Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack

the numbers and the new ones behind the headlines. This is Alex and this is our Wednesday show

where we sit down with a guest, think about their work, and unpack the rest.

Today we are talking to Tamash Tungoo's, founder of Theory Ventures, a $235 million early stage venture capital

fund. It's new and you may know him from his time at

Redpoint. Tamash, hey how you doing? Hey I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks so much for

having me on the show Alex. Yeah absolutely and like normally when we have guests on

I have precisely and exactly no fan boy energy to myself

But I have been a reader of your blog for long enough that I was legitimately like oh, he's coming on the show

So thank you for making this a really weird one on my end.

No, I've read incalcable numbers of articles that you've written and all the stories you've broken,

so thank you.

Well, that's because you and I suffer from the same issue of having too many stupid little

thoughts to put out on the internet. But you do a lot more than blog, of course you've been a VC since

2008, 14 years at Redpoint, worked at Google and Appian before that, and wrote a book, which actually I didn't get a chance to read, but you wrote,

Winning with Data, which now feels very topical given all the AI stuff going around the world.

I had the pleasure of writing it with the CEO of

Looker Frank Bien and we wrote about a lot of the data trends it's a totally

different thing to write a book than it is to write a block. Yes because it's about

what 15,000 times as hard you can take?

Exactly.

But it was a wonderful adventure.

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