Nathan Cooper
Founder and Managing Partner of Barrel Ventures, a venture firm focused on the food and beverage ecosystem, who transitioned his family's century-long food business into an operator-led investment platform and led early investments like Olipop.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 24min
E332: Why Family Offices Must Go Risk-On or Go Broke
Nathan Cooper, founder of Barrel Ventures who turned his family’s century-old food business into a food-and-beverage focused investment platform. He discusses why concentrating risk where you have operational edge matters. He shares how LPs can be operating partners, why food is an underrated, investable category, and why family offices must move from risk-off to risk-on to preserve generational wealth.
