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Kevin Hartz | Backing Teen Founders, Lessons from the PayPal Mafia
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Kevin Hartz, Co-founder of A*, Eventbrite, Xoom, and Sauron. Kevin has been building and investing in technology companies for 30 years, and we talk about how the industry’s evolved, why he calls AI the Mother of All Bubbles, why we’re still early, and lessons today’s breakout AI companies can learn from those that survived the Dot Com Crash. Kevin is a big proponent of backing young founders. A significant percentage of his latest fund at A* is invested in teenagers, and he shares how he identifies outlier talent so early, from Seed investments in Airbnb, PayPal, and Pinterest, to many of today’s hottest AI companies. He also shares the insane story of investing 100% of the proceeds from…