Treskow: Accel invested early in Facebook despite an unquantifiable market size
Michael Treskow · 20 VC 073: Life Inside Accel Partners with Michael Treskow @ Accel · Sep 21, 2015 · at 11:01
Michael Treskow of Accel Partners highlights Accel's early-stage investment in Facebook to illustrate how investors must look past existing market sizes for innovative companies.
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“So, so Facebook is, is a great example. You know, when we invested early on, you know, what's, what's the size of Facebook's market, right?”
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