Battery Ventures

“What I've learned through that deal and many others since then is you should really be willing to do a deal regardless of the exact terms that you get, the exact structure you get, because that's how you really test your conviction in an investment thesis. You…”

“Battery was an investor in Frencer way back in the day, and I think they were way ahead, but unfortunately grew too fast, they couldn't keep up, and Facebook ultimately won that market, which is unfortunate for us.”

“This is a SaaS software company in the healthcare space, and we had offers to sell the business for, say, a four hundred million dollar range. After a long conversation with the CEO, we collectively decided to turn that down and to keep going, and we were fort…”

“In the ideal world, what you're looking for is actually a market that might be close to zero today. And that's going to be like 500,000,003 years from now. And it's really the new opportunity, however you want to define it. And there's a rapid and Rapid growth…”

“Prior experience is not required for success.”

“I sort of think about it as the ones of stages, and so there's the one million in ARR standpoint, there's the one million that you're adding a quarter, and then there's the one million that you're adding a month, and so those are three different points in time…”

“I'm optimistic over the course of the next six months or so this drought that we've had over the last quarter in companies going public. I think we're going to see that short itself up,”

“At the end of the day, 2000 companies in a given year will get funded from venture investors and 200 of those will probably be done by firms that, that We would consider peers of ours and quality investors. And at the end of the day, 10, 10 of those will drive…”

“At the end of the day, that kind of creates two different areas that are compressing into a single one. And so it does lead to a lot more funding of companies that maybe four or five years ago wouldn't have gotten funding.”

“If we had looked at the founding team and the infrastructure they built, I think we would have looked past the individual customer feedback, a data point here, a data point there, that said, hey, this is still not quite ready for prime time, and instead focuse…”

“Well, you know, battery came up with a famous slide well now famous slide, but they basically said, I'm going to get the, I think to support 30 sellers, they argued that today it takes a 110 personal organization and that tomorrow it'll take 75. So they're say…”