Erik Torenberg
| About | Erik Torenberg is a tech entrepreneur and investor — an early Product Hunt team member, co-founder of On Deck and Village Global, and a podcaster/media operator. This is general background, not stated in the source. |
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Erik Torenberg
Author of a saved Aug 9, 2020 tweet thread (@eriktorenberg) that Kyle bookmarked: detailed book notes on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, walking through Piketty’s r > g inequality thesis, the rentier class, and proposed remedies. Torenberg closed the thread with his own view — that he was more excited about fixing wealth inequality “by enabling people to have equity in companies (perhaps by a token-like mechanism),” so people are directly and legibly aligned with economic growth (“Share the pie as you expand it”). The tweet is tagged to Kyle’s Capital Allocation portfolio idea.
On Deck in The Flywheel (2020)
In November 2020 Jake Singer’s newsletter The Flywheel profiled On Deck, describing Torenberg as its founder and chairman, and then interviewed him with CEO David Booth. In the interview Torenberg called On Deck, Stanford and Y Combinator “curation businesses” whose alumni keep the credential valuable, cited a lesson from Product Hunt (expand only into what the first product uniquely enables), and said alumni NPS is the only moat such a business has.
- What’s On Deck for Business School (November 17, 2020)
- On Deck Follow Up — Interview with David Booth and Erik Torenberg (November 20, 2020)
Where this appears
- Book Notes From Thomas Piketty’s… (tweet) — the author of the saved thread summarizing Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century and offering an equity-ownership take on inequality.
- What’s On Deck for Business School and On Deck Follow Up — Interview with David Booth and Erik Torenberg (The Flywheel, 2020)