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Nick Moran · Investment

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

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.

Episodes

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478. Classical vs. Jazz Leadership, IPO Readiness & Key Metrics for a Successful Offering, Requirements for David to Beat Goliath, and Why Altman and Other Leaders are Pivoting to Open Source (Somesh Dash)

14 Apr 2025
1h 2m
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Investor Stories 396: Visionary Founders (Chau, Whitmire, Garcia)

10 Apr 2025
6m
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477. The Biggest Misconceptions About AI Agents, Why Defensibility Doesn’t Matter at Seed, and Whether the AI Center of Gravity Is Shifting to China (Aaref Hilaly)

07 Apr 2025
30m
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Investor Stories 395: Best LP Question (Upham, Ho, Yunger)

03 Apr 2025
9m
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476. Fixing Education with a Startup Mentality: The Innovative Micro Schools-Model Backed by Founders Fund, Khosla, and Sam Altman (Ryan Delk)

31 Mar 2025
48m
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Investor Stories 394: Lessons Learned (Chase, Boduch, Whitmire)

27 Mar 2025
6m
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475. Non-Dilutive Capital That’s More Flexible Than Debt, Why Ruthless Prioritization Leads to Scale, and the One Ingredient That Makes a Company Investable at Any Stage (Vince Hsieh)

24 Mar 2025
38m
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Investor Stories 393: Why I Passed (Ho, Yunger, Chau)

20 Mar 2025
7m
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474. The VC Myth, AI Hype, Mastering GTM, and The Smart Approach to Capital Strategy and Achieving Startup Success (Kyle York)

17 Mar 2025
39m
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Investor Stories 392: Disruptive Forces (Garcia, Tusk, Seides)

13 Mar 2025
9m
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473. The Future of AI is Vertical, Why Vertical TAMs are Getting Exponentially Larger, and Lessons from the Sector Giants that Lead to Dominance (Alexander Niehenke)

10 Mar 2025
42m
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Investor Stories 391: Key Advice (Upham, Patil, Chase)

06 Mar 2025
8m
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472. DeepSeek’s Impact on Other LLMs, AI’s Effect on Software Engineering, Nvidia’s Future, and the Next Wave of Developer-First Companies (Joseph Ruscio)

03 Mar 2025
50m
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Investor Stories 390: Visionary Founders (Roizen, Boduch, Ho)

27 Feb 2025
8m
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471. How AI Transforms Services into Software and Revolutionizes Enterprise SaaS (Shashank Saxena)

24 Feb 2025
30m
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Investor Stories 389: Best LP Question (von Tobel, Felesky, Patil)

20 Feb 2025
7m
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470. The Former CTO of Meta on DeepSeek, Lessons from Zuckerberg, The Next $10T Market Opportunity, and the Impact of DeepTech on Energy Costs and Climate Change (Mike Schroepfer)

17 Feb 2025
52m
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Investor Stories 388: Lessons Learned (Roizen, Upham, Ho)

13 Feb 2025
7m
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469. Overcoming the Odds: Pismo's Journey to Build API-First Banking, Fixing Finance's Broken Core, and the Future of Payments (Daniela Binatti)

10 Feb 2025
34m
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Investor Stories 387: Why I Passed (Patil, Chase, Boduch)

06 Feb 2025
5m
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