Apax Partners

“Apex became much more of a private equity firm than it became a venture firm. And three I became much more of a growth equity firm.”

“There were cases that That most of us really wanted to get rid of someone, and we didn't, because we were afraid of, and I'm talking about my Apex days, because we were afraid because we were concerned about the you know, the LP response.”

“Scrap the almost everything I did in 1999 was crap. And by the way, I was more active in 1999 than any other year in terms of number of investments.”

“The whole venture industry just started. There were 10 people. I got hired by Apex. So I was one of the first 10 people maybe in venture in Israel.”

“This would have been by far the biggest win of Apex ever.”

“It was 1994, and the whole venture industry literally started overnight, and the whole industry was 10 people, and I was lucky enough to be hired by, ah, to be hired by, ah, Apex, who wanted to open operations in Israel, one of two people.”

“I recall 2008 My third child was born October second, 2008. And there was a bank that was failing in Europe. And I remember I was the only partner. This was at apex partners. I was the only partner in the United States that could actually pull credit lines in …”

“I, now, now I do have misses from the Apex days where I saw something that I wanted to do, but I knew that there was no way I could get it approved, including Facebook, by the way, in the very early days, you know, I saw it, I could have done it. I brought it …”

“I try to convince the partnership to buy, I made the investment in Audible was my first big home run, and then it went public, and it was a good, a great, we sold not all the shares, but enough to make it the home run and then the stock price dipped, and it wa…”