On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
- Tomasz Tunguz
- Frank Rotman
- Abby Miller Levy
We asked guests to discuss the most visionary founder that they’ve worked with and what makes them so special.
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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 Tomas Tungus of theory Tom, who is one of the most visionary or inspiring founders you’ve worked with, and what makes them unique?
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I’ll pick, there are so many, but I’ll pick bar Moses, who’s the founder and CEO of Monte Carlo. Thinks she is the one who, the one person in the portfolio who has done just a phenomenal job of category creation. She learned it from the incredible Gainsight team, and I think she she spent a long time researching her category, which is data observability. And the commitment to building the brand, echoing a consistent message over long periods of time and becoming a leader in that category is exemplary,
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amazing.
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On today’s special segment, we have Frank routman of QED frank talk about one of the most visionary or inspiring founders you’ve worked with and what makes them unique. So
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we have had a number of great founders. I mentioned David Velez and newbank. You know, he is a visionary founder that had one idea, and he had it for a decade, and he really just wanted to pursue this thing. He was kind of a dog with a bone, and you can see what he accomplished. Another one is Ken Lin Credit Karma. He was a product focused CEO that just had an unwavering view of what he needed to put in the market and how it would solve consumer problems. He had a product development focus that had years and years of depth to it. So he was incredibly good at focusing on the now, but also is insightful enough to see into the future and put a product roadmap together that he personally managed for most of the company’s life, right? So he was one of those product focused CEOs that had his fingers on the product at all times. So yeah, I mean, both of those founders, they are just incredible on the dimensions that they were exceptional at, and I think there’s a lot of lessons to take from them.
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On today’s special segment, we have Alan patrikov and Abby Miller levy of primetime, Alan and Abby, who was one of the most visionary or inspiring founders that you’ve worked with. I
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mean, it’s easy for me to say Alan patrickoff, but, but, you know, co founding a business with Ariana Huffington was was amazing. She taught me so much about really having a point of view. You know, she wrote 12 books, including thrive and sleep revolution, which was the founding of the business thrive global, was really that beating part and her ability to have a distinctive message and figure out how to communicate it across, you know, to CEOs, to the everyday person around why managing burnout is so important to your productivity. It was a pretty novel concept when she was writing about it. So I think having a distinctive point of view and building a product and a business around it was a great lesson, and something especially in this topic of ageing, we’re really replicating for our own fund, and encourage our founders to do the same. So, you know, I think between Alan and Ariana, I’ve got two founders that are amazing to work with. And you know, one is in their 70s and one is in their 80s. And I think it’s very apropos of running a fund called Prime Time to reinforce all that we can and have to learn from people who have more experience than
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we do. That will conclude this instalment of investor stories if you’re enjoying the programme and would like to see it continue, take a moment and leave a five star review in iTunes. Okay, that will wrap things up for today until next time over. Prepare, choose carefully and invest confidently. Thanks for joining me.
