Sabrina Halper Show

In this episode, Elad sits down with Sabrina Halper for a candid conversation about all things technology. You'll hear his thoughts on:

In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with Sahil Lavingia for an in-depth conversation that goes far and wide.

They discuss:

-his journey dropping out of USC to join Pinterest as the 2nd employee

-founding and scaling Gumroad to $100M

-his advice for others looking to build profitable products and companies

-the current AI wave: which companies excite him, what he's been building, how the competitive ecosystem might play out

-AGI and what our future society may look like

-Balaji's Bitcoin bet

-whether TikTok should be banned

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In this episode, Sabrina sits down with Ben Lamm, CEO & Founder of the biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal. Ben is a serial entrepreneur who has started several moonshot companies, including AI company Hypergiant. Ben co-founded Colossal alongside renowned geneticist George Church. Together they are working to genetically resurrect key species, such as the wooly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo to mitigate climate change and protect against the loss of biodiversity. Colossal has raised over $225M in funding. They're currently building cutting-edge technologies such as artificial wombs, multiplex editing, and in vitro gametogenesis.

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In this episode, host Sabrina Halper sits down with Felix Hartmann (Hartmann Capital), Jonathan Ovadia (founder, AEXLABS), and Dr Doom (founder, LIV). The seasoned guests discuss the biggest limitations to the VR industry to date, Meta’s re-brand and $36B investment, how Apple might enter the space, generative AI's role in increasing productivity and building games more efficiently, how augmented reality will integrate into our lives, and the biggest opportunities for founders to build in the space.

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Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com.

Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper.

Follow Felix and his podcast: @FelixOHartmann.

Follow Dr.Doom’s work: @LIV.

Follow Jonathan’s work at @aexlabinc & @playvailvr. 

In this episode, special guest host Roon sits down with Matt Krisiloff, the founder of Conception and SciFounders. The pair discuss Conception's work with in vitro gametogenesis: turning stem cells into human eggs, which could potentially allow for same sex couples or older women to have biological children. They also discuss the fertility crisis, artificial wombs and genetic selection, his early days as a founding team member of OpenAI and Director of Y Combinator Research, the lessons he learned from Sam Altman, and how the rapid advancements in AI are affecting biotech.  

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Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com.

Follow Matt's work: @mattkrisiloff.

Follow Roon’s journey: @Tszzl.

Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper.

Roon is the Twitter pseudonym we all love. You've likely come across @Tszzl on Twitter, where he has grown over 56k followers under his pseudonymous name "roon" for his smart and edgy takes. He's an AI expert, engineer, an SF stan, and overall techno-optimist. On this episode you'll hear about his thoughts on Elon Musk, Twitter, generative AI, which new AI companies will find success, China's AI progress, his prankster friends (Rahul Ligma & Daniel Johnson), the common personality traits he's noticed amongst his most successful and impactful friends like Vitalik, and basically everything else that's on our mind these days. You'll also learn that he doesn't take anything too seriously. 

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Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com. 

Follow Roon’s journey: @Tszzl.  

Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper.

Tarek Mansour is the 25 year old co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, America's first federally regulated exchange where you can trade on events, just like you would a stock or a commodity. During his time at Goldman Sachs, Tarek was set to help clients hedge their investments during Brexit, but there was no direct way to do it. In 2018, he started Kalshi with fellow MIT classmate Luana Lopes Lara. After three years of work, they got approved by the CFTC and made history. Kalshi’s list of investors include Y Combinator, Alfred Lin at Sequoia, Charles Schwab, Ali Partovi of Neo, and Co-founder of KKR Henry Kravis. In this episode, Tarek talks to host Sabrina Halper about his experience working to change US legislation to legalize future markets, how different founders in his circle approach fundraising, his advice for other entrepreneurs building in highly regulated areas, and his views on all types of things, including manifesting, receiving advice, and which technological innovations are most exciting.   

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Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com.

Follow Tarek’s journey: @mansourtarek_. 

Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper. 

Timecodes: 

0:00 - Intro 

0:50 - Early life, MIT, learning CS, working in finance 

3:45 - Inception story of Kalshi 

6:00 - Pitching YC hackathon & winning 

7:58 - What Kalshi does and who its built for 

10:00 - Why Kalshi ISN'T a gambling website 

10:30 - History of grain futures 

11:47 - The events that Kalshi CAN'T put on the platform 

12:27 - How to prevent people from manipulating events  14:30 - Why Tarek believes the markets predict better than experts 

16:10 - Kalshi's approach to building in a highly regulated industry 19:11 - Advice for other companies building in highly regulated spaces, working with SEC and CFTC 

21:42 - Tarek's view into how crypto will be regulated 

23:00 - Fundraising from YC, Ali Partovi, Justin Mateen before receiving regulatory approval 

25:40 - Competition 27:24 - Putting midterm elections on Kalshi 

30:14 - Misconception of being a young founder 

32:50 - Best advice Tarek has been given  

35:20 - What Tarek would be doing if he wasn't building Kalshi 

36:05 - Most surprising thing about Tarek  

36:40 - What's most exciting about the future: longevity, nuclear fusion, carbon transformation 

39:46 - Who would Tarek like to see on Tomorrow Talk next: Alex from Deel, Tony from DoorDash

Today's guest is Joshua Browder, the co-founder and CEO of DoNotPay, the world's first robot lawyer. He has helped consumers win back over $100M in parking tickets, subscriptions, and more. His mission is to use technology to empower consumers to represent themselves and protect their rights. In this episode, Joshua speaks to host Sabrina Halper about his childhood during his father Bill Browder's fight against Russia's human rights violations, teaching himself how to code, moving across the world to attend Stanford, the inception story of DoNotPay, joining the Thiel Fellowship, living in the house that Facebook was built in, helping customers of Celsius, angel investing, the issues with the modern day legal practice, and his insights into the flaws of American bureaucracy. Please follow, subscribe, and let us know what you think!

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Connect with Josh on Twitter: @JBrowder1 & Instagram: @JoshuaBrowder12 to follow his journey. 

Engage with HOF on Twitter to hear our latest investments & thesis: @HOFCapital & https://hofcapital.com/. 

Get to know me, your host, Sabrina on Twitter: @SabrinaHalper & Instagram: @sabloves.

Reach out at [email protected] with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to shape the future ❤️ .   

Timecodes:  

0:00 - Intro 

1:00 - Early life & biggest lessons from his father Bill Browder  

3:05 - What he expected to do with his life 

3:50 - Experience at Stanford 

4:55 - Thiel Fellowship 

5:50 - Experience interfacing with Peter Thiel 

6:25 - Biggest takeaway from Thiel Fellowship 

7:22 - Inception story of DoNotPay 

10:30 - Viral Growth  

11:10 -  Early days of building the company / Living in the house Facebook was built in 

12:25 - Helping consumers sue Celsius 

14:15 - Will celsius consumers get their money back 

14:37 - The protectionism and inaccessibility of modern day legal practice in the US 

16:25 - Using software to empower consumers to represent themselves  

16:50 - Future of robot lawyers and which issues will never be autonomous 

17:50 - The issues with American bureaucracy today & effects of covid on legal system 

19:05 - DoNotPay's new products to combat institutional racism 

21:30 - How to adapt and think about changing market conditions and tech cycles 23:40 - Ultimate vision for DoNotPay 

24:55 - Do you feel empathy for the business owners? 

26:09 - His unique approach to angel investing  

28:16 - Current conflict in Ukraine and views on where it will go + Putin 

29:35 - What makes him optimistic about the future - Vertical farming & nuclear fission 

30:32 - What modern behaviors or practices will be outdated and optimized out of? 

