Peter Fenton
General Partner, Benchmark · 2 appearances on the record.
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Peter Fenton is an early-stage venture capitalist and the longest-serving active partner at Benchmark. He has led investments in technology and open-source companies including Twitter, Yelp, Docker, Elastic, New Relic, Zuora, and Sierra.
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No argument clarity score for Peter Fenton: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 25 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.
Measured by listening to 11,723 words across 2 episodes, but every recording we have of Peter Fenton is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →
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Across 2 rated episodes:
host pushback ▾ 1.5/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2.5/10
setup questions received 78%
host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 15:32“Would you agree with Bill there? And you know, bluntly, I'm very nervous about it. Would you agree with Peter and me in terms of the concern and the nerves around the oversupply?” ▶ 13:28“How do you think about the dangers of market timing risk, even when you have that kind of transformational product experience for the consumer?” ▶ 28:08“When you think about your own self vulnerability and attitude towards it, what are you vulnerable around yourself?” ▶ 14:08“I do have to touch on this and price sensitivity is, surely some rigidity has to be applied to ensure fund returning economics.” ▶ 10:37“How do you look to balance that wonderful optimism with an element of, of caution and critical analysis?”
when Peter pushed back ▶ 15:40“No, I don't have that same fear. I personally think that oversupply of capital is historically a good thing for innovation insofar as it creates higher degrees of entropy.” ▶ 2:57“Yeah, it is embarrassing in a way because I don't dislike golf, but I'm no good at it, and it's exceedingly unlikely you'll ever find me on a golf course. So the fact that that isn…” ▶ 27:16“I'm going to deflect the question because I think that the most interesting area for intellectual enrichment today is not books, although there are great books, but rather podcasts…”
Everything Peter Fenton said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Fenton: Capital Oversupply Is Good for Innovation Because It Increases Entropy
“I personally think that oversupply of capital is historically a good thing for innovation insofar as it creates higher degrees of entropy.”
Fenton: Early-stage VC returns are never determined by entry valuations
“I've never seen ever seen a venture investment from the early stage standpoint become bad because of valuations in the flip side. I've never seen one become great because of valuations going in.”
Fenton: 2021 Venture Capital Is Overfunding Non-Existent Market Preconditions
“One of the bigger risks that's going on in 2021 is there's a lot of invested capital is going in to market preconditions that either don't exist or are still too early to support the economic development of the businesses.”
Fenton: Initial valuation does not matter if an early-stage startup succeeds
“If you zoom out, Harry, big picture, if the company works, if it really works, it doesn't matter.”
Fenton: Board Members Who Focus on Giving Answers Shouldn't Serve
“If you think your role is to provide the answers, then I think you probably shouldn't be in the boardroom.”
Fenton: Benchmark Won't Exist in 50 to 75 Years
“Benchmark won't be around in 50 to 75 years, nor will most of the companies we work with”
Fenton: Free and open consumer distribution channels evaporated by 2017
“One of the major oxygen supplies For consumers, especially, is free and open distribution, and I think we could say pretty emphatically that that has evaporated in the last five years”
Fenton: Ownership stake drives early-stage VC returns more than valuation
“The other variable on, you know, this topic specifically that you'll hear people focused on is ownership stake, and I think ultimately that is a bigger determinant of returns than anything related to the valuation going in, and I say it specifically for early …”
Fenton: The most successful startups launch in narrow or invisible markets
“In many ways, by definition, the startup companies that do the best invest and get going in very narrow, almost ill-defined, if not completely invisible markets”
Fenton: Great founders consistently choose reckless decisions over conservative ones
“The best founders make me feel like Number one, I can never control them, and I never want to control them. Number two, that given an opportunity to do the insane, reckless, non-conservative versus the rational, logical, they'll prefer the insane and the reckl…”
Fenton: Corporate Boards Create a Superstructure of Mistrust for Founders
“And a board represents a governance structure. And so there are many people who, like myself, are highly anti-authoritarian. If we see authority, we immediately don't trust it. And so that's one of the challenges, that you create a structure that has the super…”
Fenton: Early Venture Converts Latent Demand Into Kinetic Product Traction
“I think so much of the art of early stage venture is to ask the question of, can you unlock consumption? Can you tap into a latent potential energy of demand that can be made kinetic through a product experience that's radically easier to engage with and more …”
Fenton: Hyper-curiosity and hyper-competitiveness are deficient traits for operating CEOs
“I think those are positive ways of pressing what are arguably are two very deficient traits for a operating CEO focus and, you know, collegiality can be very defining as a great CEO set of character traits.”
