Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor

**Jake Paul** (0:00)
We're officially announcing the 100 million dollar oversubscribed growth fund and some of the tier one names, maybe all the tier one names. Anduril, Etch, Cognition, Saronic, Modal.

**Geoff Woo** (0:14)
When we announced Anti Fund, was like, GW, you're making a mistake. Jake is not good, you're ruining your career. And we're just like, whatever, Rolf. Mark Andreessen and Chris Ixman were some of our very, very first LPs. When you have the living goats of the industry and you're like, hey, you guys are good. It's like, okay, let's do it.

**Erik Torenberg** (0:32)
Jake, given your career, you could have partnered with a lot of different people. When did you guys know that you were gonna be such a partner?

**Geoff Woo** (0:37)
One way I think about it is like, if Jake can just live his life and get a bunch of views and someone has to light $100 million in fire to get a bunch of views, who do I wanna be partners with?

**Jake Paul** (0:46)
I think a lot of people in this 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.

**Erik Torenberg** (0:55)
What happens when one of the internet's biggest creators teams up with a long time Silicon Valley investor? Jake Paul and Geoff Woo started Anti Fund with a simple premise, back ambitious founders building the future. What began as an early stage venture strategy has now expanded into a new $100 million growth fund with investments across AI, defense, aerospace, infrastructure and software. In this conversation, they discuss investing, entrepreneurship, resilience, and what they look for in the founders and companies shaping the next decade.
Jake Paul and Geoff Woo join the podcast to talk about Anti Fund's next chapter.
Jake, Geoff, we've got some big news. Thanks for coming on the podcast today to discuss it. We've got a growth fund. Why don't you share the big news?

**Jake Paul** (1:44)
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, a lot of the tier one names, maybe all the tier one names. Anduril, Etched, Cognition, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ceronic, Modal.
So yeah, the list goes on.

**Erik Torenberg** (2:08)
A lot more collaborators in. Maybe we'll just zoom out first. Geoff, for those who are not familiar from what you can see beyond the surface, how would you describe Jake's superpowers that led him to be the amazing partner for you here? And then we'll ask Jake the same.

**Geoff Woo** (2:22)
I think Jake from the outside could be like an entertainer or a professional athlete. But I think to me, Jake's always been a constant entrepreneur, one. And then two, I think he's really created himself as a tastemaker and a cultural leader of his generation, right? Like all the young kids today look up and want to be an influencer. Jake literally created the influencer term in that like job profile, if you think about him instantiating the daily vlog.
So, I think it's easy to, especially with the internet character, like you take pieces of that persona and just put that as a whole human. But the underlying threat is I think he's a very generous, thoughtful, kind human being who is very ambitious and is going to not stop in whatever venues that he chooses to participate and compete in. So I think if it's entertainment, media, sports, and hopefully with venture capital, both equity and investing, we take that on together.

**Jake Paul** (3:20)
Thank you, Geoff.

**Erik Torenberg** (3:22)
Why don't you say the same for Geoff? I'll ask the same question that will get into both your stories.

**Jake Paul** (3:26)
Yeah, I think Geoff is one of the smartest people that I know just across the board. And I think the work ethic and his background being so different than mine as well. We make such a great team, computer science, Stanford, but his deep, deep networks. And we just think similarly in a lot of things. And I think that lends itself really well to being great partners. But yeah, he's nonstop thinking ahead and sees a lot of things before they come around the corner. And he actually said no to investing in my first company when I was 18 years old. And the company failed. So he was right. So just really great judgment, great people you know, this is the people business. And so just being able to really read people and have that EQ as well as IQ is really important.

**Geoff Woo** (4:22)
You're just making us flatter each other.