31:25 - Views on crypto  

32:25 - Outro

Oguzhan Atay is the founder & CEO of BillionToOne, a molecular diagnostics company that is redefining cancer care and pre-natal genetic testing. Oguzhan developed a liquid biopsy tool to test DNA through blood, rather than tissue samples. His approach is way less invasive and way more accurate. The company has raised over $210M. In this episode, Oguzhan speaks to Host Sabrina Halper and Co-host & partner at HOF Victor Wang about the ways this technology will save millions of lives and billions in healthcare spending. He also goes deep into the issues with America's healthcare and insurance system, and opens up about his own philosophy around relentless learning and curiosity.

Q&A with Oghuzan:

One book you’d recommend? I read many, many books (both fiction & non-fiction), so this is a difficult question for me. Zero to One, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Hot Seat, and Martian are appropriate for seed-stage & problem solving; Hard Thing about Hard Things is appropriate for downturns, recessions, and dealing with difficult situations; Amp It Up is good for setting the right culture of high performance; The Great CEO Within is a great guide for concise, actionable, tactical improvements. If I have to select one book, and also choose it based on our company's current stage and how we want to build a generational, category-defining company, it would be "Great by Choice" by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen.

A question you always ask during an interview? What is the one thing in your past that you are most proud of achieving, either because it is truly impactful or rarely achieved outcome, or because you had to overcome significant challenges in attaining it? The reason I like this question is that it identifies superstars & overachievers in a way that does not discriminate against people who have not had the same opportunities as everyone.

Email me at [email protected] with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to shape the future.

This episode covers:

- What BillionToOne is developing with their liquid biopsy technology

- How Gene therapies are innovating to reverse genetic disorders 06:08

- How Gene therapies are re-defining cancer diagnostic and mitigation 09:00

- CRISPR

- How to measure the success of BillionToOne's molecular diagnostic tool

- Health and economic impact of superior diagnostics

- Issues with insurance companies and reimbursement in the healthcare system + the opportunity for disruption

- Missteps of early days of COVID

- Transition from being an academic to a founder

- Keys to Oghuzan's personal & professional success

- How innovation is accelerating

Autograph’s Co-founder Tom Brady is widely known. The other co-founder, and CEO, is Dillon Rosenblatt, a 24 year old, second time founder. Dillon first began his entrepreneurial journey when he started Tutors, a company to connect tutors and students, at age 15. After attending USC’s Iovine and Young Academy for entrepreneurship, he explored the idea of starting a crypto hedge fund which began a deep dive exploration into the space that eventually led him to build Autograph.

In this episode, host Sabrina Halper and Dillon Rosenblatt discuss

Inception of Autograph:

-What first drew Dillon into the NFT space

-How he got Tom Brady and DraftKings on board

-Who he sees as the consumer & user of Autograph

Differentiated Approach:

-Dillon’s plans to expand 

-Why he wouldn’t bring Autograph into the NFT-tooling space

-Dillon’s approach to building out collections that would keep users engaged with the product and brand

-How he thinks about virality and shareability within the collections

Putting the Autograph board together:

-Dillon’s reflections on building a board of moguls and earning the support of industry leaders (crypto: Sam Bankman-Fried, Katie Haun, etc.) (Sports: Tiger Woods, Tony Hawk, Simone Biles etc.) (Entertainment; The Weeknd, Head of Lionsgate, COO of Spotify)

-When to ask for advice vs when to trust your gut

Future of NFTs:

-Web2 vs Web3

-Autograph’s plan to enter the metaverse and offer crypto-native products

-His views on what role “passion” NFTs will play in the future ecosystem

-Dillon responds to: “Are NFT’s a bubble?” and “Will people spend money on NFTs during a recession?”

-Dillon’s opinion on Ethereum as a long term base for NFTs

Personal reflections:

-His reflections on how to learn quickly and act as a young CEO

-Why he’s optimistic about the future

If you have an idea to pitch HOF on or feedback on the pod, tweet at us at @HOFCapital and @SabrinaHalper!