Nobody’s Good at Everything

Firewall with Bradley Tusk · Oct 22, 2026 · 51m

“Management bundles a lot of things together,” says Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta. “I only liked some of them, and I was terrible at other things.” Bahat joins Bradley to talk candidly about how he runs the in-house venture fund for Bloomberg LP, focusing on the future of work. Venture capital is a customer-service job built on lists and follow-ups, he says. He does it with a nine-person team that hasn’t grown in years. Any single partner can say yes to a deal, and the firm publishes its operating manual on GitHub. Though he cultivates interests outside work — “I’m a terrible chess…