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An 8-part video series that goes deep into the Marks with Henry Kaestner and Pastor J.D. Greear.
An 8-part video series that goes deep into the Marks with Henry Kaestner and Pastor J.D. Greear.
Trae Stephens is a Principal at Founders Fund, where he focuses on startups operating in the government space.
Previously, Trae was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he led teams focused on growth in the intelligence/defense space as well as international expansion, helping large organizations solve their hardest data analysis problems. He was also an integral part of the product team, leading the design and strategy for new product offerings. While at Palantir, Trae also served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University.
Prior to Palantir, Trae worked as a computational linguist building enterprise solutions to Arabic/Persian name matching and data enrichment within the United States Intelligence community. He began his career working in the office of then-Congressman Rob Portman and in the Political Affairs Office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C. immediately following the installation of Hamid Karzai’s transitional government. Trae graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Today’s episode features Trae Stephens, one of the Partners at Founders Fund. As a venture capitalist, Trae provides excellent insight into what investors are looking for in entrepreneurs. As Trae explains, “we’re looking for outliers.” Find out what that entails and also how Trae measures value by the ability to create abundance and decrease competition. Trae bounces effortlessly between business, theology, and philosophy as he speaks, and we really think you’ll enjoy listening to what he had to share!
You know, I think that on the topic of imitation, I was really surprised during a study where I looked at all of these scriptures that maybe I had kind of known in the back of my head. But I was surprised where things that existed like Ephesians 5:1 says therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.