Juan Orbea

Accurate self-knowledge is critical to getting what you want out of life and to building meaningful relationships with others in both life and work. This assessment is available to everyone so they can benefit from the journey of understanding not only themselves, but their coworkers, families, friends and communities better.

I believe all employees in a startup are on a spectrum between two poles:

Traditional philosophy has been going on almost three thousand years; machine goal alignment has until the advent of superintelligence, a nebulous event which may be anywhere from a decades to centuries away. If the control problem doesn’t get adequately addressed by then, we are likely to see poorly controlled superintelligences that are... See more

But here’s the magic few people ever talk about …We’ve created more than $1.5 billion in value to Upfront from just 6 deals that WERE NOT immediately up and to the right.The beauty of these businesses that weren’t immediate momentum is that they didn’t raise as much capital (so neither we nor the founders had to take the extra dilution), they took... See more

This is Balajian megapolitics in a nutshell. 

Founders Fund recently hosted a panel on defense: a conversation at the intersection of the U.S. government and the technology industry, or D.C. vs. Silicon Valley. Moderated by Dan Primack, and featuring Chris Lynch, Heather Podesta, and Trae Stephens.