Paul Erlanger

Co-founder and CEO, FOMO · Person

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Paul Erlanger — Co-founder and CEO, FOMO. Tracked across 18 mentions in podcasts and expert conversations analyzed by Sonic.

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Paul Erlanger advises computer science students to use less AI in their studies to build fundamental skills, believing the best current engineers developed their skills without it.

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Paul Erlanger predicts that the IPO performance of OpenAI and Anthropic will be highly correlated with the performance of the SpaceX IPO.

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The founders of FOMO took a small secondary sale in their Series B round.

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Paul Erlanger advises computer science students to use less AI in their studies to build fundamental skills, believing the best current engineers developed their skills without it.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

Paul Erlanger predicts that the IPO performance of OpenAI and Anthropic will be highly correlated with the performance of the SpaceX IPO.

SpeculativePaul ErlangerJun 27

The founders of FOMO took a small secondary sale in their Series B round.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

FOMO has between 50,000 and 60,000 daily active users.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

FOMO's core group of 5 to 10 early, non-founding employees received founder-level equity stakes.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

FOMO raised a $75 million Series B round at a $550 million post-money valuation.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

In FOMO's $75 million Series B round, Index Ventures invested $55 million and Union Square Ventures (USV) invested $15 million.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

FOMO plans to launch global access to equities and perpetuals for non-US users.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

A FOMO user known as Iceman reportedly turned $10,000 into $2.5 million in a single night on the platform.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

Paul Erlanger notes that the cost of Claude Code credits has recently become "really expensive."

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

Paul Erlanger believes it is feasible for a company to spend 20% of its developer salaries on AI model tokens at their current prices.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

Engineers at FOMO primarily use Claude Code and Codex as their AI coding assistants.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

FOMO manages its creator marketing in-house with a team that oversees a portfolio of 30 to 40 creators.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

Robinhood has over 20 million funded accounts in the United States.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

Paul Erlanger believes Clubhouse's decline was caused by prioritizing celebrity users over its core user base, which alienated the platform's most dedicated community.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

FOMO aims to keep its total headcount below 25 employees within the next year.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

Paul Erlanger advises founders to delay announcing a funding round if they plan to raise capital again in the near future to avoid distracting inbound investor interest.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

For the first 8 months of building the company, no one on the FOMO team took any pay.

Expert perspectivePaul ErlangerJun 27

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