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Atlas Venture

also referred to as: atlas

7 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 18, 2016 by Fred Destin · said 28 times in 12 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jeff Fagnan (11), Harry Stebbings (6), Fred Destin (4), Sandy Diao (2), Sonali De Rycker (1), Scott Farquhar (1), Jean-Denis Greze (1), Gokul Rajaram (1)

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2018 13 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2016 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

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Everything said about Atlas Venture, oldest first

Jan 18, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fred Destin Invested $100M at Atlas, Expecting 3.5x to 4x Returns
“If you look at Atlas, I probably invested about a hundred million. You know, I think I'm going to end up being three and a half times my money, four times maybe, but it took forever for these numbers to come through.”
Fred Destin Jan 18, 2016 ▶ 32:50 20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
Jan 18, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Destin: Bit9 almost ran out of money three times before succeeding
“Because some of our best companies, if I look at BitNine, one of the Atlas companies in the That is a phenomenal success story. They almost ran out of money three times”
Fred Destin Jan 18, 2016 ▶ 12:51 20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
Feb 10, 2016 bullish
Disclosure
Atlas Venture led AngelList's Series A and all subsequent rounds
“Atlas would end up leading the Series A for AngelList very quietly. And have invested in every round since, and I think just continue to drink the Kool-Aid around online investing.”
Dustin Dolginow Feb 10, 2016 ▶ 5:15 20VC: The First Online Venture Fund Built On AngelList with Dustin Dolginow @ Maiden Lane
Aug 13, 2018 bullish
What-if
Consensus decision-making cost Atlas Venture the Dropbox seed round
“And if that would have been the case, you know, Dropbox, we would have led to see the series a and probably kept a drew in Boston and it would have just changed everything.”
Jeff Fagnan Aug 13, 2018 ▶ 15:21 20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
Aug 13, 2018
Assertion Supported
Atlas allowed partners to write $1M checks on individual conviction
“We set up where any partner on their own conviction could write up to a million dollar check on meeting an entrepreneur.”
Jeff Fagnan Aug 13, 2018 ▶ 15:35 20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
Aug 13, 2018 positive
Insight
Individual partner accountability beats large VC consensus committees
“Fewer people taking deeper accountability for decisions was much better than this approach.”
Jeff Fagnan Aug 13, 2018 ▶ 12:03 20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
Feb 21, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Emberikos: OpenAI is building Atlas browser for safe enterprise agentic browsing
“And, you know, I think it's quite unusual, like in OpenAI, we're building a browser, Atlas, right? And you might wonder why. And there are many reasons why, but I think one of the key reasons is that by building a browser, we can build sort of S and by control…”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 14:05 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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