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David Tisch

Managing Partner, BoxGroup · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, an early-stage venture capital firm that has backed hundreds of prominent startups including Plaid, Stripe, Warby Parker, Ro, Airtable, and Ramp. Beyond co-founding Techstars New York City and serving as Chairman of GoodDog, he previously led the Startup Studio at Cornell Tech.

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2 assertions · 3 opinions · 5 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Tisch: Hugging Face Started in a Chatbot Bootcamp Before Pivoting
“Hugging face is the winner. They were in a bootcamp for chatbots. And pivoted from a chatbot into hugging face. So that's your answer.”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 3:52 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN

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Everything David Tisch said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Tisch: Government blocking Plaid acquisition chilled big tech M&A
“Plaid sold, right? Plaid sold and the government stopped it. And I think that that was you know, to me, a interesting moment in The government getting involved in something that was debatable, and I think it also tells big companies, like, don't waste your tim…”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 21:06 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Opinion
Tisch: A US manufacturing windfall from tariffs is a stretch
“The easy guess is like American manufacturing windfall, but that feels Like a big stretch, like no one's building a factory overnight. I feel like that happens in other parts of the world, not here.”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 7:27 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Insight
Tisch: Acqui-hires proved to be an inefficient use of equity
“And I think if you look at the next wave of startups, a dramatic decrease in M&A, because instead of buy, you built and the aqua hire didn't prove out to be the best use of equity. A lot of the decision of buy versus build became easier as you thought about wh…”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 17:50 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Insight
Tisch: Early-stage venture liquidity timelines have lengthened to 12-15 years
“Time for liquidity in early stage venture has gotten pushed significantly from where it was more predictable a decade or two decades ago. You could say seven to 10 years on an early stage fund and mean it. Today, I think you say seven to 10 years, and you're l…”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 22:22 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Insight
Tisch: Startups with plateaued products failing to integrate AI are late
“We're now like three years past that you're early to the game. And so if you haven't figured out how to take your stale product or your product that's maxed out and begin to re-energize it feels like you're a little late.”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 29:53 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tisch: Early-stage startup deal flow has surged to 170% AI-focused
“I think two years ago we were saying like, 30 to 40% of the companies we see talk about AI or are oriented around AI. Last year was like 90, and this year it's a 170%. You don't meet non AI companies right now.”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 11:57 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Insight
Tisch: New early-stage funds inevitably shift later as fund sizes scale
“So if you think about new entrances as funds into the early stage market, most of the ambition is to become a bigger fund, and in doing so, you Become later by nature of scaling your business.”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 24:27 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Opinion
Tisch: Y Combinator continues to compound founder satisfaction and justify its equity cost
“What has been amazing to me about YC is they've just continued to compound quality of the satisfaction to their customer. They are not free, right? You're giving YC equity. And yet if you look at like the happiness factor, the MPS or whatever cheesy acronym yo…”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 24:45 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Insight
Tisch: NYC tech thrives because nobody in the city cares about tech
“Whatever you do in New York, it's like an incredibly harsh environment. And in order to stand out and win in New York, you have to fight friction. No one cares. And that's, what's actually fascinating to me about tech in New York is like, if you went on a subw…”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 32:21 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
Assertion Supported
Tisch: Hugging Face Started in a Chatbot Bootcamp Before Pivoting
“Hugging face is the winner. They were in a bootcamp for chatbots. And pivoted from a chatbot into hugging face. So that's your answer.”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 3:52 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN

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Appearances (1)

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Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 19m
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