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

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gents. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, and this conversation is a long overdue conversation. I have been wanting to make this happen for quite some time. My guest today, Cyan Bannister, is a general partner at Long Journey Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. She was also an early investor. investor in a few names you might recognize, Uber, SpaceX, DeepMind, Flexport, a firm, and has invested in more than one hundred companies. He was most recently a founders fund I was actually an Alpinian Founders fund way back in the day, a top tier fund in San Francisco. You can subscribe to Cyan Substack at Ugly Duckling.substack.com. Her writing is great, I would recommend. subscribing and you can find her online at least on X, the artist formerly known as Twitter at Scientist, one of the best handles I've seen, C Y A N T I S T.

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