Bradley Tusk is the founder of Tusk Ventures, Tusk Strategies, the Mobile Voting Project, Solving Hunger, and P&T Knitwear. He serves as CEO of Tusk Holdings. 

Tusk Strategies is the nation’s premier boutique political consulting firm. Tusk Ventures is the world’s first venture capital fund to focus on early stage startups in highly regulated industries, investing in and handling political and regulatory issues for startups like Lemonade, Ro, FanDuel, Circle, Coinbase, Latch, Bird and dozens of others. 

Bradley served as Mike Bloomberg’s campaign manager for mayor in 2009 and worked for Bloomberg at City Hall, as Deputy Governor of Illinois where he ran the state’s budget, policy, operations, communications and legislation from 2003-2006 and as US Senator Chuck Schumer’s communications director from 2000-2002. He was Uber’s first political adviser, helped design and run the campaign to mobilize Uber customers to beat the taxi industry and then turned that idea into mobile voting. 

The Mobile Voting Project makes it possible to vote securely on your phone in order to dramatically increase turnout and decrease control by the extremes. Its code is now available for free on GitHub and legislation is moving in multiple states to make mobile voting an option in local elections. Solving Hunger funds and runs campaigns in states to mandate programs like universal school meals, passing 29 bills in 22 states to date. Those bills provide funding to provide daily meals for 4.75 million additional people (93% kids), unlocking $6.8 billion in new government funding for hunger programs. Tusk Philanthropies has also led the work in New York City on eliminating brokers’ fees for rental apartments, getting rid of the endless scaffolding, closing illegal weed shops and requiring age verification for e-bikes. The organization also funded and led the successful legislation to provide strict legal protection to medical professionals in New York who prescribe abortion medication via telemedicine to women in states that limit access.

P&T Knitwear is an independent bookstore, event space and cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It is also the only free podcast studio in New York City that anyone can use. Bradley is the co-founder of the Gotham Book Prize, which awards $50,000 annually to the best book published that year set in or about New York City. He is the author of three books: a memoir called The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics, a novel about the politics of flying cars called Obvious in Hindsight and a policy book called Vote With Your Phone. 

Bradley is also the host of Firewall, a twice weekly podcast about the intersection of tech and politics. He writes a weekly column for Substack and a column for the New York Daily News. He taught at Columbia Business school and is developing a free AI tool called How to Create Societal Change. He lives in downtown Manhattan, has two teenage kids and is an irrational Mets fan.