{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Luba Show","title":"The Investor Who Backed 10 Unicorns Explains the AI Bubble - Avichal Garg (Electric Capital)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":7314,"description":"Today I sit down with Avichal Garg, co-founder and General Partner at Electric Capital. Avichal has built and sold companies, worked inside early Google and Facebook, served as a visiting partner at Y Combinator, and now backs founders across crypto and frontier tech.\nWe get into:\n-Why founders are more like artists than operators-What actually compounds a person's trajectory-His \"software eating money\" thesis behind Electric Capital-Why honesty ends up being the real edge in ventureso much more!\nTimestamps00:00:00 Trailer00:00:44 Intro00:01:00 Watches, luxury markets, and the AI parallel00:12:48 Opportunity is a luxury00:14:43 Founders as artists, not just operators00:18:26 Authenticity and cutting through market noise00:24:38 Betting on outliers as a life philosophy00:37:58 Storytelling as a founder superpower00:55:41 How Elad Gil helped launch Electric01:07:55 Why crypto was the wedge for Electric01:19:28 Why he prefers market corrections01:31:00 The firms Electric was modeled after01:36:21 Honesty as the core operating principle01:42:15 Over-committing resources to founders01:51:03 Dodging SBF and reading fake authenticity02:01:40 Outro\nFollow Avichal\nLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/avichalgarg/X: https://x.com/avichal?lang=en\nFollow LubaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa/ \nLinkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudasinal/X: https://x.com/LubaYudasina","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/I2NZEo1VpOK6gNlq1ogpu-hfbOWZMEOuC4oDFfuUFGk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zODI0/ZWE4OTEyOGMzODcw/OGI2ODY5ZWY0YTIz/YzQzMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}