Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash

Jake Paul and Geoffrey Woo argue that creator distribution beats traditional VC capital, with Anti Fund targeting a 10-20B AUM endgame from a $30M start.

• Anti Fund’s Ramp angel entry was at $50M valuation — now roughly a 300x return on Jake’s personal position.
• Aerodome was a 10x in 18 months; proceeds rolled into Flock Safety, where Rahul Mewawala is now chief strategy officer.
• Jake takes home nearly 100% of boxing purses by self-promoting and negotiating directly with platforms, cutting out traditional promoters.
• Jake and his content lead predict video view counts with ~85% accuracy before posting, treating virality as a calculated output.
• Geoffrey argues AI commoditizes ‘traditional smart people work’ (coding, financial analysis), making cultural taste and distribution increasingly scarce and valuable.
• Jake sees AI-generated personalized entertainment — custom games, films — as a potential existential threat to spectator sports’ dominance.
• Anti Fund is scaling into public markets as a next product, citing Jake’s mass distribution as an edge against trillions in addressable assets.
• Jake says investing is the one domain he would choose to be number one in globally, over boxing or content.

2026-04-18 · Watch on YouTube