David Frankel: The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses | Why Founders Should Never Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed

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Aug 8, 2026

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David Frankel is one of the great seed investors of our time. As the Co-Founder of Founder Collective he has backed the likes of Uber, Coupang, Suno, PillPack, Airtable, Whoop, Shield AI and many more. In a world of expanding fund sizes, David and Founder Collective are one of the only successful franchises to truly stick to small, boutique funds.

In Today's Show We Discuss:
  • The Bubbles Are Getting Bigger—and There Will Be a Lot of Roadkill

  • The Worst-Performing Funds Will Be the $50M–$100M Seed Funds

  • "We're Greedy for Returns, Not Management Fees"

  • "Pro Rata Is the Original Sin"

  • "A $1BN Valuation Is the New Series A"

  • "I Have Never Seen Secondary Markets This Liquid"

  • Microsoft Has Done a Crappy Job of AI—and Another Dot-Com Crash Is Inevitable

  • OpenAI and Anthropic Will Be Disrupted—and China Could Do It

  • "Anyone Who Claims They Knew Is Full of Shit"

  • Our Children Won't Need to Drive—and Chemotherapy Will Look Prehistoric

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