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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 12:38 Harry Stebbings Your Sequoias, Benchmarks, you name the tier one fundamentals.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 4:17 John Vrionis And Andy Ratcliffe, who was the benchmark founder, one of the four, you know, he had just retired in
- ▶ 17:07 Harry Stebbings I guess I'm asking here, and it's not disagreement, but I'm asking, if we look at the data, the best performing funds to date, you know, your Sequoias, your benchmarks, your founders funds of the world, they've been generalist funds. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 21:01 Ash Fontana Yeah, I go back to something a partner at Benchmark said once, which is what can go right, and that is what is a company doing differently that could be valuable to a lot of people, and I start actually from bottom up, so I don't do these…
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 11:59 unnamed speaker Entrepreneur, you could pick even large firms that come at the world more like a craftsman, like a benchmark capital, and I know you've had some of their partners on, or you could come at the world with much more of a structured approach… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:39 unnamed speaker You know, I've been on board with Mitch Lasky from Benchmark.
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
- ▶ 22:44 Harry Stebbings What have been some of your learnings on building ownership over time, or actually whether you've got to put in the bigger check at the beginning, because if they hit Sequoia benchmark founders fund come in pretty fast.
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 16:35 Harry Stebbings I'm, uh, I had Sarah Tavel from Benchmark on the show before, and she said that she loves kind of small insertion points into massive markets like consumer banking or business banking.
20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
- ▶ 24:16 Alex MacCaw Egotistically, I feel like I don't want this kind of candidness about whether benchmarks are
20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership
- ▶ 14:10 Harry Stebbings And I'm always quite skeptical, and I always think it's actually incredibly challenging to build ownership with the likes of Sequoia Benchmark coming in hard and kind of taking the treasures into the trees, so to speak.
20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Since our last episode, he's also joined Benchmark and is making his mark there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Harry Stebbings But it's now time to dive into the show, and so I couldn't be more excited to welcome back Chathan Putagunter, General Partner at Benchmark.
- ▶ 3:56 Harry Stebbings In the form of benchmark. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:50 Harry Stebbings In terms of where you're spending your time, Chathan, you're spending a lot of time in Europe, and I would love to say it's just because of my charm and charisma, but two deals in 12 months for Benchmark. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:40 Harry Stebbings What makes Benchmore so special, do you think? 4 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Now, Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings However, I'm too excited not to dive into this one, and so without further ado, I'm thrilled to hand over to Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:49 Harry Stebbings How do you think about an approach market sizing today when assessing new opportunities that come through benchmark store? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:36 Bill Gurley You know, my firm had this wonderful dinner with Pierre Lamont, who is still practicing venture at the age of 88 years old, famous Sequoia investor, and in the middle of dinner, he said, actually, just in his
- ▶ 17:48 Harry Stebbings And have there been some lessons from the incredible decade that you've had at benchmark? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:57 Harry Stebbings So I was very interested by that, but how do you think about the partners you look to add to benchmarking and really what you look for in them?
- ▶ 28:06 unnamed speaker I hope this one's not too personal, but, you know, you've achieved all that one could want to achieve in venture when you look at the career and the decade at benchmark. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 34:39 Harry Stebbings As always, I cannot thank you enough for the support, and I've got one of my favorite episodes ever to come on Monday with the one and only Bill Gurley general partner and benchmark.
20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- ▶ 8:01 Jonathan Hsu You know, if you talk about these great old firms, you know, you talk about benchmark, you think, talk about Sequoia.
20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
- ▶ 7:16 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton said to me on the show from Benchmark, Harry, no good deal ever in hindsight looks expensive.
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 4:28 Alex Clayton They had early investors like Bessemer and Benchmark.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 31:40 Rahul Vohra They are LPs in NEA, Mayfield, USVP, Benchmark, and so on.
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Anthony's raised over thirty eight million dollars in funding for Ubiquity Six from some of the very best in the business, including Finn at First Round, Mike Volpe at Index, and Mitch at Benchmark.
- ▶ 12:48 Anjney Midha I think someone like Benchmark has great focus as well.
- ▶ 16:37 Harry Stebbings You mentioned them in the form of benchmark index in first round. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- ▶ 11:21 Assaf Wand Usually, if there is a partner from a top fund, there is a tendency to give overweight to his idea and decision point, where it's not substantiated by the merit of his idea, but just rather from the fact that he came from Sequoia, he came…
20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- ▶ 11:34 Harry Stebbings Immediately makes me think, I spoke to Peter Fenton the other day at Benchmark, and he said he always laughs when he hears investors say they look for big markets.
- ▶ 18:58 Fred Destin And then, you know, the boutiques continue to operate well, so you'll see USV and Foundry and Benchmark continue to operate extremely well.
- ▶ 23:34 Harry Stebbings Peter Fenton at Benchmark said on the show, never turn down a deal based on valuation, it's a mental trap. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Alongside his role at Adobe, Scott is also a venture partner at one of the world's leading venture firms, Benchmark, and Scott also actively advises and invests in startups personally, having one of the most incredible angel portfolios,…
- ▶ 3:45 Harry Stebbings How did you make your way into the world of startups and investing and come to have the dual head of CPO at Adobe and venture partner at Benchmark? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:40 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest learning from working with the benchmark team? 2 times in the scene