Ben Narasin on raising a new VC fund in a down market, + Natalie Barbu of Rella | E1515
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Today, Jason and Molly speak with Ben Narasin of Tenacity VC about raising a new venture capital fund in the down market (1:30). Then, for this week's segment of OK Boomer, Producer Rachel sits down with Natalie Barbu of Rella (1:00:33).
(0:00) Jason intros today’s show!
(1:30) Jason and Molly speak with Ben Narasin of Tenacity VC
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(59:19) Producer Rachel tees up this week’s OK Boomer
(1:00:33) OKB: Natalie Barbu of Rella 1:25:16 Outro + Plugs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody. We have a big Friday energy on this week in startups. Really you can't get away from it |
| 0:05.3 | It's big Ben energy. That's right tenacity VC founder and GP Ben Narrison is joining us for a whirlwind interview about |
| 0:12.6 | Raising his fund in a down market. You might want to listen to this one at 0.75 speed because I talk fast |
| 0:18.8 | Ben talks even faster and then of course another great addition of okay boomer for producer Rachel to take you into your weekend |
| 0:26.2 | It's going to be a great show. So stick with us. This week in startups is brought to you by |
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| 1:30.1 | Hey everybody. It's Friday and we have a great interview for you today |
| 1:34.1 | Ben narrison is here and he's gonna talk to us about raising his latest |
| 1:39.1 | $50 million venture firm, but doing it inside of a down market |
| 1:44.1 | Ben's been on the show before we're friendly. We do |
| 1:47.4 | You know investments together and he comes to our accelerator in terms of his background |
| 1:51.9 | He's been at NEA canvas and triple point ventures some great investments in drop can divi cards, which we use branch which we use sold savvy |
| 2:01.7 | just great |
| 2:03.4 | investor and |
| 2:05.1 | We were just chatting because Ben heard Molly and Ben meet Molly Wood. I don't know if you guys have met before great to me too |
| 2:11.9 | I think Ben if you don't know Molly Wood from the CNET New York Times and Marketplace where you've been |
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