Subjects/subject
venture capital
2019-07-28, 1 mention2021-01-31, 2 mentions2021-02-14, 1 mention2021-03-14, 2 mentions2021-05-09, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He mostly uses venture capital as shorthand for people faking success, especially on Clubhouse, where he mocks a 19-year-old claiming to be a VC while driving his dad's car and calls the whole scene a "bag man" operation 1:06:32 55:01. He extends the joke to himself, calling his own inflated self-worth "the VC game" rather than actual comedy 1:42 2:27. He occasionally floats a darker angle, that real VCs are agency-adjacent money men funding tech power 58:11 32:45, but the recurring bit is grift, not conspiracy.
Every Reference (7)
"there's guys in venture capital for sure or yeah work for the agency right and work with hey yeah this is some interesting technology here they want some fun some money"
Tech Companies as the New CIA-Adjacent Power — Episode 158 Part 2 - Tim and Ray on the 3 Evils: Epstein, Big Tech, and Long Island+10s into the segment"probably so off this but what are you gonna do what am i gonna be a venture capitalist come on um yeah it's like i just look at uh and there"
The Hall Monitor in a Rolls Royce Analogy — #237 - Buy The Dip | The Tim Dillon Show"my best friends now on clubhouse they're children they're venture capitalists they all started hedge funds at seven they're all young"
Clubhouse Comedy Show and Entrepreneur Culture — #237 - Buy The Dip | The Tim Dillon Show+7s into the segment"all the tech people all the venture capitalists all all the sales trainers all the hucksters and gurus that sell motivational speed"
Clubhouse: Tech Bros, Gurus, and Losing $1800 on GameStop — #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show+17s into the segment"now we're in the vc game um because you don't have to be a venture capitalist all you have to kind of be is a schizophrenic and my mother"
Fake Business and the VC Grift — #243 - Best of Patreon Vol. 2 | The Tim Dillon Show+7s into the segment"hours a day on clubhouse telling you all the interesting projects they're working on they apparently don't have to actually ever work on any of those projects because they're"
Dinner with Rogan, Ravioli-Throwing Fan, and Lex Fridman — #243 - Best of Patreon Vol. 2 | The Tim Dillon Show+19s into the segment"we met this kid from clubhouse who's like 19 and he says he's a venture capitalist he's like driving his father's car i mean it's like it's the whole thing here is i don't understand how this like that my whole thing when i started i've always been going clubhouse for like like angel investors and vcs he's like where did you get a little some money from like i'm like you can't be a 19 year old venture cap like it doesn't make any sense"
The 19-Year-Old Clubhouse Bag Man — #251 - Dirty Little Animals (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show+52s into the segment