9: Bradley Tusk (Tusk Ventures)

Bradley Tusk is an American businessman, venture capitalist, political strategist, and writer. He is the founder and CEO of Tusk Ventures, the first venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage startups in regulated industries

SHOW NOTES

• Setting the context: Three waves of the internet (1:00)
• A call from Travis Kalanick (Uber) was an inflection point for Bradley. He took Uber as his first client not knowing what equity was meant. Ignorance is good sometimes 😉(3:20)
• What pushed Bradley to bet on Uber and take equity back when it was a year-old startup (9:40)
• His investment in Coinbase (13:00)
• They need you more than you need them. That's called access to deals. Bradley has built one through differentiation at Tusk Ventures (14:50)
• What types of founders succeed that are building in regulated industries (21:00)
• When should a startup start thinking about regulatory frameworks?
• Removal of Travis Kalanick, you need aggressive founders like Travis to build something transformational, how Akshay BD thinks about policies and regulations in India
• His advice to founders building in Web 3.0 (48:00)