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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Recode Decode: 'The Fixer' author Bradley Tusk

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tusk Ventures CEO Bradley Tusk returns to Recode Decode to talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics." In this episode: (01:40) How Tusk Ventures works; (06:01) Writing "The Fixer"; (08:12) Have tech people gotten smarter about politics?; (13:40) The most important takeaway from the book; (19:49) Local politics and Bird; (25:05) Lemonde and FanDuel; (29:42) Eaze and recreational marijuana legalization; (32:57) Integrating tech into cities; (39:43) Predictions for the midterms and California's independence; (42:27) Techlash against Facebook and Google; (48:01) Amazon and antitrust; (49:53) Mobile voting on blockchain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?

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1:29.0

Thank you for joining us today.

1:32.0

So I'm going to ask you something else, where is the new book called The Fixer, My Adventures Savings Start-ups from Death by Politics?

1:41.0

This is such a topical topic now, since we last talk. Welcome to Rico Dico.

1:45.0

My book may also make House of Hearts seem generous to me.

1:45.0

Okay, all right. So let's go to the background, explain who you are.

1:48.0

We had last broadcasts, you worked for Uber, you worked for a whole bunch of stuff about regulatory issues around tech companies.

1:52.0

So the thing that I'm most interested to this audience is I found that in Run of Enter Capital Fund called Tuss Ventures,

1:57.0

we're the only fund that I'm aware of that works solely with intersection of tech and politics.

2:03.0

So we invested and worked with startups in regulated industries,

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