Geoffrey Woo

Geoffrey Woo prices fifteen minutes of his attention at a minimum of 1,000 dollars, having started around 300 dollars and raised it each time demand outran the available slots. He ghosts roughly 90 percent of what reaches his inbox, delegates the next 9 percent to an executive, and handles the top 1 percent himself.¹

Woo is an investor, entrepreneur, and creator, and the co-founder and managing partner of Anti Fund, the venture firm he started with Jake Paul. He studied computer science at Stanford and went through Y Combinator with an earlier startup, Nootrobox, later renamed HVMN, before moving into investing.

Woo's clearest track record runs through Ramp. His first-ever angel investment was in Paribus, the company Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh sold to Capital One in 2016, and he went on to back Ramp's seed and Series B rounds before almost anyone else did, when Ramp was, in his own words, still "your weird friend credit card company." The bet returned more than 100 times his investment.² Woo traces Anti Fund's founding to a January 2021 trip to Miami, where Ramp's roommate-founders had turned their suite into a hub where investors from Wall Street and Silicon Valley "paid homage" while San Francisco sat in COVID lockdown; reconnecting with Jake Paul there became, in his account, a driving cause of starting the fund. From Glyman he says he absorbed the practice of building a cap table for value-add per dollar of dilution rather than chasing the biggest name, a lesson he says he now applies to every company he touches.²

That price list is one piece of an unusually explicit personal operating system Woo has published across a series of essays on his own site. His advice to people trying to break into venture capital is to bring one of three kinds of flow, capital, information, or people, and to prove it with a fixed daily submission for thirty days straight rather than a single pitch.³ His own leverage comes from which companies and people he chooses to back, not from operating one company himself.