Guest

Delian Asparouhov

Organizations

Founders Fundpartner, co-founder Varda Space Industriesco-founder

Interviews

Delian Asparouhov on holiday term sheets, defense manufacturing unicorns, and the K-shaped LP market

Delian Asparouhov: Jared Isaacman is the best possible NASA pick, and the moon is the right pit stop on the way to Mars

Hill & Valley Forum preview: biotech, national security, and international expansion coming March 24

Founders Fund's Delian Asparouhov: Varda lands first publicly traded pharma client, Jared Isaacman unveils sweeping NASA space policies

Delian Asparouhov on the DOD budget freeze, slop in defense investing, and Varda's factory growth

Varda Space lands second reentry capsule in Australia, plans 4 missions in 2025 including pharma and DOD payloads

Delian Asparouhov on venture's K-shaped funding curve, SPVs replacing traditional VC, and the upcoming IPO wave

Delian Asparouhov on China's lithography bet, lunar strategy, and why space tourism is the emperor's elephant

Delian Asparouhov on Ramp vs. Brex culture: focus beats diversification when building a monopoly

Sila Health raises $27M to automate healthcare prior authorization with AI — Pavle Asparouhov and Delian appear together

Delian Asparouhov on Hill & Valley Forum: tech-DC collaboration, defense budget, and Ramp for government

Founders Fund leads $49M Series B in EnduroSat, the 'Dell for satellites' built in Bulgaria

Varda's third capsule returns safely — Delian Asparouhov on Golden Dome, Venus Aerospace, and the space economy

Delian Asparouhov: DoD's continuing resolution freezes new defense tech programs, threatening VC-backed startups

Delian Asparouhov on the market selloff, SpaceX Starship complexity, and why Europe rearming is both necessary and risky

Delian Asparouhov on AI gross margins, private credit replacing IPOs, and the White House space EO

Delian Asparouhov on the YC Demo Day evolution: from 600K seed rounds in 2014 to today's capital-rich environment

Founders Fund alumni clash live: high-margin software vs. capital-intensive hard tech

Delian Asparouhov: Eastern Europe is the new tech frontier, zombie acquisitions are a temporary aberration, and Trump's AI executive orders are coming

Delian Asparouhov: cockpit miscommunication is the hidden cause behind aviation's crash wave

Mentions

Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton, convicted of fraud over fake truck demo

SpaceX Starship Flight 8 breaks apart mid-flight, but booster catch streak continues

Andreessen Horowitz raises $15B across five funds, representing 18% of all US VC dollars in 2025

SpaceX plans IPO at $1.5T valuation to fund data centers in space

Space data centers: compelling physics or overhyped narrative ahead of a SpaceX IPO?

Shaun Maguire under fire for political posts — Polymarket puts Sequoia departure at just 17%

Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster, becoming only second company ever to do it after SpaceX

Benchmark pushed out Discord founder over IPO path frustrations, per Delian Asparouhov

Josh Wolfe on Reflect Orbital, Basic Capital, the collapse of science funding, and his skepticism of humanoid robots

Zak Kukoff breaks down Trump's AI Action Plan, three executive orders, and the Hill and Valley summit

Shaun Maguire on the Elon empire, Tesla Optimus robots, and his bet on Reflect Orbital

Valar Atomics raises $19M seed round, completes thermal prototype, announces Philippines partnership

Saronic raises $600M Series C from Andreessen, 8VC, General Catalyst, and Elad Gil

Are seed funds dying? Delian flags generational shift as top companies skip early rounds

Windsurf chaos postmortem: who's the hero, who's the villain, and what comes next for AI talent acquisitions

Varda Space gearing up for second mission, launching from Vandenberg and landing in Australia

Shinkei Systems raises $22M Series A to resore American seafood with fish-killing robots