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Cyan Banister: The Future is Cool Again / Falling in Love with Technology / A Brush with Star Wars
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Cyan Banister of Long Journey Ventures is truly one of the most successful and interesting early stage venture investors. And by ‘successful investor’, I mean “invested early in Uber and Space-X” kind of successful.
She overcame a challenging childhood that included periods of homelessness (a surprisingly uplifting story, covered deeply in Tim Ferriss’ interview with Cyan).
Here we discuss Cyan’s journey from these early struggles to becoming a prominent figure in Silicon Valley. Along the way she learns to program computers, and co-founds Zivity – an early social networking site one might compare to Onlyfans. She was a partner at VC juggernaut Founders Fund (the VC fund founded by Peter Thiel, that invested in AirBnB, Spotify and OpenAI among others). She also is author of “The Ugly Duckling” substack.
This episode also includes her brush with Star Wars’ “Lucasfilm” (the singular matters), her meeting with Marc Andreesen and her (incredible) plans for the future.
192 episodes
Manage episode 467705265 series 2391304
Cyan Banister of Long Journey Ventures is truly one of the most successful and interesting early stage venture investors. And by ‘successful investor’, I mean “invested early in Uber and Space-X” kind of successful.
She overcame a challenging childhood that included periods of homelessness (a surprisingly uplifting story, covered deeply in Tim Ferriss’ interview with Cyan).
Here we discuss Cyan’s journey from these early struggles to becoming a prominent figure in Silicon Valley. Along the way she learns to program computers, and co-founds Zivity – an early social networking site one might compare to Onlyfans. She was a partner at VC juggernaut Founders Fund (the VC fund founded by Peter Thiel, that invested in AirBnB, Spotify and OpenAI among others). She also is author of “The Ugly Duckling” substack.
This episode also includes her brush with Star Wars’ “Lucasfilm” (the singular matters), her meeting with Marc Andreesen and her (incredible) plans for the future.
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