AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10
- ID
- 18886
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 28 Aug 2026, 10:02 AM
- Fetched
- 28 Aug 2026, 10:16 AM
- Provider
- TechCrunch
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ai-athletes-and-keith-rabois-strictlyvc-is-back-in-new-york-on-september-10/
- Source URL
- https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 28 Aug 2026, 10:17 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- saas_founders
What happened
TechCrunch announced a StrictlyVC evening event in New York's West Village on September 10, featuring Keith Rabois discussing Khosla Ventures' early $50M OpenAI bet and his views on founders raising excess capital, plus Craig Shapiro and Jason Levien on sports-as-investment, and Tristan Walker on community-building in an AI-driven world.
Why it matters
This is an event announcement with no actionable technical or business takeaway for builders. The only substantive detail — Khosla's 2019 OpenAI check — is historical and already widely known. No pricing, product, or infrastructure decision hinges on this.
Discussion angle
Skip this in the weekly segment unless someone on the call is attending; the Rabois comments on over-raising could be a brief tangent but the article itself doesn't contain enough detail to sustain discussion.