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Channels with Peter Kafka

Why is this VC on your TikTok?

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

TikTok isn’t just funny dances and glow-ups anymore… it’s also for venture capital!!! Logan Bartlett, managing director at the VC firm Redpoint, reaches out to startups via the socials. He also hosts a podcast called Cartoon Avatars. Bartlett talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about wooing the next generation of tech entrepreneurs, the VC world’s abrupt shift to restraint, and, of course, more crypto stuff. Featuring: Logan Bartlett (@loganbartlett), Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures and host of Cartoon Avatars Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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slash voxpod this is recode media with peter kofka that is me i'm live in studio today

1:09.9

who's welcome bartlett who is at redpoint vent, where he's a venture capitalist. Thanks for having me, dear. Thanks for joining. Did I get Red Point Ventures Correct? Red Point Ventures, yep. Okay, good. That is a VC firm that I used to deal with back in the day because they did a lot of web video stuff. Is that right? Yeah. How long ago was that? I remember 2008, 9-10.

1:28.3

Yeah, okay.

1:29.3

Red Point was like the hottest firm in the last internet bubble, right?

1:33.3

It was like 99, 2000.

1:35.3

IVP and Brentwood came together and like took all their best people and joined one firm.

1:41.3

And IVP, actually, people know this as another venture capital firm shut down

1:44.6

for like a year and then rebooted the whole thing, which is interesting. And so a lot of people

1:49.3

that I'll talk to, they're like, oh, I know Red Point. Like 99, 2000, like huge tech bubble. And

1:54.7

then it burst, right? And we were very media centric back then. And then when the bubble bursts and you're this high-profile thing, I think you kind of retrench for a little while and sort of keep quiet.

2:09.1

And so we kind of kept quiet for like 15 years-ish and just kind of went back to working with startups.

2:15.1

And we've obviously changed that a little bit now

2:18.0

but yeah interesting so now you're here i don't talk to a ton of vc's on this podcast at least

2:23.2

but the reason one of the reasons i wanted to have you on is i saw you on ticot i was like that's weird

2:28.3

i mean ticot gives me food and people dancing um and i guess it kind of makes sense that i'm

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