Bradley Tusk

Tusk Ventures: turn regulatory consulting into equity in Uber and Airbnb

Shaan profiles Bradley Tusk, an ex-policy operator who helped Uber fight taxi cartels and city regulators, then took equity that became one of the decade's best angel returns. He repeated it with Airbnb and built a $100M services firm paired with a venture arm.

“And then he got to invest and Uber was like one of the best investments of the decade for an angel investor. And he did that also with Airbnb, another group that had policy questions. And so any startup that had a regulatory or policy challenge, which actually many do, uh, it was like, oh, we should include Tusk in our round.”