The Pomp Podcast on Apple Podcasts

“AngelList has always been at the absolute cutting edge of venture capital” – Brian Norgard

Take AirPods, which are now in the “small” category; companies like NeuralLink will one day make them invisible

“Today, voice is not a platform; it’s an interface. It could become a platform.” – Brian Norgard

There’s a human touch (contrast this with words on a screen)

Storytelling is a primal instinct (people have been telling stories much, much longer than they’ve been reading or writing about them)

There are a ton of good founders who are bad at fundraising, and thus, don’t raise adequate capital. On the flip-side, there are a lot of bad companies that were funded simply because the founder was persuasive and good at raising money.

Every year, Naval, Nivi, and Brian, through Spearhead, give up to $1 million to 30 founders; the founders then use the money to invest in friends

AirPods are accelerating the growth—Brian calls them “the second-best product Apple ever launched”

Why do people love the voice/audio interface?

It has a high information density