{"podcast":{"title":"Tacos and Tech Podcast","slug":"tacos-and-tech-podcast-534768","podcast_index_feed_id":534768,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1995075.rss","website_url":"https://risingtidepartners.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1995075/64f2885d3a990179fa48dc2951daae6a.jpg","author":"Neal Bloom","episode_count":202,"summary":"Curating signal beyond the noise. Backing exceptional founders.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T06:19:03.251942+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tacos-and-tech-podcast-534768"},"episode":{"title":"Podcast with Paige Craig of Outlander VC: People Over Plans","slug":"podcast-with-paige-craig-of-outlander-vc-people-over-plans","published_at":"2026-04-28T17:55:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tacos-and-tech-podcast-534768/podcast-with-paige-craig-of-outlander-vc-people-over-plans","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tacos-and-tech-podcast-534768","url":"https://risingtidepartners.substack.com/p/podcast-with-paige-craig-of-outlander","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192889104/df279b8995cb5e0936801294be161965.mp3","summary":"Neal sits down with Paige Craig, Founder and Managing Partner at Outlander VC, the first-check fund that backs founders as early as humanly possible. Paige shares how growing up homeless, bootstrapping a defense tech company during the Iraq War, and years of studying what makes founders tick led him to build a 38-point framework for picking people - not plans. They cover physical AI, manufacturing, defense tech, and why first-time founders still get his first call. And yes, there are duck carnitas involved. Key Topics * Outlander’s first-check model: investing before product or metrics exist * The 38-point founder framework: vision, intelligence, character, execution * Why first-time founders often outperform repeat founders on a risk-adjusted basis * Bootstrapping a defense tech company in 2003 - driving into Iraq to win contracts * Physical AI as a 20-year defining theme * Manufacturing and industrial automation as the next frontier * The coming dislocation of creative talent from AI * Defense tech investment beyond the hype cycle Links & Resources * Outlander * Scale AI * Brad Feld Connect on LinkedIn * Paige Craig This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit risingtidepartners.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Neal sits down with Paige Craig, Founder and Managing Partner at Outlander VC, the first-check fund that backs founders as early as humanly possible. Paig…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2096,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tacos-and-tech-podcast-534768/episodes/podcast-with-paige-craig-of-outlander-vc-people-over-plans/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tacos-and-tech-podcast-534768/podcast-with-paige-craig-of-outlander-vc-people-over-plans.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}