Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to High Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ Extra) (#780)

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Cyan Banister (@cyantist) is a normal accomplice at Lengthy Journey Ventures, an early-stage enterprise capital agency centered on early and new investments. Cyan was an early investor in Uber, SpaceX, DeepMind, Flexport, and Affirm and has invested in additional than 100 firms. Previous to that, she was at Founders Fund, a top-tier fund in San Francisco. Subscribe to Cyan’s Substack at uglyduckling.substack.com.

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[00:06:16] Adolescence and schooling as a white minority on a Navajo reservation.
[00:11:18] Strained household dynamics and a cycle of neglect.
[00:18:20] The intervention of Officer Pratt and turning into a ward of the state at 15.
[00:22:46] Crusty punk survival methods and life on the streets.
[00:32:02] The optimistic affect of Cyan’s “second” mom.
[00:34:17] Crass, Chris Collins, and computer systems.
[00:38:03] An unorthodox path to angel funding starting with Uber.
[00:48:13] Niantic/Pokemon GO.
[00:56:27] How stalking Garrett Langley led to a Flock Safety funding.
[01:00:07] GameCrush, activist buyers, and classes realized.
[01:07:00] Gross sales classes from the road.
[01:10:08] A aware strategy to questioning narratives.
[01:15:35] The pre-OnlyFans story of Zivity.
[01:24:44] Views on intercourse and relationships.
[01:28:47] Magic glasses, esoteric rabbit holes, and rolling the cube.
[01:44:02] How Aleister Crowley and Invoice Murray paved a path to ex-atheism.
[02:02:21] Cyan’s billboard.
[02:04:41] Enduring a stroke and its aftermath.
[02:08:31] Meditation, throat-singing, and philosophy.
[02:17:50] The Boston religious expertise and duck boat baptism.
[02:40:53] A e-book within the works, the Ugly Duckling Substack, and parting ideas.

MORE CYAN BANISTER QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“I’ve at all times felt like an outsider irrespective of the place I’m, and I believe that’s been great and unbelievable for my profession. You’ll be able to definitely take a look at that and have sort of a sufferer mindset about it, however I took the alternative path, which was that is what makes me particular, that I don’t slot in wherever I’m.”

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“When you’re homeless, you may by no means be un-homeless. It’s actually unusual. Each time I stroll round at a convention or something, I see all of the waste. I see, if I had been a homeless individual, I might come and I might have this, irrespective of the place I’m at.”

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“You must face one thing very ugly, which is your self. You must look inside and see who and what you actually are, after which you need to love your self even whenever you don’t like what you see.”

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“When folks used to say follow self-love, I believed it meant go eat bonbons and go see a very good film and smoke a joint. That was self-love. But it surely wasn’t getting me anyplace, and I used to be like, ‘This complete self-love factor is jive. It’s simply not figuring out.’ However I didn’t understand that self-love is studying give your self unconditional love. And one of the best ways I’ve realized give your self unconditional love is think about your self as a ball of sunshine after which take that ball of sunshine and visualize it outdoors of your physique and cradle it prefer it’s a child. Now, whenever you take a look at that child, would you damage that child?”

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“My objective could be very easy, which is to unfold pleasure, to carry different folks up round me, and to do my finest in my very own approach to finish poverty. Now, I’m not liable for ending poverty. I believe we’re all accountable.”

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“Whenever you begin realizing Oh, I’m in a college, and all of those laborious knocks in life are simply classes, you concentrate on them very in another way.”

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“We’re only a hair away from being loopy, each one among us.”

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“We apply plenty of our personal notion to every thing that everybody says round us. We make up tales which are fiction, and plenty of what folks endure with at the moment are these tales, these narratives that we inform ourselves and each other, and I’ve simply at all times felt like that one thing that somebody stated proper now, it’s not a tough no. You already know whenever you hear a tough no. I do know the distinction between an objection and I simply have a rebuttal for it versus a tough no. And till it’s a tough no, there’s wiggle room to get one thing performed. And so I’ve simply at all times felt this, and it’s attention-grabbing that you just ho[m] ed in on it, however it’s undoubtedly been a guideline in my life, which isdon’t quit. Simply strive totally different approaches. Possibly you didn’t ask the precise approach, or possibly you didn’t give the precise incentives, or possibly it was Monday they usually’re in a nasty temper.”

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“My life has solely been improved by taking myself out of the decision-making course of, as a result of I’m the hindrance.”

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“We’re all in Earth college, and we inhabit human our bodies, however we’re nothing however an vitality pressure inside them. And that life pressure doesn’t dissipate, and it doesn’t go nowhere. It goes someplace.”

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“You’re simply sleepwalking by means of life. And the second you are taking the reins and also you change into the narrator of your personal story, and generally the captain, then that’s when it’s a transformational change.”

— Cyan Banister

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