Recode Decode: Keith Rabois

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the current startup and venture capital landscape, the Trump administration and more. In this episode: (01:18) Rabois's background; (04:28) Becoming a venture capitalist and how Khosla Ventures invests; (09:37) The startup and venture capital landscape; (15:06) Why startup fundraising was unusually hectic in December; (19:15) Investing in healthcare, aerospace and autonomous driving; (26:56) Artificial intelligence; (29:02) Ethical issues in advertising and at Facebook; (36:40) Political advertising and Russian media manipulation; (40:40) The prospect of regulation; (46:32) Saudi Arabia and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; (50:04) Contrarianism and book recommendations; (53:45) Being conservative and Rabois' friend Peter Thiel; (58:07) What happens to the Trump administration next?; (1:02:16) Who could run against Trump and win?; (1:04:47) Rabois's real estate company Opendoor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you drive a Chevy electric vehicle, you're getting more than a way to get from point A to point B.
0:06.0	You're saying goodbye to gas stations and how low to open roads.
0:09.0	With the growing network of public charging stations, you'll be able to charge your EV while you shop, work, or do whatever you want to be doing with your time.
0:17.0	Chevy is making EVs for everyone, everywhere. Go to chevrelay.com slash electric to learn more.
0:24.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:32.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief second life, and then was buried for good.
0:42.0	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:48.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:53.0	You may know me as someone who's always picking a fight on Twitter and usually with Keith Roboi.
0:58.0	Anyway, we'll do that after this podcast.
1:00.0	Okay, in my spare time, though, I talked tech, and you're listening to Recode decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:05.0	Today in the red chair is Keith Roboi, an investor and entrepreneur who I've known a very long time, and who was on a very early episode of this podcast many, many years ago.
1:14.0	He was co-founder of Paypal and investment department, Coastal Ventures, Keith, welcome back to Recode decode.
1:19.0	It's a pleasure to be here. I was not a co-founder of Paypal.
1:22.0	Oh, I was nearly executive, I wish I was a co-founder.
1:25.0	I wish I was a co-founder, right?
1:26.0	Yeah, definitely a part of the mafia.
1:28.0	Peter and Max are technically co-founders with Elon.
1:30.0	I think all of you is like a big old group, but Elon came from an X.com.
1:35.0	He did. There's a merger in March 2000, right before the Internet bubble collapse.
1:39.0	Yeah, who wrote that for the Wall Street Journal, that story.
1:41.0	That was to do you.
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