EP95: The world’s first VC fund investing solely in highly regulated industries - Bradley Tusk
Background
Described as Silicon Valley's Political Savior (Fast Company), Uber's Political Genius (Vanity Fair) and Silicon Valley's Favorite Fixer (TechCrunch), Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist and writer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highly regulated industries. Previously, Bradley served as campaign manager for Mike Bloomberg’s 2009 mayoral race, as Deputy Governor of Illinois, overseeing the state’s budget, operations, legislation, policy and communications, as communications director for US Senator Chuck Schumer, and as Uber’s first political advisor.
Episode Brief
Tusk Ventures Founder and CEO Bradley Tusk joins Peter on this week’s episode to discuss:
Why “highly-regulated” is their investing strike zone
Advising Andrew Yang’s mayoral campaign and his NYC Request for Improvements
How politicians can advocate for climate progress
Examples of how they use their political expertise to support founders
Founding Ivory Gaming Acquisition Corp and where they have their eyes set
The different moonshot projects he’s incubating, like mobile voting
Credits
HOST
Peter Levin
PRODUCTION
Dan Mahoney
MUSIC
Eddie Knuckles