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▶ 1:01:42 Oren Zeev I, you know, between Apex and doing, uh, what I do now, I've,
▶ 1:08:00 unnamed speaker 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…

▶ 45:41 Danny Rimer The Apex folks who didn't really play in our, in our space came in and offered a much bigger, uh, valuation, Michael Chalfin and Mike Risman. 3 times in the scene

▶ 1:49 Mike Chalfen Um, and I left much to everyone's surprise at BCG to join a venture capital firm called Apex Partners, which was then a venture firm in 1996. 2 times in the scene
▶ 3:26 Mike Chalfen If you're a mid-level person, if you were a mid-level person at Apex, you would do the right thing in order to look good, further your career rather than optimize returns. 2 times in the scene
▶ 6:09 Harry Stebbings So tell me, Chalfin Ventures, how did that come from Apex? 3 times in the scene
▶ 38:19 Mike Chalfen Um, there's this sort of dot-com bust and sort of, I had been the glory, you know, the, not the glorious, you know, internet kid, but you know, like the king of, of, of Apex internet, and that was all wonderful, and then it all kind of, it… 6 times in the scene
▶ 46:46 Mike Chalfen And for the combination to happen, all it was going to take was for Apex to say, yes, we would put
▶ 1:22:28 Mike Chalfen You know, when I started, you know, we had an information department in the basement at Apex.

▶ 0:47 Oren Zeev 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 2 times in the scene
▶ 41:11 Oren Zeev At Apex, not because of myself, but because my partners wouldn't do, wouldn't let me in and arguably the biggest one. 3 times in the scene
▶ 46:46 Harry Stebbings What do you know now, Oren, that you wish you'd known when you started investing and started in venture with Apex over 20 years ago? 2 times in the scene
▶ 53:38 unnamed speaker In the case of Audible, you know, I still needed a few, you know, some time to, um, uh, because I needed to get it approved, because I was still at Apex, but with the others, it really, like, within less than 24 hours.

▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Prior to crushing it with Z Ventures, Oren spent 12 years as a general partner at Apex Ventures, starting in Israel, and then moving to the US, where he headed the technology practice of Apex, and the Silicon Valley office. 2 times in the scene
▶ 3:31 Oren Zeev I got hired by Apex. 2 times in the scene
▶ 16:40 Oren Zeev Well, you know, I had like many, you know, at Apex, and it was 30 page at least with another 50% of exhibits, and so even if it was obvious to me within an hour, it still was a process of a few weeks.
▶ 21:44 Oren Zeev I don't want to say hundred percent, because I didn't talk to anyone, everyone, but close to hundred percent of the fund have this concept, and we had it at Apex as well.

▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Zeve Ventures, Auron was a general partner at APACS Partners as part of the founding APACS Israel team. 2 times in the scene
▶ 3:19 Oren Zeev The venture capital industry in Israel was literally born overnight when I was away in business school, and I was lucky enough to have been recruited by a global firm, Apex 5 times in the scene
▶ 10:07 Oren Zeev So for example, and I'm really talking from my own experience at apex, but I know apex was not unique in that. 2 times in the scene

▶ 25:03 Christian Hernandez Alan Patrickoff created Apex as one of the early VCs in Europe. 2 times in the scene

▶ 6:24 Hussein Kanji I mean, you had the pioneers like Apex and you had three I, you know, the founder of Apex Ron Cohen wrote a book. 3 times in the scene

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