On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
- Oren Yunger
- Bradley Tusk
- Jon Terbell and Ted Clark
We asked guests to discuss the most visionary founder that they’ve worked with and what makes them so special.
The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area.
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Transcribed with AI:
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Welcome back to TFR on today’s special segment, we ask guests to discuss the most visionary founder that they’ve worked with and what makes them so special. Here’s the segment called visionary founders.
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On today’s special segment, we have Oren younger, of notable capital Oren, who is one of the most visionary or inspiring founders you’ve worked with, and what makes them unique? Every
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founder I work with has their own special, unique superpower. One that I’d like to highlight is Bara Moses, co founder and CEO of Monte Carlo. She’s very skilled at storytelling, and she does it in a very effective way positioning Monte Carlo that is inspiring, not just to colleagues and stakeholders, but really the entire industry around her, she built a category that was not existent as a budget item for data observability in something that you know four or five years ago, people could not, could not articulate and explain, but Now people understand that this is something that is so imperative to how data is being constructed inside organizations that every company is looking to get data observability, and this is as a consequence behind something that Barr was able to push and explain to the entire industry so exceptional leader,
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the on today’s special segment, we have Bradley Tusk, of Tusk ventures. Bradley, who is one of the most visionary or inspiring founders you’ve worked with, and what makes them unique. All right, so
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I am going to promote a guy that gets a lot of shit in the name of Travis Kalanick. You know, I worked very closely with Travis, seriously based with series A and Uber, and kind of we figured out how to rally our customers, how to build this infrastructure politically so that we can legalize Uber and ride sharing and stop the efforts by taxi to shut us down. And do people have criticisms of Travis? Sure. Do people getting shit? Yes, but he is still one of the most brilliant, forward thinking, quick, courageous, dynamic, ruthless people I’ve ever met, and I learned it unbelievable about working with him. And the other one, I would say, is not someone that is a modern day founder, but very much one of the most successful tech founders ever. And that guy is Mike Bloomberg, right? So I met Mike in his political world. But the same management theses that made Bloomberg LP $100 billion company that, by the way, he owns, right? We’re not even talking about that, you know, he was the founder and pocketed, you know, walked away with 12% or whatever. He still owns it. But the all of the underlying principles that went into building that company is the way that he ran his city government, the way that he runs his foundation, all the other things he does. And so I really feel like it was a tremendous privilege to be in the bullpen at City Hall, working with him, sitting right near and learning from
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him on today’s special segment, we have Ted Clark and John turbell of four bridge partners, Ted and John, what is the best question an LP has asked you? I think
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are probably the best questions LPS can ask. Are obviously people focused, in our opinion, and as LPS ourselves, you know, we’re hyper focused on the people piece. So I think you know, for like, best question that we’ve been asked, I think it’s sort of, why are you doing this together? Why are you guys doing this? And, you know, I think it speaks a lot to motivation and alignment, etc. So, you know, why are you two, you know, odd birds, doing this together? I think was probably the best
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one. Why does the world need another fund of funds? Sure, and we believe wholeheartedly that they do so.
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