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Investor Stories 485: Inside VC Anti-Portfolios: Missing Whatnot, Facebook & MongoDB (Dillon, Cheng, Black)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:57
513. Opening Late-Stage Venture to Everyone, Beating 10-Year Lockups, Why Logos Don't Equal Alpha, and Building Power Law as a Public VC Fund (Ben Black)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	44:26
Investor Stories 484: Why Selling Too Early Hurts Returns, The Leadership Power of Sleep, and The Costliest Investment Mistakes (Tananbaum, Ries, Demaree)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:35
Investor Stories 483: Best LP Questions from David Ulevich, Eric Ries, and Larry Cheng: Mission, Partnership Culture, and Enduring Institutions (Ulevitch, Ries, Cheng)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:58
512. Is SpaceX Over or Undervalued, Why Consensus Kills, How Chewy Beat Amazon, and the GameStop Saga from a Board Member (Larry Cheng)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	42:10
Investor Stories 482: Key Advice from a Top Investor and Two Unicorn Founders: Why Companies Pick Investors, Authentic Leadership, and Loving the Game (Austin, Schlacks, Demaree)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:43
Investor Stories 481: Lessons Learned from Centana Growth, a16z, and Emergence: Trusting Management, Spotting Original Thinkers, and Investing Before Revenue (Byunn, Ulevitch, Saper)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	05:23
511. The Future of Military Planning: Defense Tech Beyond the Bubble, AI Software as Combat Power, and the Rise of AI Wargaming (Grant Demaree)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	48:13
Investor Stories 480: The Traits of Visionary Founders: Customer Obsession, Self Disruption, and Why Love Can Be a Competitive Advantage (Dillon, Patnam, Ries)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	07:25
Investor Stories 479: Startup Lessons from Steve Blank, Seth Levine, and Ben Orthlieb: Hubris, Influence, and Founder Selection (Orthlieb, Levine, Blank)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:14
510. The Hyper-Scaler CEO Whisperer and Founder of the Lean Startup Movement on Incorruptible Startups, Building to Thrive and Survive, and Creating a Governance Fortress (Eric Ries)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	57:36
Investor Stories 478: Visionary Founder Lessons from Poshmark, Centana, and EquipmentShare: Love, Listening, and Leadership (Chaddha, Byunn, Schlacks)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:36
Investor Stories 477: Why VCs Passed on Figma, ClickUp, Uber, Pinterest, Okta, DoorDash, and Anthropic: Lessons from Investor Anti Portfolios (Ulevitch, Saper, Patnam)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	07:00
509. The Downstream Effects of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic Soaking Up $3T in the Public Market, Who Is Netscape and Who Is Google in the AI Era, and the Impact of Private Credit Redemption Requests	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	53:13
Investor Stories 476: Staying in Your Zone of Genius, Why People Change for Themselves, and The Hard Lessons of Founder Accountability (Callaghan, Schlacks, Dillon)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	07:02
Investor Stories 475: What Makes Founders Exceptional, Navigating Complex Ethical Issues, and Building with Intensity (Ortlieb, Ulevitch, Saper)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	05:05
508. Maintaining U.S. Dominance, Navigating Defense Tech, Prime Obsolence, and Why Your Startup is Likely DOA (Steve Blank)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	57:51
Investor Stories 474: Trusting Your Own Point of View, Why Conventional Wisdom Leads to Mediocrity, and Building a Personal Conviction Engine (Byunn, Levine, Dillon)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:12
Investor Stories 473: Speed at Legora, Intensity at Mysten, Mastery at Heights Labs — Why These Founders Stand Out (Effron, Austin, Simpson)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:23
507. Consumer Retrenchment or Reallocation, AI Impact on GTM and Purchase Decisions, How to Balance Consumer Sentiment vs. Behavior, and Where Smaller Funds Win (Natalie Dillon)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	35:36
Investor Stories 472: Think Big, Stay Patient, Earn Access — Venture Advice from Foresite, Mayfield, and Blue Moon (Tananbaum, Chaddha, Orthlieb)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	03:40
Investor Stories 471: Missing Great AI Bets, Losing Conviction, and Overweighting Founders — Lessons from Redpoint, a16z, and Outside VC (Effron, Austin, Simpson)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:44
