Woody Marshall: Different venture capitalists often hold the same startup at different valuations
Woody Marshall · Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Oct 11, 2023 · at 19:01
Woody Marshall, General Partner at TCV, discusses delays in venture capital portfolio write-downs and valuation misalignments among co-investors in the same company.
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“You can have many different investors in the same company, you know, holding, holding a particular security or a particular company at different, different prices.”
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