Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor

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🗓️ 22 June 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Jake Paul and Geoff Woo join the podcast to announce Anti Fund’s new $100 million growth fund and discuss the evolution of their investment strategy. The conversation covers the fund’s portfolio, including investments in companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Cognition, Etched, and Modal, as well as the lessons they’ve learned backing founders and identifying emerging technologies. They discuss founder psychology, resilience, ambition, and why they believe attention, culture, and distribution are becoming increasingly important advantages in the AI era. Along the way, Jake reflects on his path from creator to entrepreneur, athlete, and investor, while Geoff shares his views on venture capital, technology, and how AI is reshaping opportunity for founders and builders.

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0:00.0	We're officially announcing the $100 million over subscribed growth fund and some of the tier one names, maybe all the tier one names.
0:09.6	Anderil etched cognition, seronic, modal.
0:14.1	When we announced anti-fund, I was like, GW, like, you're making a mistake.
0:18.5	Jake is not like good.
0:20.0	You're ruining your career. And we're just like, whatever, Ralph. Like Mark and Drescent and Chrisick's when we were some of our very, very first LPs. When you have like the living goats of the industry, being like, hey, you guys are good. It's like, okay, let's do it. Jake, given your career, you could have partnered with a lot of different people. When did you guys know that you were going to be such a partner? One way I think about is that like if Jay can just live this life and get a bunch of views and someone has to like 100 million dollars in fire to get a bunch of views, who do I want to be partners with? I think a lot of people in the space don't know how to actually pull cash out. They can have a lot of followers, but not the cash, and cash is king. What happens when
0:56.1	one of the internet's biggest creators teams up with a longtime Silicon Valley investor? Jake
1:01.4	Paul and Jeff Wu started anti-fund with a simple premise, back ambitious founders building the
1:07.5	future. What began as an early stage venture strategy has now expanded into a new
1:12.6	$100 million growth fund with investments across AI, defense, aerospace, infrastructure, and software.
1:20.7	In this conversation, they discuss investing, entrepreneurship, resilience, and what they look for
1:26.6	in the founders and companies, shaping the next decade.
1:30.4	Jake Paul and Jeff Wu join the podcast to talk about anti-funds next chapter.
1:37.9	Jake, Jeff, we've got some big news.
1:39.7	Thanks for coming on the podcast today to discuss it.
1:42.1	We've got a growth fund.
1:43.2	Why don't you show the big news?
1:44.3	Yeah, we're officially announcing the growth fund that we've been working on for quite some time in some of the tier one names.
1:52.2	A lot of the tier one names, maybe all the tier one names.
1:55.5	Anderle etched cognition, SpaceX, open AIa-high, anthropic, seronic, modal.
2:06.6	So yeah, the list goes on.
2:08.5	A lot where collaborators in.
2:10.1	Maybe we just zoom out first.
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