Aug 18, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
In this episode, we're excited to introduce Yoni Rechtman, Partner at Slow Ventures, a generalist early-stage venture firm that has deployed over $1 billion since 2011 across fintech, SaaS, crypto…
Yoni RechtmanGuest
Ross Freiman-MendelHostEdHostAnd I think we'd be remiss on this interview if we didn't talk about your ex-presence.
Oh, I mean, I think if you're thinking, how do you, I think you're asking the wrong question.
And so even if maybe all four of the partners at Slow are involved in an investment, I think they're each involved individually.
And the firm is sort of just a shell or a wrapper that provides them some back office and capital and a venue.
And so I think that... you know, people want to raise money from to the extent that they want to raise money for me, they want to raise money for me, because they want to raise money from me.
And there's just no downside, I think, to being authentic and available to people.
And if the thing that I think I maybe have is like a perspective on the world.
I'd rather just put the perspective out there and also like this shit is fun and we wind up meeting really cool and interesting and funny people and we can beat up ideas together.
I was writing a newsletter recently Uh, I've been writing a newsletter for about 10 years.
I actually recently logged into Slack for the first time through my personal email.
And I think we'd be remiss on this interview if we didn't talk about your ex-presence.
Oh, I mean, I think if you're thinking, how do you, I think you're asking the wrong question.
And so even if maybe all four of the partners at Slow are involved in an investment, I think they're each involved individually.
And the firm is sort of just a shell or a wrapper that provides them some back office and capital and a venue.
And so I think that... you know, people want to raise money from to the extent that they want to raise money for me, they want to raise money for me, because they want to raise money from me.
And there's just no downside, I think, to being authentic and available to people.
And if the thing that I think I maybe have is like a perspective on the world.
I'd rather just put the perspective out there and also like this shit is fun and we wind up meeting really cool and interesting and funny people and we can beat up ideas together.
I was writing a newsletter recently Uh, I've been writing a newsletter for about 10 years.
I actually recently logged into Slack for the first time through my personal email.
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