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Jake Paul

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first: 2026-06-22
most recent: 2026-06-22
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“Yeah, so I think it was actually, again, just being an entrepreneur at heart, but it was actually one of my first loves was the valley and coming out here. When I was 17 with Corey and Alex Debelov actually, and they showed me all these crazy companies.”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't know I was going to go all in. But after the first one, it was like this was absolutely massive. I'm going to become world champion. And that was like a pivot moment where it's like, yeah, this content stuff's cool and doing great, but I can still do content within boxing. But this boxing match was the most viewed amateur event ever. 30,000 tickets sold. Press conferences were getting tens of millions of views, so I was like, clearly, people love this and I love it. And so I'm going to go all in. And then that lends itself to now being one of the highest paid athletes on the Forbes list because of just following the numbers. So I think being analytical as an entertainer is also important.”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From a business lens and always hustled and showed up every single day and knocked down every single door of opportunity and always wanted to grow my network. I think that's been a super powerful thing that differentiates me is always knowing the right person at the right times to ask them for help or ask them for a favor and also doing favors for them when they need you and not charging for it. I think people in this entertainment world are very transactional and short thinking and not professional. They show up late. I've always tried to be the most professional entertainer. And so that's lend itself well. And then when I went to box, it kind of started as this crazy thing. But then it was a million pay-per-view buys, 30,000 tickets sold out. I had a blast doing it. I was like, okay. Content.”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Seriously, I've failed so many times to get to this point and made so many mistakes. And I think it's resilience in this day and age and having a public career as well and being a public figure. I think you have to have tons of resilience. You have to know yourself. You have to go through ups and downs. But I think being an entrepreneur at heart, I always looked at everything.”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's really interesting. I think always being like entrepreneur first and very analytical. And when things are working, double, triple quadruple down. And when they're not just sweep the things under the rug. And so”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I appreciate OG, I remember Corey Levy many years ago said, Hey, I've got this kid, you got to meet, he's building something super interesting. He's super talented. And I was out of town. I was like, you know, he ended up introducing it, but we never ended up meeting. And I remember sometimes I reflect back. I'm like, holy shit. First off, Corey's incredible judge of talent. But too, it's like, you got to take bets on the up-and-coming tech because you never know where they're going to end up. The idea that someone would become a media sort of mogul. Then a professional athlete, then a tech investor. That's like a pretty distinct path. Say more about what other people can learn from how you took your path. Was it all organic? Or what was sort of your strategy or how do you even retroactively make sense of your sort of multi-phenet career?”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think Jeff is one of the smartest people that I know just across the board. And I think the work ethic and his background being so different than mine as well, we make such a great team. You know, computer science Stanford, but his deep, deep networks and we just think similarly in a lot of things. And I think that lends itself really well to being great partners. Yeah, he's nonstop thinking ahead and sees a lot of things before they come around the corner. And he actually said no to investing in my first company when I was 18 years old and the company failed. So he was right. So just really great judgment, great people, you know, this is the people business. And so just being able to really read people and have that EQ as well as I. IQ is really important.”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we're officially announcing the growth fund that we've been working on for quite some time in some of the tier one names. A lot of the tier one names, maybe all the tier one names and or all-etched cognition, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Saronic, Modal. So yeah,”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One way to think about it is that if Jay can just live his life and get a bunch of views and someone has to light 100 million dollars and fire to get a bunch of views, who do I want to be partners with?”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When we announced the ante fun, it was like GW, like you're making a mistake. Jake is not like good. You're ruining your career. And we're just like, whatever, bro. When you have like the living goats of the industry being like, hey, you guys are good. It's like, okay, let's do it.”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Officially announcing the $100 million oversubscribed growth fund and some of the tier one names, maybe all the tier one names and a role etched cognition, Saronic, modal.”
2026-06-22 · a16z Podcast · Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source