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Brian Mac Mahon

Brian Mac Mahon

Founder & CEO of Expert DOJO, a Santa Monica-based early-stage startup accelerator/VC, and Co-Founder & Investor at Matchbook AI.

Sep 17, 2026

speaker_4UNKNOWN
11:50
okay.
11:51
Just give me the spice here, come on.
11:53
So like one, so okay, so let's just say they're different places.
11:58
So politics can never hurt Silicon Valley, ever, in my opinion, because the power of what's being created is too much and the power of who it's being created by is too much, it doesn't matter.
12:09
Like add an ordinance, take away an ordinance, pass a billionaire tax.
12:13
It doesn't matter, it's here.
12:16
People who are brilliant will still come from all over the world, no matter what's happening.

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HumaHOST
19:40
One,
speaker_1MODERATOR
1:29
this to shut the whole thing down.
1:30
That's okay.
1:31
There's literally nobody that I have ever met Who's not raising money? Nobody.
1:37
We're a billion dollar family office.
1:39
We raise money every single day.
1:41
Every person in this room, no matter how rich you feel or how successful you are, you're raising money.
1:47
You've got somebody who you've got a deal that you're working on to do a thing.

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13:05
You got a couple more minutes.
17:42
Where do you see the disruption happening then?
17:44
In the growth, in the customer, genuinely.
17:46
So venture studios are hard, Matt.
17:48
I did a venture studio at the beginning.
17:50
It's grueling.
17:50
It will suck the life out of you 'cause you do the first company and you're just like, "Man, this is cool.
17:56
Like they're really good and we're helping them with growth," and everything that you wanna do in a venture studio goes really well.

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37:05
All right, well, with that, I mean, has there been any maybe considered controversial statement you've made about the startup world that has proved to be accurate?

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