Erin Gleason Lane

Chief Comms Officer @foundersfund

[Erin Gleason Lane @eag]

For 20 years, Founders Fund has actively avoided media profiles. I finally convinced (some of) the team to provide a level of access we’ve never given a journalist. @mariogabriele spent over a year researching FF, and the result is the closest approximation to the truth to date.

Today, the first part of his series:

[Mario Gabriele @mariogabriele]

I spent 18 months researching @foundersfund.

"No Rivals" is the result.

A 35,000-word series, released over the next four weeks.

It’s a product of extensive research, interviews with more than a dozen key figures, and a detailed analysis of previously undisclosed returns.

[Harris @HarrisSockel]

i spent.... TOO MUCH TIME.... inside the ‘curiosity shop’ where kelly clarkson tried and failed to buy a $15k fake bird, now on sale for $15 million. here's everything i overheard (was insane)

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

Hey Matan - CEO of Cognition here. I respect the work you have done at Factory but your allegations here about Cognition are not true.

We have no interest in Factory’s info and Chris has never brought it up. He has not shared and would never share any information about you or Factory with our team, nor would we ever ask. Similarly, we would never ask our engineers or anyone on our team to collect info about any competitor under-the-table. Chris is an advisor to at least 10 companies, and he told you he was resigning as an advisor on Monday.

The truth is we both wanted Chris and for good reason - he is a living legend with an unmatched reputation for results and integrity. Not only is he the only person who has built a sales org from the first sales hire to over 3B, he also has built incredible teams that he cares deeply about. His people love working for him.

Again, I have a lot of respect for what you’ve built, but competing with integrity doesn’t include posts like yours.

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

“Nobody else is going to do this. If we don’t do this, nobody else is going to do it.”

@generalmatter

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE PIRATE WIRES POD HAS RETURNED

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

MAFIA EP 003

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

MAFIA EP 002

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

we sat 12 tech legends around a table and played a game of mafia. watch the full first episode on x —

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

MAFIA EP 001

[Erin Gleason Lane @eag]

@mariogabriele @ileri Congrats, Mario!

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

in 2013, america closed its last uranium enrichment plant, and lost the capacity to produce its own nuclear fuel. today, general matter signed a lease with the DOE to enrich in paducah, kentucky, bringing the very site we closed back to life.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

There is no venture capital firm like Founders Fund, and there is no writer who tells venture capital firms' stories like Mario Gabriele.

In their respective crafts, both have No Rivals.

That is the title of Mario's epic four-part series on Peter Thiel and Founders Fund, and the topic of our conversation on Hyperlegible.

Sometimes, someone writes something so good that it fills me with a healthy, respectful, chapeau-inducing jealousy. Rene Girard would probably have something to say about that. No Rivals is one of those pieces.

On this week's Hyperlegible, we talked about how he got such in-depth access, how he wrangled everything he learned into the beautifully coherent story he told, and of course, we talked all about how Founders Fund has built one of the best, and certainly the most unique, venture capital firm in the world.

And we end the conversation, as he ended the series, by discussing whether and how Founders Fund will be able to stay original and dominant when everyone is trying to copy them.

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

Part IV: The Kingdom

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

Part III: The Gospel

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

Part II: The Disciples

[Erin Gleason Lane @eag]

@LukeThompson360 @mariogabriele Honestly, it took me more than a decade on the job to convince this group to engage with press in a substantive way -- they don't enjoy it and they don't need to do it. They finally agreed to give me a shot because Mario's work and pitch were so compelling.

[Erin Gleason Lane @eag]

For 20 years, Founders Fund has actively avoided media profiles. I finally convinced (some of) the team to provide a level of access we’ve never given a journalist. @mariogabriele spent over a year researching FF, and the result is the closest approximation to the truth to date.

Today, the first part of his series:

[Mario Gabriele @mariogabriele]

I spent 18 months researching @foundersfund.

"No Rivals" is the result.

A 35,000-word series, released over the next four weeks.

It’s a product of extensive research, interviews with more than a dozen key figures, and a detailed analysis of previously undisclosed returns.

[Sachin Agarwal @agarwal]

Our work isn't finished. Next year, five supervisor seats are up for election, and we're aiming to win them all. We'll also have critical charter reforms on the ballot. These structural changes will help San Francisco run better for decades to come.

Last election, we were outspent by opponents and narrowly lost some key races. We're not letting that happen again: our budget for next year is our largest ever to ensure decisive victories.

We need your help to win. If you’d like to donate to @GrowSF and be part of transforming our city, please DM me or email [email protected].

[Scott Nolan @ScottNolan]

I spent over a year at Founders Fund searching for an American enrichment company to invest in, only to find there wasn’t one.

So we built our own. General Matter is filling the nuclear U.S. fuel gap. We are enriching uranium in America, and we will be shipping by the end of the decade.

Join us to help fuel the next era in American power.