NewView Capital
9 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2020 by Ravi Viswanathan · said 15 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Apr 6, 2020 bullish
Viswanathan: NewView Capital invested in Plaid following NEA's early-stage backing
“Yeah, this is an easy one. It's Plaid, which I was part of the team that led the seed and Series A at NEA many, many years ago, so I know Zach has been on your show, and I think the world of him, so one of my top priority after founding NewView is figuring out…”
Apr 6, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 bullish
Viswanathan: NewView Capital requires potential for 10x returns on every growth deal
“The standard that a lot of people throw around is kind of a, let's make sure that the company is in that three to five X range, but every company we invest in, there has to be a thread or something where, you know what, this actually can get outsized returns a…”
Apr 6, 2020 bullish
Viswanathan: NewView buys secondary positions from early seed funds needing liquidity
“We do, because if you think about seed funds, a lot of them, they have amazing returns, but a lot of that is more TVPI, total value, and they may not have gotten a lot of liquidity, because they're in these great companies, and they continue to accrete in valu…”
Apr 6, 2020 positive
Viswanathan: Investors should let tired founders drive company exit decisions
“A lot of it really is in close consultation with the founding team, because you may want to hold, but if the founding team and the management team really are closest to the field, obviously, if they see a market transition or if they are getting tired and they…”
Apr 6, 2020 positive
Viswanathan: NewView and NEA support controlled secondary liquidity for founders
“On the one hand, if they want to sell a small percentage of their stock to get some liquidity, and it's more of a pressure release mechanism for them personally, we actually encourage it. And we've done that in the past, both at Newview as well as at NEA.”
Apr 6, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 positive
NewView Capital's $1.35B debut fund yielded three major exits within two years
“Launched in 2018 with their 1.35 billion dollar debut fund, They've already set themselves as leaders in the world of growth funding, with three massive exits in less than two years, in the form of, check this out, Plaid sold to Visa for 5.3 billion dollars, A…”
Apr 6, 2020
Viswanathan: Don't flood market with capital when competitive intensity is murky
“If you're going up to a big market and you are a leader, then you actually want to lean in more with capital. Whereas if you get a lot more capital, but it's still very murky in terms of the competitive intensity, what you don't want to do is just flood the ma…”