#780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More)

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Cyan Banister (@cyantist) is a general partner at Long Journey Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments. Cyan was an early investor in Uber, SpaceX, DeepMind, Flexport, and Affirm and has invested in more than 100 companies. Prior to that, she was at Founders Fund, a top-tier fund in San Francisco. Subscribe to Cyan's Substack at uglyduckling.substack.com.

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0:00.0	Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show, and this conversation is a long overdue conversation. I have been wanting to make this happen for quite some time. My guest today, Sion Bannister, is a general partner at Long Journey Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. She was also an early investor in a few names you might recognize, Uber, SpaceX, Deep
0:24.2	Mind, Flexport, a firm, and has invested in more than 100 companies. She was most recently
0:29.6	at Founders Fund. I was actually an LPN Founders Fund way back in the day. A top tier fund in San Francisco,
0:35.1	you can subscribe to Cyan's Substack at
0:37.8	Ugly Duckling.substack.com. Her writing is great. I would recommend subscribing. And you can find
0:44.8	her online, at least on X, the artist formerly known as Twitter, at Scientist, one of the best
0:50.7	handles I've seen, C-Y-A-N-T-I-S-T.
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