Ryan Sarver, partner at Redpoint Ventures, describes the history of Redpoint's Entrepreneur-in-Residence program and how major tech platforms originated there.
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“Famously, we had Andy Rubin as a IR here, and he actually founded Android out of our Menlo Park offices, and eventually helped them sell that into Google.”
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Redpoint's late-stage fund rarely follows on in early-stage deals
“Red point strategy is to look at it almost as two totally from portfolios. And very, very rarely, I think there's probably, you know, one exception does our late stage fund invest from our early stage fund?”
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