Geoff Lewis, Co-Founder of Bedrock Capital: In Search of Narrative Violations

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Lewis is a Founder and Managing Partner of Bedrock Capital. Previously, he was a Partner at Founders Fund and was named one of the Top 100 Venture Capitalists in the world by CB Insights and The New York Times in 2019. In this conversation, Geoff and Anthony discuss his time at Founders Fund, what he learned from working with Peter Thiel, why he started Bedrock, what narrative violations are and why looks for them, what he thinks about new media models, and why growth valuations are overvalued. BLOCKFI-----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS-----Make your crypto currency payments simple and build censorship resistant websites. Visit unstoppabledomains.com and purchase your blockchain domains today! -----If you enjoyed this episode and want to stay updated on everything Bitcoin, blockchain, and crypto. Check out Off the Chain newsletter by visiting offthechain.substack.com and join 35,000+ other investors currently subscribed to my daily investor letter.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening
0:04.5	Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.
0:10.5	Jeff Lewis is a co-founder of Bedrock Capital. In this conversation, we discuss his time
0:16.9	at Founders Fund, what he learned from working with Peter Thiel, why he started Bedrock,
0:22.7	what is a narrative violation and why does he look for them, what he thinks about new media models,
0:29.3	why founders are humans and human make mistakes, and why growth valuations are overvalued.
0:36.4	I really enjoyed this conversation with Jeff, and he's incredibly entertaining and intelligent,
0:41.8	so I hope you enjoy it as well.
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