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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:14 Barry McCarthy Was a founding partner at Benchmark and is on the faculty at Sanford B School and was the founder and chairman of Wealthfront.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:43 Harry Stebbings It makes you feel a certain way, and you either opt in or opt out, and that is your USV, it's your benchmark, it's even your ribbit in terms of the specificity of the product.
Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:11 Harry Stebbings Portfolio sizing in particular, and doing the hundred companies in a portfolio, and it doesn't matter as long as you're in that one, versus the Bill Gurley and the benchmark, very concentrated, 15 to 20 picking, and the art of picking. 2 times in the scene
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:01 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I was listening to a podcast the other night about Benchmark's journey, and they were talking about actually a really challenged time for Benchmark, and I can't remember when it was exactly. 2 times in the scene
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:57 Emil Michael Um, I was taken out with Travis because benchmark capital lost their nerve.
- ▶ 42:01 Emil Michael I mean, Benford's a sophisticated organization. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:13 Harry Stebbings Moving on from the benchmark side, Dara today, what do you honestly think of Dara's management?
- ▶ 59:40 Emil Michael Well, they're going to build all these other things, and I think they have to, and that's why I think Benchmark ultimately is going to, is, has no innovation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:46 Emil Michael You know, I, I wished one of the things that, you know, besides like wish we'd never had benchmark as an investor at Uber, I wished that one of the things that happened with these hyper growth companies is we should have turned the corner…
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:56 Harry Stebbings Um, benchmark in particular are phenomenal.
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:33 Kevin Weil And Steve Jobs has done amazing things and you can't, you know, and, um, in the same way you can look at like what Ron Conway has done and what Benchmark has done.
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:26 Harry Stebbings You founded Highlight, you sold it to Pinterest, you then worked at Benchmark, you had the experience in the network to hire those people, and you had the pedigree. 2 times in the scene
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:20 unnamed speaker We raised our, our first round from, from Benchmark Capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Benchmark there though, such an iconic and institutional firm. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:19 Harry Stebbings Um, I do want to ask, uh, I spoke to Andy Ratcliffe before this, um, obviously a benchmark 2 times in the scene
Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:32 Will Quist Absolutely what Sequoia and Benchmark implicitly or explicitly are asking themselves as they wade into how can I price this and do I do this?
- ▶ 1:01:35 Will Quist Um, but they're kind of an unprecedented institution in general.
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:00 Harry Stebbings I can't remember what it's called the benchmark company.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:44 Harry Stebbings I think you could say benchmark.
- ▶ 44:20 Logan Bartlett The one that I've internalized the most from, uh, and that I just have infinite amounts of respect for is Eric Vishria from, from Benchmark.
- ▶ 57:48 Logan Bartlett Uh, the seed slash series A was done by Eric Vichria from Benchmark.
20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
- ▶ 4:48 Harry Stebbings Now we're going to move to a very special episode with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and Michael Eisenberg at a left. 2 times in the scene
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:34 Harry Stebbings When we spoke about kind of the venture partnerships, I also thought of immediately Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Cambly CEO Sameer Shariff: Why I Raised $60M and Didn't Touch a Dollar | 20VC #914 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:16 Harry Stebbings Bluntly, you've got now Basma who did the A, Benchmark who did the B, Jeremy and Sarah.
20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings But that is enough from me, so now I'm delighted to kick off today with the one and only Bill Gurley at Benchmark.
- ▶ 16:52 Michael Eisenberg The second part of this is it informs our investment strategy in general at Olive, which is a lot along the lines of benchmark, which is we like to work with partners.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:19 Keith Rabois And then if I was a Series A investor, like let's say Benchmark, a very typical Series A only fund, they need to know who's going to fund the company next and what price they're willing to pay.
- ▶ 16:37 Harry Stebbings I was chatting to Gurley the other day about benchmark sets.
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:46 Sahil Bloom Yeah, I think what you're seeing is a barbell that is form, formed or forming within the VC landscape, and on one end, you have the Sequoias, Benchmarks, Andreessen's, you know, they're like,
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 23:09 Geoff Lewis I don't think Benchmark's playing the game on the field either, so I think maybe it's something people say, but the smartest people don't actually do it.
20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- ▶ 12:43 Harry Stebbings I do want to touch on one before that you said about the transaction volumes, and you know, I see so many founders chasing GMB today, and Bill Gurley from Benchmark said on the show, you know, not all GMB is equal.