The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
Hosted by Nick Moran · Nick Moran
4.9from 282 ratings
- 1,035
- Episodes
- 291
- Transcribed
- 282
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
The podcast dedicated to demystifying Venture Capital. Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti interview VC's & Startup Founders and on how they build great technology startups.
- Publisher
- Nick Moran
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 May 2014
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
291 of 1,035 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
519. Don't Play the Game on the Field, What the 500 Largest Exits Tell Us, How and When to Sell Secondary, and VC's Identity Crisis (Micah Rosenbloom)
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Investor Stories 496: Three Lessons for the Next Generation of VCs: Find Your Edge, Build Your Network, Stay in the Game (Solomon, Vaidya, Chen)
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Investor Stories 495: Perseverance at Roofstock, Speed at Zero, Discovery at Anduril — Why These Founders Stand Out (Black, Chen, Fubini and Patel)
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519. Don't Play the Game on the Field, What the 500 Largest Exits Tell Us, How and When to Sell Secondary, and VC's Identity Crisis (Micah Rosenbloom)
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Do you have a sense, you mentioned risks and taking more risks with the small checks. Do you have a sense for which risks are acceptable versus which you try and make sure is not present in a lead check and maybe it was not something worth I think the things I've made mistakes on, I think we've all made mistakes on, but one is Tam. I mean, Uber is the classic example, but there are so many examples where. We went into something and I was like, well, the TAM isn't that big. How big could it get? And they just completely reinvent a market. And I think it's a little bit of like what could go right and having that mindset to take that risk. […]
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- Micah Rosenbloom
- Glenn Solomon
- Vivek Vaidya
- John Chen
- Ben Black
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- YouTube views
- 2,140
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 247 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 35 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 92 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 100
- YouTube
- 65
- Engagement
- 97
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