we're in this, like, I mean, you have some beautiful guitars back there. [00:44:14] S0: Oh, those are prized possessions. My wife's karaoke guitars. [00:44:18] S1: Really? [00:44:19] S0: When my wife and kids like to we do karaoke in this room all the time. We love karaoke as a family, and those are karaoke guitars. [00:44:26] S1: They look like they've seen some [00:44:28] S0: See some better days? [00:44:29] S1: No, I think they've seen some great days. [00:44:32] S0: Those guitars could talk. [00:44:35] S1: You do have some empty cases, and we were talking about why you're so interested in collecting physical things, like human relics. [00:44:42] S0: I am. [00:44:42] S1: So, [00:44:43] S0: what I'm is the very bullish on N of one human cultural iconic artifacts. Like, as a class, I've never been a big art person, like Trey is a big art person, like just paintings and all that kind of stuff. I've never been really into that, but what I am into is functional art and art in the [00:45:03] S1: form
00:45:03 · Molly O'Shea, Brian Singerman
[00:45:03] S1: form [00:45:03] S0: of artifacts. I love that stuff. And so, memorabilia is a category that I'm extremely interested in as long as these are truly N of one human cultural iconic artifacts. I think that that's really growingly important in a world that's dominated by machines in so many ways. I think the true human iconic things are just going to be more and more valuable not just from a monetary perspective, but from a mindshare perspective, from an emotional perspective. I don't really care if the algorithm of some NFT made this one thing algorithmically rare. Like, I don't care about that. But do I love a Jerry Garcia guitar that he played for like ten years? Hell yeah. Right? Like, do I love things that people could recognize from minute one of seeing them that are true N of-one artifacts? Yeah, I love that kind of stuff. I do have some pieces that will be going in here. [00:46:11] S1: How did this collection start? Was there one particular piece that you saw? [00:46:16] S0: Yeah, we started with we do have some movie memorabilia, which I'm very bullish on also because it's still iconic human stuff. [00:46:25] S1: And you don't want to start a band?
00:46:25 · Molly O'Shea, Brian Singerman
[00:46:25] S1: And you don't want to start a band? [00:46:27] S0: I do not want to start a band, but I hope my kids are in one if they want to. Really like this whole going to a world where business is kind of AI dominated. The reason I built this music studio was I don't care if a machine can make music better than me, who cares? I love doing it. And so, I like humans figuring out and using this next gen, you know, using whatever comes next as a way to figure out like, well, how can we be truly happy and how do we focus on the things that make us truly happy and truly who we are? And so, for instance, if my kids are super into music, which they might be, and they want to start a band, hell yeah. I'm as bullish on them being involved in anything creative arts as I am academics. I would almost say that having an awesome music department or an awesome art department is even more important than having an awesome math program right now.