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David Tisch

Managing partner at BoxGroup, BoxGroup

Search every verified David Tisch interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. David Tisch, managing partner at BoxGroup, appeared on the Something Ventured podcast in September 2026, where he discussed his firm's investment approach and recent portfolio outcomes. He noted that BoxGroup's partner Claire first met Cursor co-founder Michael Truell while Truell was in college, and he described Cursor's eventual exit at a $66 billion valuation as a significant achievement. Tisch said he prefers to focus on emerging opportunities rather than past successes, stating that he does not "try to live in the past" and that the nature of his job involves looking toward the future. During the conversation, Tisch also commented on the venture capital industry and technology's broader impact. He described investors as "in many ways a commodity" providing capital and services to founders, and he emphasized that founders experience more emotional, physical, and psychological strain than investors. Tisch expressed a positive view of technology, calling it "a force of good" that has enabled access to free educational resources and communication tools, while acknowledging that its benefits are not equally distributed and come with risks and challenges.

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“I think for me it's important to remember that we're lucky in that we have a portfolio and that we're in very many ways a commodity. We're providing capital and some version of service to the customer who is a founder who is living fully in their dream. And so, you can abstract these stories of messiness, these timelines, these highlights, but inside of each of those stories is a human who is going through way more e”

“I don't think technology is inherently bad; I think tech is good and I think social media is good — connecting the world inevitably brings good and bad, but in the grand scheme it's an enormous positive.”

“I think ChatGPT changed the way that people use the internet or the way that people use technology, and they beat Google/Alphabet to that moment somehow because they had it.”

“When you sell the company, you sell the company. You no longer make the choice — you can't have it both ways where you sell the company and then get frustrated that your new owner/boss/controller makes decisions that you wouldn't make because that was the compromise that you traded for the win.”

“I do believe that that moment is the great catalyst of the New York tech scene because I think the concept of the finance industry being safe actually, you know, went away overnight and it caused all these incredibly smart, ambitious people to look at startups and tech as a potential avenue for success.”

“To me, you're either going to sort of clean up the ability to invest in things across the board or you should have sort of everybody operate at your own risk.”

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