Longtime political operator and startup investor Bradley Tusk has a simple message for startup founders who’ve been sucked in, like many of their fellow citizens, to the surprise directives and drama coming out of Washington, D.C.: “Keep your head down.”
“Unless you’re literally importing raw materials where now you have to pay a lot more to build your product, tariff news, most of this stuff doesn’t really matter,” he tells Upstarts. “What everyone thinks matters in politics and government, and what actually affects you, are most likely two different things.”