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Zeev: Apax Partners kept unwanted partners due to LP concerns
“There were cases that That most of us really wanted to get rid of someone, and we didn't, because we were afraid of, and I'm talking about my Apex days, because we were afraid because we were concerned about the you know, the LP response.”
Apax Partners rejected Zeev's early pitch to invest in Facebook
“I, now, now I do have misses from the Apex days where I saw something that I wanted to do, but I knew that there was no way I could get it approved, including Facebook, by the way, in the very early days, you know, I saw it, I could have done it. I brought it …”
Apax rejected Zeev's attempt to take Audible private before Amazon sale
“I try to convince the partnership to buy, I made the investment in Audible was my first big home run, and then it went public, and it was a good, a great, we sold not all the shares, but enough to make it the home run and then the stock price dipped, and it wa…”
Reses pulled Apax credit lines from her hospital bed during 2008 crisis
“I recall 2008 My third child was born October second, 2008. And there was a bank that was failing in Europe. And I remember I was the only partner. This was at apex partners. I was the only partner in the United States that could actually pull credit lines in …”
Zeev: Taking Audible private would have been Apax's biggest win ever
“This would have been by far the biggest win of Apex ever.”
Zeev: Every VC investment he made in 1999 failed despite peak activity
“Scrap the almost everything I did in 1999 was crap. And by the way, I was more active in 1999 than any other year in terms of number of investments.”
Kanji: UK venture pioneers Apax and 3i abandoned early-stage investing
“Apex became much more of a private equity firm than it became a venture firm. And three I became much more of a growth equity firm.”
Zeev: The entire Israeli venture industry was just 10 people in 1994
“It was 1994, and the whole venture industry literally started overnight, and the whole industry was 10 people, and I was lucky enough to be hired by, ah, to be hired by, ah, Apex, who wanted to open operations in Israel, one of two people.”