I personally believe and subscribe to the view that companies should go public as early as possible. I'm in the Bill Gurley school of thought. What amount of
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revenue? What amount of revenue? 50 million minimum,
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but predictability matters definitely. So not just 50, like, but 50 with line of sight to a hundred and knowing a hundred to 200. I wrote a whole chapter in Elog Gil's, you know, high growth handbook on why companies should go public as early as possible. So I've been on this crusade forever. I like accountability, transparency, discipline. I think there are good things. And, you know, there's a critique that like, oh, you're not going to be innovative anymore.
(0:00) The Besties welcome Keith Rabois!
(4:01) Keith explains why he returned to Khosla Ventures, the differences between Founders Fund and Khosla, and his husband Jacob Helberg's role in Trump Admin
(13:09) Business acumen of Trump's cabinet and appointees, diversity of opinion
(25:59) Google's new quantum chip: potential impact on encryption, cryptography, and more
(43:50) Apple developing new server chip for AI inference, iOS flop, why its product culture is failing
(54:30) TikTok panics after appeals court upholds the "divest-or-ban" law, with a January 19th deadline
(1:03:55) State of Venture Capital, why Stripe is still private, thoughts on crypto