The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

841 Episodes

1. Investor Stories 291: Why I Passed (Ross, Shakir, Zullo)

   Published: 13/04/2023
2. 378. Betting on "Bad" Industries, the opportunity in Alcohol, Nicotine, SexTech and other vices, and Why Early Stage Investors Should Avoid Consumer Investing (Catharine Dockery)

   Published: 10/04/2023
3. Investor Stories 290: What's Next (Andelman, Hershenson, Pruden)

   Published: 6/04/2023
4. 377. From Special Forces to Leading Aleo, The Bull Case for Crypto and Web 3, and The Future of the Internet (Alex Pruden)

   Published: 3/04/2023
5. Investor Stories 289: Post Mortems (Schlacks, Hershenson, Zullo)

   Published: 30/03/2023
6. 376. Architecting a Thesis-Driven Philosophy, Why There's Riches in Niches, How Founder-Market Fit is Changing, and Building the Largest Community of Emerging Managers (Rick Zullo)

   Published: 27/03/2023
7. Investor Stories 288: Strange & Unusual (Eylath, Ross, Hershenson)

   Published: 23/03/2023
8. 375. Founding Unicorn Startup Alloy, How to Scale a Go To Market Strategy, and The Next 10 Years in FinTech (Laura Spiekerman)

   Published: 20/03/2023
9. Investor Stories 287: Lessons Learned (Ross, Viswanathan, Alon)

   Published: 16/03/2023
10. 374. Key Drivers in Cloud and Security, Wiz's Unconventional GTM Decision, Insights on Earnings Predictability, and Lessons from Datadog, Discord, Slack and Coalition (Shardul Shah)

    Published: 13/03/2023
11. Investor Stories 286: Why I Passed (Lefcourt, Hershenson, Viswanathan)

    Published: 9/03/2023
12. 373. Bootstrapping to a Billion Dollar Exit, The History of Options Trading, Competing Against Robinhood, and How to Build a Brokerage Content Machine (Kristi Ross)

    Published: 6/03/2023
13. Investor Stories 285: Post Mortems (Draper, Lefcourt, Sugden)

    Published: 2/03/2023
14. 372. The $30 Trillion Dollar Market Opportunity, Formulas for Successful Consumer Investing, and The Current Macro Environment(Dan Ahrens)

    Published: 27/02/2023
15. Investor Stories 284: What's Next (O'Malley, Viswanathan, Schlacks)

    Published: 23/02/2023
16. 371. Are Founders Born or Made?, What it Takes to Raise a Series A in 2023, and Weighing the Balance of Unit Economics vs Growth (Mar Hershenson)

    Published: 20/02/2023
17. Investor Stories 283: Why I Passed (Mejia Hernandez, Wroblewski, Burnham)

    Published: 16/02/2023
18. 370. Why 8VC's Incubation Model Works, the Most Unique Culture in Venture Capital, and Investing at the Intersection of PE and VC (Drew Oetting)

    Published: 13/02/2023
19. Investor Stories 282: Strange & Unusual (Viswanathan, Lefcourt, Alon)

    Published: 9/02/2023
20. 369. What Consumer Founders Often Get Wrong, How to Build a Culture that Breeds Creativity, and Scaling Bark to IPO (Henrik Werdelin)

    Published: 6/02/2023