Earlier this week, we sent out a quick survey asking you about your dream angel investors, who you think will start the next big company, and where you’d work if you quit your job tomorrow.
The results are in! Here’s a glimpse into what we heard…
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Your dream angel investors
We asked - if you could have any angel investor on your cap table, who would it be? Outside the classics, like Naval, Elon Musk, Elad Gil, and our own Marc Andreessen - here’s a teaser into the rest:
Ram Shriram - Founding Board member and one of the first investors in Google; previous VP of Netscape
Chamath Palihapitiya - Co-founder and CEO at 8090; Founder of Social Capital; prev VP of User Growth at Facebook and VP/GM at AOL
Sarah Guo - Founder of Conviction; host of the No Priors podcast
Sandeep Swadia - Advisor at KKR, Board Member at Zefr, Investor at Marathon Management Partners
Daniel Gross - VP of Compute at Meta, prev Partner at YC and Director at Apple
The rest of the list is hidden - and will only be shared with people who filled out the survey. If you missed it, get a head start on next week’s survey here.
People you think will start the next big company
We asked - who do you think is most likely to start a massive company, who has not yet started that company? A few names you shared:
Philip Lakin - Dir of AI Transformation at Zapier, prev Co-founder/CEO of NoCodeOps
Caitlin Kalinowksi - Hardware & Physical AI leader; prev OpenAI, Meta, Oculus VR, Apple, Stanford
Rob Anderson - Chief of Staff at Atomic Machines; prev SpaceX, Miso Robotics, Caltech
Vaishali Parekh - PM at Meta, prev Pinterest
Jeffrey Wang - Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI; prev Harvard Teaching Fellow
The rest of the list is hidden - and will only be shared with people who filled out the survey. If you missed it, get a head start on next week’s survey here.
Companies you’d join
We asked - if you left your company, what company would you join? Outside the classics like OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX, here’s a teaser into the list:
The rest of the list is hidden - and will only be shared with people who filled out the survey. If you missed it, get a head start on next week’s survey here.
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