RuntimeWire founder recounts addiction, betrayal and a career rebuilt through code on The Pedro Frias Show
On The Pedro Frias Show, tech investor Ryan Merket traces his path from teenage reverse engineering and addiction to Facebook, Reddit, AWS and Comal Ventures.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: The Pedro Frias Show
Why it matters
Merket's story challenges venture capital's fixation on aggression, while the undisclosed performance of his portfolio leaves the financial case for his founder-first model unproven.
RuntimeWire founder Ryan Merket (@merket) used a July 20th episode of The Pedro Frias Show to recount the addiction, professional rejection and founder disputes behind a career that eventually took him through Facebook, Reddit and Amazon Web Services.…
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