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Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 3:39 Jason Lemkin No PE firm, no Tomo Bravo, no Vista.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 1:01:42 Rory O'Driscoll In fact, I think even going back as far as 2002, 2000, I mean, the early Vista funds were just after the dot com crash, and those guys hoovered up and made a fortune.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:05 Rory O'Driscoll In other words, you can play the Vista moves from 20, 21.
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:07 unnamed speaker It's very like, a little ironic, like the Vista playbook in Enterprise, and then they raise prices massively. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:07 Jason Lemkin Vista apparently lost two billion, but it was very levered, right?
- ▶ 57:28 Jason Lemkin Tomo Bravo decides these are all AI-enhanced winners it wants to buy in Vista, which could happen.
- ▶ 1:00:49 Harry Stebbings You can go from Francisco to Vista to EQT, everyone's got theirs. 2 times in the scene
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:07 Miles Clements I think it's probably a good time to be in the Toma Bravo Vista Blackstone KKR business.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:20 unnamed speaker If Insight can do that, and Vista can do that, why can't Andreessen see every single, like, because they, they shouldn't, they have relationships with every seed manager that matters.
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:52 Everett Randle If you just think about the P and L of a SAS company, you know, Robert Smith, the, the CEO of the first firm that I ever worked at, Vista Equity Partners, always used to say, probably still says, uh, SAS is great because it tastes like… 3 times in the scene
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:25 Jason Calacanis Vista, Bond, Founders Fund, Kleiner, Benchmark.
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:14 Jason Lemkin Uh, it's just combining a series of, of, of, of some properties that Vista has under-invested in, right, with another one that has scale but isn't growing, right?
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:39 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, I think that, you know, I took a look at it, and, you know, Couchbase was bought by Haleli, I think it's the firm in Austin, which is the former co-founder of Vista, Brian Sheet, who is, you know, extraordinarily good investor at… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 54:49 Jason Lemkin I know Vista and Tomo Bravo have raised new funds.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:04 Mitchell Green And that was just as like the Vistas, Tomas, uh, and Franciscos were like just starting to start.
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:48 Elias Torres It's, um, you know, my last company, Drift, before we sold to, uh, to, to Vista, private equity, right, it was 800 people.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:51 Harry Stebbings Plural site obviously happened last week, which Vista wrote down from three and a half billion to zero because, you know, the cost...
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings So the Pluralsight news was that Vista wrote down their three and a half billion dollar buyout of Pluralsight last week to zero. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:25 Jason Lemkin The last Vista one was twenty billion.
- ▶ 17:53 Jason Lemkin When, when Vista bought pipe drive, I wasn't there, but a lot of discussion was how unusual it was because it was a high churn, very small business. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:47 Jason Lemkin To Vista. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:59 Jason Lemkin It just got bought out by Vista, our friends at Vista again, for 1.25 billion. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:56 Jason Lemkin At least Insight's gotta sell to Vista, or someone's gotta sell to somebody.
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:10 Jason Lemkin Because, I didn't get this, but the last big exit I had was Sales Loft, which sold for two and a half billion to Vista on December, 31st, twenty-twenty-one.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:52 Jason Lemkin They sold for 1.5 billion cash to Vista, uh, last year.
- ▶ 14:13 Jason Lemkin I invested in sales loft, which exited for two and a half billion, uh, last year to Vista as well.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:47 Logan Bartlett And, uh, I worked alongside, um, the, the Vista equities of the world and the TA associates, the JMIs, uh, and actually got some exposure to folks like battery, Excel, Bessemer, uh, red point.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 37:18 Jason Lemkin Vista bought them for 1.5 billion, and I had to be tortured to go to those board meetings.
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 30:41 Roger Ehrenberg And maybe what that speaks to, Harry, is a further rise of firms like Vista and Insight. 2 times in the scene
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Last year, as a result of their incredible success, Gainsight was acquired by Vista for a reported 1.1 billion dollars.
- ▶ 32:12 Nick Mehta And so what I feel, Harry, is like, when those things happen, like when we announced our big, you know, financial transaction with Vista Equity Partners, that felt awesome for like a day.
20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- ▶ 8:41 Harry Stebbings I always think back to Robert Smith from Vista Equity, who said about software contracts being the highest quality of revenue and contract.
20VC: Are VCs Still "Open For Business", How VCs Attitude To Risk Has Changed & The 2 Most Valuable Assets To Founders Today with Fred Destin, Founding Partner @ Stride VC
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Prior to Excel, he was a partner at Atlas Venture, now Accomplice, where he invested in and served on the board of PillPack, Zoopla, which IPO'd, Secret Escapes, Integral Ad Science, which had a partial exit to Vista for eight hundred and…
20VC: Raising A $1.35Bn Fund I, The Emerging Secondary Opportunity For Early Stage Managers and Founders & What It Takes To Win The Best Growth Deals Today with Ravi Viswanathan, Founder & Managing Partner @ NewView Capital
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings 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, Acquia sold to Vista Equity for one…
- ▶ 20:15 Ravi Viswanathan You see a lot of these firms, whether it's Vista or Toma Bravo or Insight.