Bradley Tusk

10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2025 by Bradley Tusk · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 18, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 6:42
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Everything said about Bradley Tusk, oldest first

Nov 29, 2025

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Tusk: Early Uber Advisory Equity Stake Reached $12M Valuation Following Funding Round

“And he said, oh, we just closed around your shares are worth twelve million dollars.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 34:29 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 positive

Disclosure

Tusk Replicated His Uber Equity-for-Services Model With Clear

“So I did it again with Clear to get them to airports, and it worked out really well.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 35:22 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025

Disclosure

Tusk Loses $1 Million Annually on His Manhattan Bookstore

“I lose around a million bucks a year.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 18:44 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 neutral

Disclosure

Tusk Only Backs AI Companies With Series A Valuations Under $100M

“A lot of the deals that I'm doing are in AI, but they're all really companies where the series A is still sub a hundred million dollars, right? We're right at a hundred million, which is still kind of high, but nonetheless not totally insane.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 53:46 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 negative

Disclosure

Tusk Avoids Data Centers Because They Lack Significant Regulatory Moats

“I don't invest in them because there's no real regulatory issue. We'll get into it. That, I mean, a little bit of permitting and zoning, but not that much.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 4:40 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 positive

Insight

Kalanick Mobilizing Uber Users Was a Historic Political Innovation

“If you have a product that people are really passionate about and you have the right means to mobilize them. You can turn your customers into political advocates and be big, powerful entrenched interests, right? Like I might've deployed that really well, and I…”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 1:08:10 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 neutral

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Tusk Will Never Make as Much Money on Any Investment as Uber

“I've made a lot of investments since Uber and some of them have been really successful. None of them are Uber, and I'm never going to gonna make as much money as I did on Uber and anything again.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 1:11:18 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 neutral

Disclosure

Tusk: Fund II is at 3.5x on paper with no real DPI

“My second fund is seventy million dollars. You know, it's sitting at a three and a half X right now but has no DPI, a couple minor secondary things, but no real DPI yet.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 47:32 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 positive

Opinion

Tusk: Bloomberg and Kalanick are the two smartest people he's worked with

“The two smartest people that I've ever worked with closely are Mike Bloomberg and Travis Kalanick, bar none.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 1:06:21 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Nov 29, 2025 positive

Disclosure

Tusk Is Obtaining Portuguese Citizenship to Hedge Against US Instability

“By the way, I am in the process of getting Portuguese citizenship right now.”

Bradley Tusk Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 1:03:41 What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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