TPG

“At TPG, when we would go to investment committee, we always had a red team. It's kind of like goes back to journalism when you had someone who said, if you were to take the exact opposite perspective of the argument that's being made by the investment committe…”

“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.”

“And one of the very first investments we did was an investment into Uber's series D round. When it was valued at, you know, at the time felt like a very rich price of three billion dollars.”

“We then followed that in 2014 with an investment into Airbnb when it was at a ten billion dollar valuation.”

“TPG was our anchor in fund one. Right. So one of our high net worths introduced us to TPG November of, Ninth, November of 18, and we had a bunch of conversations. We were doing this for five, six months back and forth, met probably 45 partners. It was a six-mo…”

“I think TPG on that eighty-three million made close to two billion.”

“Solution was I introduced them to Waverly Loans, and we did the largest Waverly Loan in history, which was eighty-three million and bought Garrett Camp's shares for TPG for that amount.”

“So that Series D, like a year after the Series C, which Google and TPG did, that was at three billion. This was at seventeen billion, and we started off at 10. So, Emil was able to negotiate from, like, 10, eleven billion valuation to 17, because there was so …”