Insight

“Today, Insight has 30 people on their junior team.”

“To date, the company's raised over a hundred and forty three million dollars in financing from some of the best, including Lightspeed, Insight, TPG, and then some very cool names, including Ashton Kutcher, Harry Styles, Brad Feld, and Jason Calicanis.”

“The smartest person about cryptocurrency at Insight, 25. And if I want to learn about it, I have to go back to first principles and learn it As if I'm 25, too.”

“Prior to that, Gainsight raised over one hundred and fifty six million from some of the best, including Lightspeed, Battery, Bessemer, Insight, and Bain, to name a few.”

“And maybe what that speaks to, Harry, is a further rise of firms like Vista and Insight. So you have tech PE start to step into the shoes of M&A. The issue there, though, is they don't pay as much. Somebody like Vista, you know, they have accumulated a bunch o…”

“Honestly, that's what Insight's done. That's what NEA's done.”

“And all that Insight was doing was replicating what Summit and TA did, which was hire 22 to 24 year old knuckleheads, which my now partner Brian and I were, and pound the phones calling companies all day long.”

“You know, huge credit to someone like Insight, who were putting out a lot of money, but managed to survive because of Savvy, right?”

“I don't think that the DNA of KKR and of other later stage firms. It extends to what Insight does or what growth funds do. It will never extend to venture because it's a different skill set. It's a very different skill set.”

“One thing that Jeff Horing from Insight always says is the, you know, the best round is the double down round. And so by getting access to that company at a certain stage, if I think it has a shot at being a hundred billion dollar company, that round may not a…”

“In the early days of Insight, the big mistake, we hired some famous guy to start Insight Europe. And after six months, we shut it down.”