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kevin hartz

T2 · manager / operator

Co-founded Eventbrite (ticketing platform) and Zoom (digital remittances, acquired by PayPal); former partner at Founders Fund; now GP at A* Capital focusing on talent-driven, category-agnostic early-stage investing. Mentored by Pierre Lamond, Peter Thiel, and Roelof Botha.

5 calls·5 names·80% bull·last heard last year·Generating Alpha Podcast
track record

no scored calls yet — needs a stated position or a categorical verdict, with a matured window vs SPY

top calls

highest conviction · one per company
1sthigh conviction
$FUSEFuseposition

A* Capital makes small fusion energy bet as critical humanity-scale investment

Hartz views fusion as almost critical for humanity's future and has allocated capital to Fuse, betting that inexpensive, plentiful fusion energy will be a defining breakthrough of the next decade.

Generating Alpha Podcast2025-08→
2ndhigh conviction
$MOCK-INDUSTRIESMock Industriesposition

Solo founder Ethan Thornton building defense tech company earns 'back him a hundred times over' conviction

Hartz cites Mock Industries founder Ethan Thornton — who dropped out of MIT at 19 to build a defense tech business alone — as the archetype of a relentless founder he would back repeatedly despite preferring co-founder teams.

Generating Alpha Podcast2025-08→
3rdhigh conviction
$GENERAL-BIOLOGICALGeneral Biologicalposition

A* Capital backs contrarian industrial biotech bet on extraordinary founder

Kevin Hartz invested in General Biological because founder Obby's extraordinary resourcefulness and the 'why now' dynamics make this industrial biotech opportunity compelling despite the sector being out of favor after first-generation failures.

Generating Alpha Podcast2025-08→

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$FUSE
Fuse
HIGHkevin hartz·Generating Alpha Podcast·last year· position
A* Capital makes small fusion energy bet as critical humanity-scale investment
Hartz views fusion as almost critical for humanity's future and has allocated capital to Fuse, betting that inexpensive, plentiful fusion energy will be a defining breakthrough of the next decade.
"I hope it's around energy. I I hope it's um around fusion, you know, that we find inexpensive, plentiful source. So that's really, you know, where um there's more investments and…"
27:35
$PERPLEXITY
Perplexity
LOWkevin hartz·Generating Alpha Podcast·last year
Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas exemplifies relentless founder archetype with Chrome acquisition bid
Hartz highlights Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas's reported $34.5B bid for Chrome as a prime example of the relentless founder trait he values, though he discloses no personal investment in the company.
"I'm not in perplexity, but I was just reading the Wall Street Journal before this and he's trying to buy Chrome for 34.5 billion and um he is just like a he's relentless, you know…"
25:47
$MOCK-INDUSTRIES
Mock Industries
HIGHkevin hartz·Generating Alpha Podcast·last year· position
Solo founder Ethan Thornton building defense tech company earns 'back him a hundred times over' conviction
Hartz cites Mock Industries founder Ethan Thornton — who dropped out of MIT at 19 to build a defense tech business alone — as the archetype of a relentless founder he would back repeatedly despite preferring co-founder teams.
"like Ethan Thornton, uh the founder of Mock Industries is a solo founder and he's incredible and um yeah, I'd back him a hundred times over like and and he's doing it entirely on…"
22:40
$A-STAR-CAPITAL
A* Capital
MEDkevin hartz·Generating Alpha Podcast·last year· position
A* Capital adopts talent-first, category-agnostic philosophy blending Sequoia and Founders Fund lessons
Hartz describes A* Capital's approach as an amalgamation of Sequoia and Founders Fund methodologies, prioritizing extraordinary founders over sector theses and giving them solitude to build overlooked opportunities.
"AAR is really an amalgamation of all the things I've learned from the Sequoas, the founders funds, and just from meeting and getting to be to work with so many great founders over…"
17:02
$GENERAL-BIOLOGICAL
General Biological
HIGHkevin hartz·Generating Alpha Podcast·last year· position
A* Capital backs contrarian industrial biotech bet on extraordinary founder
Kevin Hartz invested in General Biological because founder Obby's extraordinary resourcefulness and the 'why now' dynamics make this industrial biotech opportunity compelling despite the sector being out of favor after first-generation failures.
"We backed um Obby is this kid out of Yale um and he's building general biological. It's an industrial biotech business that is incredibly out of favor um with the investment commu…"
18:16