eShares

“EShares is one of my portfolio companies. And in fact, it's a company that I co-founded. And in the case of that company I was talking with Henry Ward, who's, who's my co-founder in that company about his previous company that he was working on. And I just rea…”

“And that's been true for us for the beginning is that investor criticism of eShares is there isn't line of sight to a big outcome.”

“There was sort of this kind of, I think pessimism or even a little bit of distrust where this idea seems so obvious to people that because it didn't exist, there must be something wrong with this idea that they didn't know. And so, it actually, you would think…”

“I think when we look 20 years ahead our vision for the world is that the great enduring companies will actually be privately held and they will find liquidity in private markets rather than public markets.”

“We're very much a, let's win in small markets, and then concentrically grow out of that, rather than try to take on a huge market all at once.”

“Manu and I were having lunch one day and he said, you know, I have this problem, this stock certificate problem. I would love for a company to exist to solve it. If you'll start the company, I'll invest in it.”

“It's actually required reading for all the executives here.”

“We changed our best employee vesting schedule from four years to five years”

“Like, I think Henry's cultivated a relationship with his board very well. In part by deputizing his directors to adopt business units inside of the company and engage with these teams running these units regularly.”