YNA Statement in Defense Tech - Is There an Opportunity?

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For enderil in particular I thought there was going to be some interesting defense tech company. There's a two-sided coin where you say okay we'll use any type of energy for the right purpose and the right application, he says. More people die falling off rooftops installing solar every year than die from anything nuclear related according to his research. He believes that if everyone had enormous energy abundance and extremely cheap energy everything in society gets cheaper it's a massive deflationary force.

In the 49th episode of the Logan Bartlett Show, Solo Capitalist and angel investor Elad Gil joins to discuss working at Twitter vs Google, the myths of Silicon Valley, the best cities for start-ups in 2023, and the worst advice given to founders.

(00:00) Intro

(01:59) Welcome Elad Gil

(11:24) Working at Twitter vs Google

(12:48) Find your network

(14:55) Why do certain people have so much longevity?

(16:36) Angel Investing areas

(21:34) Finding Stripe in the early days

(25:19) What makes a good product market?

(28:18) Myths of Silicon Valley

(32:42) Decision-making process today vs back then

(35:22) Defining post-market fit

(40:05) Silicon valley lore of grinding is wrong

(46:19) Moving the needle

(49:01) Other silicon valley myths that aren't true

(56:06) Best cities to create a start-up in 2023

(1:02:02) Excitement for AI and other interesting new tech

(1:13:10) What's going on with Twitter?

(1:18:25) Two Modalities for long term success

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.