Swartz: Accel's inaugural 1983 fund was the easiest it ever raised
Jim Swartz · 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev · Nov 8, 2021 · at 8:24
Jim Swartz, co-founder of Accel, offering a contrasting view to Arthur Patterson on the difficulty of raising Accel's first fund in 1983.
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“I mean, I think it was the easiest fund we ever raised. We raised it in the 90 days or so, and as Arthur points out, it was a particularly ebullient era.”
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