Gas Stations in Space and Carried Interest on the Chopping Block | E2082
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Today’s show: Jason and Alex discuss the carried interest tax loophole being in Trump’s crosshairs, a great interview with Orbit Fab and their plans for the industrialization of space, Deel’s $300M secondary and much more!
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(11:25) Would ending the carried interest tax loophole hurt startup investing?
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| 0:00.0 | If they put a $150 million check in, Mubadala and General Catalyst each, let's say they split it. |
| 0:06.3 | Sure. |
| 0:07.1 | That would be a very big check size. |
| 0:09.3 | You can't put that into Series A. |
| 0:11.0 | That's 10 Series A's, you know, or 20 Series A's. |
| 0:13.9 | That's 50 seed rounds. |
| 0:15.7 | Well, you might be able to put into an AI Series A, but any other normal non-AI foundation model company series A is going to be |
| 0:22.0 | much, much smaller than that. |
| 0:23.8 | Well, valuation is a couple's aside. |
| 0:25.9 | By the way, just I'll end on this. |
| 0:27.0 | It's a really good sign that secondary is happening because secondary doesn't happen if the valuation |
| 0:33.3 | doesn't make sense and there's a clear path to the next milestones. So congratulations |
| 0:38.6 | to the deal team and to the early investors who get some liquidity. |
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