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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
20VC: What Is Core To The Best Investor - Founder Relationships, The Biggest Risk For Founders In The Early Days & Why EQ Is The Most Important Trait For Managers with Jack Altman, Founder & CEO @ Lattice
- ▶ 8:51 Jack Altman And so for better or for worse, if you have miles from thrive or say benchmark or some great firm on your cap table, that indicates to employees that the homework has already been done by people who have much more experience than them and…
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 13:26 Harry Stebbings Being the investing element and founder assessment in particular, we had Peter Fenton on the show from benchmark and he said the best founders make him feel uneasy.
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 17:07 Semil Shah Yeah, and I don't know if it's right, but I think, let's look at benchmark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:25 Semil Shah It's the same analogy of why doesn't Benchmark do, you know, angel and seed investing?
20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun
- ▶ 12:09 Roger Dickey You see, you know, with the recent news about benchmark and Uber, when investors don't support their founders, there's a very large backlash that you see in Silicon Valley.
20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- ▶ 16:36 Mike Volpi And then there are other firms like say benchmark who have done a terrific job without those kinds of services.
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Prior to Nuzzle, Jonathan was the founder of early social media machine, Friendster, attaining funding from Benchmark Kleiner and Reid Hoffman.
- ▶ 8:55 Harry Stebbings Speaking of killing it, I'm sure one person that will agree has killed it over the past few years is Peter Fenton at Benchmark, one that you made the intro to, so huge thank you to that, because without that, the interview we had with him… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Harry Stebbings How much of a role do you think that just the backing from the brand of a Sequoia or a Benchmark or a Light
20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings It'd be great to see you there, but to the show today, and as you know, we have guests that range from billion-dollar growth funds to benchmarks of the world to the youngest and most exciting seed funds, and today's guest sits in the…
- ▶ 5:50 Michael Ma Benchmark, lowercase, they're all generalist funds.
20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- ▶ 7:09 Harry Stebbings I had Peter Fenton on the show the other day from Benchmark, and he said the great investors in consumer apply the same skills in SaaS, and you obviously mentioned kind of CAC and LTV there.
20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- ▶ 5:22 Jeremy Levine You know, even in my generation, folks like Peter Fenton at Benchmark or, or Bill Gurley at Benchmark, to name a few people without trying to highlight my colleagues at Bessemer, um, they don't have operational experience. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Now, for the show today, and if you haven't heard Monday's episode with Peter Fenton at Benchmark, please check that out, as in the episode, we discuss an individual called Elad Gill and his fantastic piece on the end of cycles.
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Peter is general partner at Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02 Harry Stebbings But it's now time for the big honor to hand over to Peter Fenton, general partner at Benchmark.
- ▶ 5:53 Peter Fenton Anyway, that, that's the brief history, and I've been doing the job since I was 26 when I got, I was hired by Excel Partners, and, uh, spent seven years there before coming to Benchmark, where I've been for the last 10 years.
- ▶ 15:17 Peter Fenton It's really defined by did we get involved, and this is the way Benchmark practices the business, but did we get involved with the three to five companies for that decade that really matter, and so much of what we do is to earn the right…
20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
- ▶ 12:30 Harry Stebbings Does that take into account that, as Hunter Walt recently said on the show, the truly great deals come from dark deal flow, the likes of Scott Belsky, uh, previously at Benchmark, who founded his startup that was internally funded within… 2 times in the scene
20VC: How LPs Can Add Strategic Value To Portfolio Companies & Why Real Estate Is On Every Whiteboard In Silicon Valley with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder @ Fifth Wall
- ▶ 14:46 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, how do you think the generalist VCs of the world in Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed will respond to such verticalization and strategic value add that you have? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Explosion of First Time Funds, Only 1 Mega Fund Raised: What The Heck Happened in Q1 Venture Markets with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 24:23 Harry Stebbings I joined Mitch Lasky at Benchmarks of the World in being very anti-VR.
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Now, Spencer is the founder and CEO at Cockroach Labs, the open source database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters, and they have backing from some of the greatest of the world of VC, having raised from the…
- ▶ 5:46 Harry Stebbings And speaking of the uptake in venture capital, you've gone on to raise from incredible investors like Index and Benchmark, and so as a newly minted investor myself, I want to start today with the VC founder relations element.
- ▶ 12:15 Spencer Kimball And, you know, there's, there's no more opposite approach in the industry than the one that Benchmark takes, for example. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:13 Spencer Kimball Investor from Benchmark and led our first round, and he's on our board.
20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings He's now a venture partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, and as an early stage investor himself, he's made investments in the likes of Uber, Warby Parker, Pinterest, and Flexport, just to name a few…
- ▶ 2:02 Harry Stebbings However, enough from me, so I'm now delighted to hand over to Scott Belsky, venture partner at Benchmark.
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get started today by discussing a little bit about you and how you made your way into the role of venture partner at Benchmark. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:15 Harry Stebbings In terms of another shift, though, that you mentioned there, and it was where you mentioned your angel investing and then the transition to benchmark. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:26 Harry Stebbings What are the, what are the metrics or what are the kind of thoughts then that go into momentum that has the potential to fade out and become mortal compared to momentum that has the potential to turn into, let's say, a benchmark…
- ▶ 14:36 Harry Stebbings So when you study it then with both an investor hat on with benchmark and then an entrepreneur hat on, what gives you hope then when you, when you study it for the future and what elements concern you potentially?
- ▶ 25:17 Harry Stebbings And then what's the biggest challenge of working at Benchmark for you? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Scott at Benchmark for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Ben.
20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 24:58 Jules Maltz I went to Stanford Business School, and I really enjoyed classes from Andy Ratcliffe there, who was a partner at Benchmark.
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 16:55 unnamed speaker Like if you look at Peter Fenton's had a tremendously successful career benchmark without sort of being, being an operator himself and founders that have worked with him will say he has deep empathy for the, for the process and the…