I like to say that you can’t make up the crazy stuff people are doing in tech. But venture capitalist Bradley Tusk has me convinced that maybe you can.
His second book, Obvious in Hindsight, which was released to a handful of independent bookstores this week and will be more broadly available later this month, is his first attempt at fiction writing—but the politicians and technological mishaps all stem from his lived experience as a political consultant to startups. Tusk, who was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign manager for his 2009 re-election, made a name for himself in Silicon Valley after he successfully lobbied against Bill de Blasio's attempt to cap the number of Ubers in New York—helping Travis Kalanick keep his ride-hailing startup alive in an important market. Tusk runs the political consultancy firm Tusk Strategies and early-stage venture capital firm Tusk Venture Partners, where he’s worked with startups like scooter company Bird and crypto exchange Coinbase.
