Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor
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We're officially announcing the $100,000,000 oversubscribed growth fund in some of the tier one names. Maybe all the tier one names. Andorl, Etch, Cognition, Cyronic, Modal. When we announced Antifun,
it was like, GW, like, you're making a mistake. Jake is not, like, good. You're you're ruining your career. And we're just like, whatever, bro. Like, Marc Andreessen and Christiczun were some of our very, very first LPs. 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.
Jake, given your career, you could've partnered with a lot of different people. When did you guys know that you were gonna be such a partner?
One way I think about it is that, like, if Jake can just live his life and get a bunch of views and someone has to light a $100,000,000 in fire to get a bunch of views, who do I wanna be partners with? I think a
lot of people in this space don't know how to actually pull cash out. They can have a lot of followers, but not the cash,
and cash is king. What happens when one of the Internet's biggest creators teams up with a longtime Silicon Valley investor? Jake Paul and Jeff Wu started Antifund with a simple premise, back ambitious founders building the future. What began as an early stage venture strategy strategy has now expanded into a new $100,000,000 growth fund with investments across AI, defense, aerospace, infrastructure, and software. In this conversation, they discuss investing, entrepreneurship, resilience, and what they look for in the founders and companies shaping the next decade. Jake Paul and Jeff Wu joined
Jake, Jeff, we've got some big news. Thanks for coming on the podcast today to discuss it. We've got a growth fund. Why don't you share the big news?
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. Andoril, Etch, Cognition, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cyronic, Modal. So yeah. Little just The list goes on.
A lot more collaborators in. Maybe we'll just zoom out first. Jeff, for those who are not familiar from what you can see beyond the surface, how would you describe Jake's superpowers that led him to be the amazing partner for you here? And then I'm gonna ask Jake the same.
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