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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 23:21 Parker Thompson Like, people want to write big checks into big VCs, so I think if you are a traditional series A and beyond VC, you're probably going to do okay if you're really value-add to the Sequoias and the benchmarks of the world.
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 27:08 Rebecca Lynn No, I think it's a 300 to four hundred million dollar fund, and the reason is, A, you know, when I look at the people I really respect and admire, the Sequoias and the Benchmarks, I mean, that's what they've proven out, and, and, and I've…
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 24:09 Harry Stebbings Is it going to be the mega fund in 10 years' time, or are we capping it like a benchmark or a foundry?
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 3:18 Clinton Foy I got to work with some of the greatest creative people on the planet with Final Fantasy, with Kingdom Hearts, Batman, and I loved it, but I always thought there was something a little bit more that I could do, and I started meeting people… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 25:53 Mike Maples It competes as a team, as well as the very best, you know, like I look at benchmark and Sequoia and I have huge respect for their sustained longterm performance. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 9:35 Peter Pham Uh, but I'll never forget, you know, when we met Bill Gurley at, for Benchmark, at Benchmark for Dog Vacay, and I walked in with Aaron, the CEO, and, and, you know, we're in the, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- ▶ 19:32 Greg Bettinelli Some of the top investors, historically, whether it's Kleiner Perkins, or whether it's Benchmark, or Sequoia,
20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Now, you might remember a couple of weeks ago, we had Andy Ratcliffe, founder at Benchmark Capital and Wealthfront on the show, and I'm delighted to say joining us today, thanks to Andy's intro, we have Adam Nash, President and CEO at…
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 20:51 Alex Bangash Excel, benchmark, and increase.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 3:43 Michael Kim Greylock's benchmarks of the world were getting substantially larger, five hundred million to a billion dollar funds.
- ▶ 12:23 Michael Kim The larger VCs like the Sequoia, Excel benchmarks, Greylocks of the world, um, are very focused on ownership into the best companies, and that, that dynamic itself precludes, uh, outside parties
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings So from 1995 until 2004, Andy was a co-founder and general partner of world famous Benchmark Capital. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get the ball rolling today by hearing how you made your way into the world of VC and what the origin story was for Benchmark first. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:58 Harry Stebbings And moving back to Wealthfront and the democratization of online investment management, what, you know, moving from benchmark to Wealthfront, two incredibly special institutions, but what was so special about Wealthfront then to you that…
- ▶ 18:03 Harry Stebbings Do you think we'll continue to see the monopoly-like characteristics of VC with your benchmark sequoias still taking home the top returns, you know, the one percent taking the 95.
- ▶ 20:50 Andy Rachleff So I recruited him to the part, uh, to a partnership that we both ended up working at prior to benchmark. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 20:14 Chris Douvos They'd invest in, like, half of them, and there was this huge option value, and out of those investments came Sequoia and Kleiner and, and TVI, which became Benchmark and IVP and all these things, um, you know, to kind of titans of their…
20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Founded in March 2012 and based in Santa Monica, the company has over 80 employees and has raised forty seven million dollars from investors including the likes of Benchmark Capital and Andreessen Horace.
- ▶ 5:22 Harry Stebbings Potentially a fluffy business maybe, that might be incredibly harsh, and I'm so sorry for that, to kind of an incredible behemoth backed by the likes of Benchmark and First Round. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Harry Stebbings Uh, and so speaking of investors and your investors, benchmark and first round, just to, to name a few that I have to ask, how was the fundraising process for you and how did it differ with stage? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 Aaron Hirschhorn You know, Bill Gurley's on our board from Benchmark, and
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 2:38 Chris Morton And eventually I found myself working at Benchmark, the, the, the fund, and then the first interview said, you know, it'd be, I want to leave here in three years at least, uh, at most, uh, so if I haven't left by then, please fire me. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:33 Chris Morton You know, and when I was at, at, at, at Alderton and Benchmark, we saw Ux, one of our portfolio companies, you know, really begin to, to grow as, uh, as the industry matured.
- ▶ 20:14 Chris Morton You don't want, like, a homogenous board, you want to have different folks around the board who can bring different things, um, and having seen board dynamics from a few of the boards that I, that I was observing on a benchmark in… 2 times in the scene
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 14:31 Harry Stebbings And kind of speaking of comparative moments there, and looking back in time, you've, you've worked with very much the old god of VC, with, you know, Kleiner and Benchmark and Battery backing Friendster, and then now with Nuzzle, it seems,…
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 18:42 Rebecca Kaden I think, you know, and the same goes with Bill Gurley and Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- ▶ 19:14 Rob Hayes Um, and so what it means is, and I think that, you know, right now there's probably, you know, no one that does this better than, than benchmark in this space where they're continually bringing in young people, um, and, and, and growing…
- ▶ 22:01 Rob Hayes One of the people that has certainly influenced me in the VC business, uh, is, uh, uh, Bob Cagle, uh, one of the founders of Benchmark.
20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- ▶ 22:25 Ryan Caldbeck Uh, when, um, Bill Gurley does something from Benchmark, he writes a lot about marketplaces, so I tend to like that as well.