Fenton: Direct venture practice is superior to prior operating experience
“There's no substitute for being great in the venture business than practicing it, and if I viewed this as a 20 to 30 year career, the sooner I got started, the better”
Fenton: Zenly's low-battery location tech enables a new social layer
“In the case of Zenly, we had a point of view that, you know, we now have ubiquity of smartphones, and there's a set of enabling features inside of those phones that could really change how we interact with people in the world. And in the case of Zenly, it's th…”
Fenton: Early VCs should refrain from giving founders product strategy
“A bulk of what we try and do at the early or Stages of a company is to not give product strategy, because I think that's something that's really best done by the product authors, but to ensure that the questions are being asked”
Fenton: dotCloud was subscale and unviable due to Amazon competition
“When we were in the business model of dot cloud, that wasn't happening. We were subscale. Amazon was competitive in a way that I think it was clear to some of us that the business was no longer viable.”
Fenton: Docker achieved developer ubiquity within a year of pivoting
“We would have never imagined that in less than a year, you know, Docker would achieve ubiquity, and now it's a, you know, household name for developers”
Fenton: VCs can no longer buy 25% of high-momentum early-stage startups
“I think that the notion that you could buy 25% of a early stage company that has some demonstrable momentum is, is gone.”
Fenton: Board meetings using over 10 PowerPoint slides are tragic and criminal
“It's tragic that most of the board meetings that are practiced in the Silicon Valley involve over 10 PowerPoint slides. I think that's criminal.”
Fenton: Founder Workload Is Unaffected by Investor Base or Board Structure
“Once you start a business and you're working on it, you don't work more or less hard based on the investor base or the governance structure.”
Fenton: Top Talent Seeks Companies Creating Maximum Equity Value
“The best people are going to want to work for a company that's going to create the best equity value.”
Fenton: Over-Invest in Early Vulnerability Because Bad News Drives Learning
“So by over investing at the beginning in vulnerability, allowing for the bad news to carry just as much space for compassion, good feelings, bad feelings, all those things, because bad news typically is a catalyst to learning.”
The other half of the tape: Peter Fenton's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 338 times in 97 episodes on 20VC. 25 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 211Dan Siroker 16Eric Vishria 11Chetan Puttagunta 11Bret Taylor 10Scott Farquhar 9Keith Rabois 8Everett Randle 7
Statements about Peter Fenton, by other people (25)
Green: A Benchmark-backed Silicon Valley version of SafeSend would've fetched $500M
“Had that deal, been backed by Benchmark, like Vishra or Fett, Peter Fett, and one of those guys, backed a Benchmark, doing a minority deal based in Silicon Valley, it would have been five hundred million dollars.”
Siroker: Founders should target VCs on the rising arc of their career
“I think the best investor you can have for your company is somebody who's on the rising arc of their career. You want a Peter Fenton when he's 35, not 45. You want, not, not going to be ageist, but you want somebody before they've had their first IPO, and you …”
Gordon: No successful startup investor completely ignores valuation
“I don't know any successful investor in companies who invest that way.”
Only Peter Fenton and Jim Goetz achieved multi-billion consumer and enterprise wins
“That's a funny statement, because I think in the modern era, if you go back, call it the last 10 or 15 years of venture capitalists, there are only two that I can think of who have had multi-billion dollar consumer outcomes and multi-billion dollar enterprise …”
Kimball: GP advocacy is more valuable than VC platform support teams
“No matter how good the associate or the BV person or the BV team even, you know, in a much bigger VC, those guys are good, and they can do great work, and they can actually probably do more work in terms of volume, but I'd rather have Peter Fenton on the phone…”
Jerry Murdock: Peter Fenton and John Doerr were astounding venture pickers
“Peter Fenton John Doerr early on those guys were astounding at picking deals.”
Peter Fenton: Investment price is the litmus test for conviction
“I remember he told me that price is a litmus test for your conviction.”
Farquhar: Benchmark declined splitting Atlassian's initial round with Accel
“And actually like we went back to Peter Fenton at Benchmark was, I think the runner up bidder. And we went back to Excel and said, Hey, look, all things considered, maybe we should get two VCs or, you know, in there, even though there was a huge difference in …”
Benchmark's Peter Fenton discloses a genuine personal weakness within five minutes
“The master of this is Peter Fenton at Benchmark. He, within five minutes of any conversation, he will tell you a weakness that he has, and it's not, he's not joking about it. He tells you a real weakness, and my God, it makes me love him, but I'm not unique in…”
Successful M&A deals never look expensive in hindsight
“I completely agree with Peter. If you do a good M&A deal, no one's ever looked back and said, how much do we pay? It's just smiles and congratulations.”
