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Silicon Valley Figures Play Popular Party Game Mafia in Founders Fund YouTube Series
Twelve tech executives and investors appeared in the first episode of a Mafia game show produced by Founders Fund. The 33-minute episode was filmed at Tosca Cafe in San Francisco and released Thursday on YouTube and X.
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A new game show in which twelve Silicon Valley figures play Mafia launched Thursday on YouTube and X. The series is produced by Founders Fund, the San Francisco venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel. The first episode was filmed at Tosca Cafe, the site of the 2007 PayPal Mafia photograph published by Fortune.
The 33-minute episode shows the players seated at the bar and restaurant while they receive randomly assigned roles and attempt to identify the mafia members. The twelve participants are Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson, Josie Zayner, Tim Urban, Liv Boeree, Ryan Beiermeister, Dylan Field, Moxie Marlinspike, Cyan Banister, Ryan Petersen, and Trae Stephens.
Founders Fund stated that the game has been popular in Silicon Valley for years.
In the game, one or more players are assigned the role of mafia and must eliminate the others while the remaining players try to detect and remove the mafia. " Palmer Luckey made jokes during play that drew attention from other participants. " Accusations were exchanged between Sam Altman and Ryan Beiermeister, who was fired from OpenAI in January, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Mike Solana, Founders Fund's chief marketing officer and the show's host, posted on X that the next two episodes will be released on Thursdays over the coming weeks. The production is the latest media project involving Silicon Valley participants. OpenAI acquired the tech talk show TBPN earlier this year.
