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Founders Fund

San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel, known for backing SpaceX, Palantir, and other deep technology companies

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Interviews (30)

Founders Fund's Delian Asparouhov: Varda lands first publicly traded pharma client, Jared Isaacman unveils sweeping NASA space policies
24 Mar 2026
Hill & Valley Forum preview: biotech, national security, and international expansion coming March 24
29 Jan 2026
Delian Asparouhov on Ramp vs. Brex culture: focus beats diversification when building a monopoly
22 Jan 2026
Delian Asparouhov on holiday term sheets, defense manufacturing unicorns, and the K-shaped LP market
14 Jan 2026
Delian Asparouhov on venture's K-shaped funding curve, SPVs replacing traditional VC, and the upcoming IPO wave
8 Jan 2026
Delian Asparouhov: Jared Isaacman is the best possible NASA pick, and the moon is the right pit stop on the way to Mars
8 Dec 2025
Keith Rabois: AI app-layer companies must have positive gross margins, and the 'deal guy era' echoes the dot-com bubble
5 Dec 2025
Founders Fund alumni clash live: high-margin software vs. capital-intensive hard tech
15 Aug 2025
Delian Asparouhov on AI gross margins, private credit replacing IPOs, and the White House space EO
14 Aug 2025
Keith Rabois: OpenAI is winning the AI battle, Opendoor needs a new CEO and AI-native transformation
13 Aug 2025
Delian Asparouhov: Eastern Europe is the new tech frontier, zombie acquisitions are a temporary aberration, and Trump's AI executive orders are coming
16 Jul 2025
Founders Fund investor on stablecoins: one-to-one backed deposits threaten fractional reserve banking but could be the future
3 Jul 2025
Delian Asparouhov: cockpit miscommunication is the hidden cause behind aviation's crash wave
12 Jun 2025
Delian Asparouhov on the YC Demo Day evolution: from 600K seed rounds in 2014 to today's capital-rich environment
11 Jun 2025
Sean Liu of Founders Fund on evaluating technical risk in hard tech — and why most VC frameworks don't apply
9 Jun 2025
Founders Fund leads $49M Series B in EnduroSat, the 'Dell for satellites' built in Bulgaria
27 May 2025
Keith Rabois on founder mode, Airbnb's pivot, AI consolidation, and why micropayments will never work
22 May 2025
Varda's third capsule returns safely — Delian Asparouhov on Golden Dome, Venus Aerospace, and the space economy
15 May 2025
Keith Rabois on why most defense startups will fail, Ramp's pitch to Congress, and OpenAI saving San Francisco
1 May 2025
Delian Asparouhov on Hill & Valley Forum: tech-DC collaboration, defense budget, and Ramp for government
24 Apr 2025
Delian Asparouhov on China's lithography bet, lunar strategy, and why space tourism is the emperor's elephant
17 Apr 2025
Keith Rabois defends tariffs as economic statecraft: fentanyl, manufacturing, and the Monroe Doctrine
7 Apr 2025
Delian Asparouhov on the DOD budget freeze, slop in defense investing, and Varda's factory growth
27 Mar 2025
Sila Health raises $27M to automate healthcare prior authorization with AI — Pavle Asparouhov and Delian appear together
25 Mar 2025
Delian Asparouhov: DoD's continuing resolution freezes new defense tech programs, threatening VC-backed startups
20 Mar 2025
Trae Stephens on Flock Safety, Anduril's IVAS contract win, Arsenal factory, and the Good Quests framework
13 Mar 2025
Delian Asparouhov on the market selloff, SpaceX Starship complexity, and why Europe rearming is both necessary and risky
11 Mar 2025
Founders Fund's Bridget Harris breaks down the Prime Intellect raise and where crypto investing goes from here
4 Mar 2025
Keith Rabois on Ramp's moat, humanoid robot risks from China, and why he's skeptical of the crypto reserve
3 Mar 2025
Varda Space lands second reentry capsule in Australia, plans 4 missions in 2025 including pharma and DOD payloads
27 Feb 2025