Frantz: Growth and private equity have become highly commoditized since 2007
Gene Frantz · 20VC: 2 Signs That A Company Is Ready For IPO, Why Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Management Teams Do Not Want To Go Public with Gene Frantz, General Partner @ CapitalG · Apr 26, 2017 · at 12:39
Gene Frantz is General Partner at CapitalG, Alphabet's growth equity fund. He discusses how late-stage investing has changed due to an influx of capital and standard management playbooks.
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“So I would say that investing writ large across growth equity, private equity, has commoditized To a very high degree over the last decade in a way that would not have been the case in the prior 10 years to that.”
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