20VC: Jake Paul on Why Traditional VC is Toast and Attention is More Valuable Than Cash | Politics: Will Jake Paul Actually Run for President? | Inside the Payday of Fighting Anthony Joshua and Mike Tyson | with Geoffrey Wu, Co-Founder at Anti-Fund
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The Twenty Minute VC
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jake Paul is one of the most influential creators of the digital era, with over 70M+ followers across platforms. He transitioned from YouTube stardom to become one of the biggest pay-per-view draws in boxing history with fights against Mike Tyson and Anthony Joshua. Jake is also Co-Founder of Anti Fund, where he has made investments in Ramp, Anduril, Cognition and Olipop to name a few.
Geoffrey Wu is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Anti Fund. He previously built his career at Goldman Sachs and Point72. He is at the forefront of a new model of investing—where distribution is as powerful as capital.
AGENDA:
00:00 — Why Attention is Now More Valuable Than Cash
04:36 — Inside the Secret $BN Jake Paul Business Empire
06:50 — Jake Paul's MasterClass on How to Tell Great Stories
10:50 — Why Jake Paul Is Literally Uncancelable
16:15 — The Brutal Reality of VC: Why Seed Investing is for Amateurs
25:10 — Is AI About to Make the Entire Human Race Unemployed?
33:15 — Trump Endorsed Me: Is Jake Paul Actually Running for President?
41:10 — The 60/40 Rule: How to Build an Unbreakable Relationship
44:15 — Dark Side of Greatness: Is Jake Paul a "Psychopathic" Work Addict?
50:20 — The Ultimate Choice: Boxing, Content, or Investing?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | attention is more valuable than capital. Can VCs become influencers faster than like native |
| 0:06.1 | influencer like Jake and Logan can become VCs? I just hang out with Trump and like the, I go on |
| 0:10.9 | stage and do a speech off the top. And the first thing he says to me on stage when I turn around is, |
| 0:16.2 | oh, you're going to run for office someday. And like, then I, we go backstage and he's like, |
| 0:20.6 | you should be the president. And then he like, then we go backstage and he's like, you should be the |
| 0:21.4 | president. And then he like endorses me. I think he is arguably one of the best presidents the |
| 0:28.2 | United States has had in this term. Money buys freedom. And I think freedom makes people happy. |
| 0:35.9 | This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and today we have such a different one for you. |
| 0:40.1 | Jake Poole, one of the most recognizable people on the planet, is in the studio, baby. |
| 0:45.2 | He's here with his partner, Jeffrey Wu. |
| 0:47.1 | What you don't know about Jake, he's probably one of the best investors of the last few years |
| 0:51.1 | with his fund, the anti-fund. |
| 0:52.7 | They've backed the lights of ramp, cognition, chronosphere, and many others. |
| 0:58.0 | And this is a show unlike any that Jake has done before, ranging from politics to parenting |
| 1:05.0 | to the next generation of great investments. |
| 1:07.0 | This was a fascinating discussion, revealing aside to Jake that I don't think many people have seen before. |
| 1:12.9 | But before we dive into the show today, here's a question for any founder listening. |
| 1:16.9 | What would your marketing team do with an extra 30 hours a week? |
| 1:20.4 | That's roughly what teams get back when they stop manually building every campaign, every workflow, every email. |
| 1:27.1 | Right now your best marketing people |
| 1:28.9 | are spending their day's cloning templates, configuring audience segments, and chasing data across |
| 1:34.2 | systems. That's not what you hired them for. Conversion is the first marketing automation platform |
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