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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:11 Harry Stebbings There's a brilliant piece by Sarah Tavill at Benchmark, actually, which is, talks about selling the work and not the seats.
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:16 Peter Lacaillade B plus A minus funds that were, you know, been around for 20 years on Sand Hill Road, because I couldn't get into Sequoia, Excel, Greylock, and Benchmark.
- ▶ 27:00 Peter Lacaillade I mean, a lot of the endowments, by the way, are also just like, with the denominator, you're in Sequoia and Benchmark, the numbers became so big.
- ▶ 1:18:39 Peter Lacaillade Probably, probably benchmark. 2 times in the scene
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:29 Harry Stebbings I want to bring in miles Grimshaw at benchmark general partner at benchmark for this one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:58 Harry Stebbings Miles Grimshaw at Benchmark, you were the first in this discussion to bring up co-pilots.
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:10 Jeff Seibert So we're lucky to work with Peter Fenton at benchmark his clairvoyance on like where the large opportunity is and just relentlessly pushing us to find that and adjust like on a dime is super impressive.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:25 Harry Stebbings Um, I had Myles Grimshaw on from Benchmark, and he said, actually,
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:26 Auren Hoffman If you think of benchmark in the nineties, like they had this whole room full of these folks and they would just bring them in to once they, once they invested in the company and those folks would take over a CEO.
- ▶ 13:40 Jason Lemkin Like the CEO that worked at Benchmark, maybe Benchmark's the wrong example, that worked at wherever, didn't perform better than the person that had the Harvard MBA, right?
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:27 Beezer Clarkson Oh, if I could go back in time and be like, you know, one of the first LPs in Benchmark and Sequoia, yeah, 4 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:53 Michael Eisenberg You probably saw Sarah Table, graduate of Harvard, an incredible investor at my former firm Benchmark, just how disgusted she was
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:07 Scott Farquhar We had Peter Fenton over at Benchmark. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:37 Harry Stebbings I've had many guests on the show, including like Mars Grimshaw from benchmark, obviously where Peter Fenton is, who said that per seat pricing would, would not exist in a world of AI.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:07 Harry Stebbings From benchmark very well.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:58 Phin Barnes And if you choose to do it that way, and some people who I respect a tremendous amount of chosen not to do it that way, you know, starting with benchmark and working your way down.
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:14 unnamed speaker But my question is, I get you on the discount, but actually there are some investors, say a Bill Gurley at Benchmark, or, you know, you know, Roloff at Sequoia, who the weight of their name, their contacts, and their B to B customers…
- ▶ 57:00 Harry Stebbings It's very, I had Miles Grimshaw on from Benchmark.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:22 Harry Stebbings But then also appreciating that Benchmark isn't built in a year or six months. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 Harry Stebbings How was the first partnership meeting at Benchmark?
- ▶ 19:57 Miles Grimshaw When we're, when we're our best, every founder who spends time with us, um, should really be able to say they got a lot out of that meeting. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:42 Miles Grimshaw And if you were to sit around our partnership meetings and the like, you really wouldn't hear the word bet come up very much in that regard.
- ▶ 37:45 Harry Stebbings Do you tag teaming up at Benchmark where you say, hey, Chathan, let's get on this together. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Harry Stebbings And when you look at it, and I'm applying it to the benchmark portfolio now, but like a Docker of the world, we're probably not, and I don't know the specific trajectory of the company, but an example for me would be, respectfully,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:42 Harry Stebbings If I'm not, not picking holes by any means, but Benchmark are, like, famed on being the Series A investor. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:39 Miles Grimshaw For, for this new application paradigm, but it's, it's that, you know, we at Benchmark are starting to see, and what we're really excited about is, um, what we were just talking about, this idea of this new architecture, this idea of sell…
- ▶ 1:23:12 Miles Grimshaw Obviously with investment in Langtrain, um, and we have a few others at Benchmark Cerebrus, which is, uh, you know, an AI chip, um, for training and inference.
- ▶ 1:41:05 Harry Stebbings What's been the hardest part of getting used to the benchmark partnership?
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 31:12 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and we have an incredible episode coming with Miles Grimshaw at Benchmark on Monday.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:19 unnamed speaker I think it should be in that pantheon of greatness that sort of Sequoia and Benchmark are typically put in.
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:24 Harry Stebbings I think it would, we're really being off script here, but like, yeah, like your benchmark sequoias of the world and the best funds would bring you in for your distribution reach
Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:02 Jean-Denis Greze Well, it was once upon a time, you could just say benchmark to that. 2 times in the scene
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:16 Harry Stebbings You mentioned, I mentioned Bill Gurley, Benchmark there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:30 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Andrew recently, we mentioned Benchmark.
- ▶ 1:10:13 Sheel Mohnot Um, oh, but I guess like, you know, in the spirit of keeping fund size small, it hard to beat, hard to beat benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:45 Adam Besvinick Benchmark.
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:02 Chris Paik This, E-Boys is like the edutainment chronicling of the foundation, like founding of Benchmark, and even though it was the first time that the concept of an equal partnership, like, wormed its way into my brain, so I think I had, like, an…
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 3:59 Harry Stebbings And Stitch have raised over a hundred million dollars from the likes of Cotu, Thrive, Benchmark, and Index.
- ▶ 53:30 Harry Stebbings And Stitch have raised over a hundred million dollars from the likes of Cotu, Thrive, Benchmark, and Index.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:44 Jeff Jordan And so when Benchmark wrote the joint, Bob Cagle and Benchmark wrote the check, he was investing in a, in a collectibles marketplace. 2 times in the scene
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:42 Jeff Jordan And so when Benchmark wrote the joint, Bob Cagle and Benchmark wrote the check, he was investing in a, in a collectibles marketplace.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:38 Jason Lemkin They all met that bar, right?