(Disclaimer: speculation ahead, never having met Sam). > I wonder whether Sam really believes in all these ventures, or if he's just building hype? Part of be

(Disclaimer: speculation ahead, never having met Sam). > I wonder whether Sam really believes in all these ventures, or if he's just building hype? Part of being a VC is having many moonshots in your portfolio; if only some of them work out, that's still a huge win in total, even if the others go bust. So he likely "believes" all these things in the same way that he believes in his portfolio: not that literally all of them turn out to be true, but some of them will, if you just believe in enough of them.