New Relic's Lou Cirne prioritized trusted partners over maximizing round valuation
“Lucerne, a new relic is a great example. You know, a multi-billion dollar public software company today But if you ask Lou, he took money from people that he knew and trusted in Peter Fenton and Dan Skolnick, and he did evaluations that worked for him, but als…”
VCs must maintain price discipline in categories with bounded upside
“That said, I think there are other companies that the category or the nature of the competitive set, you have to have some amount of price discipline in order to achieve true good returns. And I think those are in categories that you, there's just simply not a…”
Tony Conrad disagrees with Peter Fenton on founder unease
“No, not at all. In fact you know, that might work for Peter, and I think each investor, as I've learned even within our firm, has a different approach, and it's really important that you empower somebody to kind of adhere to their kind of instincts, if you wan…”
Peter Fenton: Great board members are Socratic and focus on fundamental questions
“I remember he stated to me the importance lying in being Socratic, not didactic, knowing when's the right time to interject, and having 15 questions in your head, but having the ability to narrow them down to the two that are fundamental.”
Peter Fenton Used FOMO's App Throughout Benchmark's Pitch Meeting
“I remember Peter Fenton was actually on his phone most of it. And I was like, kind of bummed out because I was like, damn, he's not interested. He's focusing on other things. He's doing emails. And I remember as soon as we finished the pitch, the first thing h…”
Bret Taylor only pitched Benchmark's Peter Fenton when fundraising for Sierra
“So when we started the company, I just called Peter Fenton, who I've worked with twice before. He's the only person I talked to.”
Tavel: Peter Fenton is the single best VC at developing founders
“I've learned from Peter because his, EQ around people, what motivates us, what drives us what the, what holds people back, and how important that is in the, you know, the arc of any company that we end up investing in, this watching, helping those founders bec…”
Fenton: Accounting startups win just by making the product somewhat enjoyable
“When Uber was going against the taxi industry, the NPS scores on taxis was so bad, right? Like even if Uber was mediocre, it would still be way better. And he said accounting gave him the exact same vibes. Like the status quo is just so bad that if you can mak…”
Weil: Peter Fenton, David Rosenblatt, and Carl Bass are top board members
“I'll give you three, actually. Peter Fenton, David Rosenblatt, and Carl Bass. Peter and David are on our board at Twitter. Carl's on the board at Planet. Because every single one of them, they are available whenever you need them. They're dedicated. They're ju…”
Peter Fenton gave Ben Rubin a Benchmark credit card to explore ideas
“Basically, Peter Fenton was, hire who you need to hire, start hacking around, there is Benchmark credit card, and I trust you, and like, obviously, this sounds a little bit unfair, because it sounds super casual, but we had a plan of This is the space we're go…”
Siroker: Peter Fenton gave direct contact info for 12 portfolio founders
“Peter Fenton, when I asked for references on him at the time, he was this amazing luminary. I asked him for references. He gave me 12 founders and CEOs, their phone number, their email. He didn't even introduce me, just to just reach out. And then I got this g…”
Liu: Peter Fenton excels by combining systems thinking with human empathy
“Yeah, what makes Peter special as a investor, and more importantly, as a thought partner to, I think, the CEOs, the portfolio companies that he gets involved with as a helpful partner, is he's basically, on one hand, very much a systems thinker, right? There a…”
Puttagunta: Peter Fenton conducts pre-board calls with startup executives
“He spends an incredible amount of time ahead of every board meeting, diving deep into the materials, having the conversations with founders and executives about questions that arise. In his mind, as he's reviewing the materials, he comes in with this mode of l…”
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2025 37 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
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- Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 97 mentions in 12 episodes 8 per episode
- Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 21 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Bill Gurley and Michael Eisenberg on The First Signs of an Impending Bust, What Happens with a Market Crash, How Do Public Markets Impact Private Valuations & The Biggest Lessons from 20 Years Investing in Venture
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- 20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
- 20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
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2020 44 mentions in 12 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- 20VC: Matt Mochary, Coach To Silicon Valley's Leading VCs & Founders on How To Deal with Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt, How To Manage Fear and Anger & Why Board Seats Are The Death of Investors
- 20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
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2019 36 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- 20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- 20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
- 20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- 20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
- 20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today
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2018 33 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
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- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- 20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- 20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
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2017 35 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- 20VC: Michael Dearing on 5 Key Principles He Uses To Assess Startup Founders, Why Benevolent Dictatorship Is A Beautiful Thing & Why Markets Are Better Capital Allocators Than CEOs
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- 20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- 20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- 20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
- 20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
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2015 2 mentions in 1 episode
Appearances (2)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage | Mar 29, 2021 | 24m |
| 20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Owner | Jun 19, 2017 | 25m |