506. Mirage PMF, What LLMs Will Take On and What They Will Avoid, Why Outcomes Will Shift Models from Software to Services, and How Pricing Playbooks Are Being Rewritten (Jake Saper)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	49:07
Investor Stories 470: Passing on Uber, Perplexity, and Fintech's Breakout Winners — The Stories Behind the Misses (Orthlieb, Callaghan, Byunn)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	05:51
Investor Stories 469: What Visionary Leaders at Pixxel, eToro, and Founders Fund Do Differently (Mohapatra, Banks, Orlovski)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	09:16
505. The Ins and Outs of EquipmentShare's $6B IPO, The Construction Job Site in 10 Years, Where AI Thrives and Struggles to Solve Complex Problems, and Roll Ups in the VC Space (Willy Schlacks)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	49:19
Investor Stories 468: Selling Too Early, LP Pressure, and Investor Tension — Lessons from Investors at Foundry Group, Centana Growth, and Andreessen Horowitz (Levine, Byunn, Ulevitch)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	10:41
Investor Stories 467: Investors from Techstars, Redpoint, and Andreessen Horowitz on Strategy, Writing, and Building an Edge in Venture (Cohen, Effron, Simpson)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	05:12
Investor Stories 466: Jim Tananbaum, Eric Byunn, and Ben Orthlieb on the Questions LPs Should Be Asking (Tananbaum, Orthlieb, Byunn)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	05:27
504. American Dynamism: The Future of U.S. Industrials, Backing Companies with Major Production Components, Manufacturing Sovereignty, and Why Space Dominance is Critical (David Ulevitch)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	44:36
Investor Stories 465: Pricing Too Late, Selling Too Early, Investing Too Fast — Hard Lessons from Top VCs (Ramanujam, Cohen, Orlovski)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:42
Investor Stories 464: Anti Portfolio Confessions: Missing Twilio, Zoom, DocuSign, MongoDB, and Solana (Austin, Simpson, Chaddha)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:52
Investor Stories 463: Selling Transformation Not Software, Managing Through Activists and Mergers, and Scaling Culture with Intent (Agarwal, Tananbaum, Cohen)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	08:24
503. The Future of Fintech, If VC Growth Has Become a New Asset Class, and the Case For and Against Vertical Integration in the AI Age (Eric Byunn)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	35:38
Investor Stories 462: Study the Masters, Develop Your Own Eye, and Stop Outsourcing Conviction (Wang, Mohapatra, Banks)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	05:24
Investor Stories 461: Feast and Famine in Crypto, When to Take the Off Ramp, and Evaluating Founder Temperament (Simpson, Chaddha, Orthlieb)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	06:55
Investor Stories 460: The Math Behind Venture Returns, When Sizing Matters More Than Selection, and Growth Over Discounts (Wallach, Okike, Banks)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	05:45
502. A New Era For Venture: Dynamic Capitalism, Finding Alpha in the AI Cycle, Are Bubbles a Feature or a Bug, and Why the Future for America is Still Bright (Seth Levine)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	48:38
Investor Stories 459: Inside the Best LP Questions: Getting Better Over Time, Building Networks, and Driving Outcomes (Effron, Austin, Simpson)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	04:52
Investor Stories 458: Anti Portfolio Lessons: Netflix by Mail, Palantir at the Wrong Price, and the Cost of Price Sensitivity (Madera, Bussgang, Orlovski)	The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified	09:10

Investor Stories 485: Inside VC Anti-Portfolios: Missing Whatnot, Facebook & MongoDB (Dillon, Cheng, Black)

The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

06:57

513. Opening Late-Stage Venture to Everyone, Beating 10-Year Lockups, Why Logos Don't Equal Alpha, and Building Power Law as a Public VC Fund (Ben Black)

The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

44:26

Investor Stories 484: Why Selling Too Early Hurts Returns, The Leadership Power of Sleep, and The Costliest Investment Mistakes (Tananbaum, Ries, Demaree)

The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

06:35

Investor Stories 483: Best LP Questions from David Ulevich, Eric Ries, and Larry Cheng: Mission, Partnership Culture, and Enduring Institutions (Ulevitch, Ries, Cheng)

The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

06:58