The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
Nick Moran
1,035 episodesEN-US
Show overview
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified has been publishing since 2014, and across the 12 years since has built a catalogue of 1,035 episodes. That works out to roughly 460 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 8 min and 44 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Business show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 69 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Nick Moran.
Episodes
1,035
Running
2014–2026 · 12y
Median length
25 min
Cadence
Several per week
From the publisher
The podcast dedicated to demystifying Venture Capital. Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti interview VC's & Startup Founders and on how they build great technology startups.
Latest Episodes
View all 1,035 episodesInvestor Stories 497: Passing on Snapchat, Canva, and Hugging Face: The Rules of Thumb That Cost VCs Billions (Vaidya, Fubini and Patel, Rosenbloom)
Oct 15, 20264 min
519. Don't Play the Game on the Field, What the 500 Largest Exits Tell Us, How and When to Sell Secondary, and VC's Identity Crisis (Micah Rosenbloom)
Oct 12, 202648 min
Investor Stories 496: Three Lessons for the Next Generation of VCs: Find Your Edge, Build Your Network, Stay in the Game (Solomon, Vaidya, Chen)
Oct 8, 20265 min
Investor Stories 495: Perseverance at Roofstock, Speed at Zero, Discovery at Anduril — Why These Founders Stand Out (Black, Chen, Fubini and Patel)
Oct 1, 20266 min
518. The Power of Founder Mafias, Why Venture is Bifurcating, and Lessons from Good Strategy, Bad Strategy (Ross Fubini and Manish Patel)
Sep 28, 202655 min
Investor Stories 494: Passing on Outliers, Misjudging Founder Quality, and Holding Too Tightly — Lessons from Notable, Superset, and Fika (Solomon, Vaidya, Chen)
Sep 24, 20264 min
Investor Stories 493: Founder CEO Removal, Acquisition Pressure, and Co-Founder Conflict — Lessons from Investors at Volition, Notable, and Fika (Cheng, Solomon, Chen)
Sep 17, 20266 min
517. Fear and Greed in AI, The Rise of Kingmakers, and Is Seed the Sucker Round? (John Chen)
Sep 14, 202648 min
Investor Stories 492: Best Questions from Grant Emery, Ben Black, and Glenn Solomon: Market Truths, Enduring Value, and Founder Conviction (Demaree, Black, Solomon)
Sep 10, 20265 min
Investor Stories 491: What Visionary Leaders at Jackpocket, Vercel, and Microsoft Do Differently(Peter Davis, Solomon, Vaidya)
Sep 3, 20265 min
516. AI Cost Structures and Pricing, Proprietary Data Sets That Create Moats, and a Clear Method for Determining Which Problem to Solve First (Vivek Vaidya)
Aug 31, 202644 min
Investor Stories 490: Investors from Volition, Acadian Ventures, and Interplay Ventures on Building Competence, Operating Experience, and Investing with Purpose (Cheng, Black, Peter Davis)
Aug 27, 20266 min
Investor Stories 489: Missing Airbnb, Zocdoc, and Prediction Markets — Lessons from the Deals Investors Passed On (Demaree, Peter Davis, Solomon)
Aug 20, 20265 min
515. 3 Multi-Billion-Dollar Exits in 1 Year, Lessons from Airbnb, HashiCorp, Slack, and Square, The VC Case for Staying Small, and the Battle Between Open-Weight vs. Closed Models (Glenn Solomon)
Aug 17, 20261h 1m
Investor Stories 488: Losing Conviction, Overpaying for Discounts, and Selling Too Early — Lessons from Volition, Acadian, and Interplay (Cheng, Black, Peter Davis)
Aug 13, 20266 min
Investor Stories 487: Legal Battles, Founder Fraud, and High-Stakes Conflict — Lessons from Investors at Acadian Ventures, Interplay Ventures, and OneBrief (Demaree, Black, Peter Davis)
Aug 6, 20268 min
514. AI's Effect on the Demand Curve, Investing in Durable Barriers, Large Cap vs. Small Cap Seed Deals, and Building an Internal AI Machine (Mark Peter Davis)
Aug 3, 202648 min
Investor Stories 486: The Traits of Visionary Founders: Ecosystem-Scale Thinking, Data-Driven Truth-Seeking, and Relentless Customer Experience Design (Blank, Demaree, Cheng)
Jul 30, 20268 min
Investor Stories 485: Inside VC Anti-Portfolios: Missing Whatnot, Facebook & MongoDB (Dillon, Cheng, Black)
Jul 23, 20266 min
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)
Jul 20, 202644 min