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Stebbings: Builder.ai shut down after generating $45M vs $200M projected
“Builder.ai, which raised five hundred million, I think it was, across rounds, shuts down false projections. I read about they were projecting 200 and they actually got forty-five million in revenue.”
Harry Stebbings May 29, 2025 ▶ 0:47 OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Deven Parekh: SaaS revenue growth correlation to valuation dropped from 72% to mid-30s
“If you go back to 2020, the correlation to revenue multiple in the public markets was something like 72% was correlated to revenue growth. Today, it's in the mid-thirties.”
Deven Parekh Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 21:29 Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Grinda: Insight Partners Will Not Disrupt Series A and B Venture Markets
“I don't think they're going to screw up the A and B market and asset class because they're going to play. It's not going to be the bread and butter.”
Fabrice Grinda May 9, 2022 ▶ 25:03 20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
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Lieberman: Insight Partners analysts have full control over senior partners' calendars
“When an analyst joins Insight, they basically have full cart, blanche control of senior partners' calendars, and what I mean by that is if an analyst walks into my office and says, Jeff, I got this really cool company. I want you to talk to them tomorrow. I ta…”
Jeff Lieberman Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 20:49 20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
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Insight Partners acquires 70-80% of unprofitable venture companies using zero leverage
“We also do control deals where we're buying control of companies that you would define as a venture company, where a set of existing investors For whatever set of reasons, wants to get liquidity. And we're excited about the growth profile of the company. They …”
Deven Parekh May 17, 2021 ▶ 17:29 20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
Assertion Supported
Jerry Murdock: Twitter had 30 employees and zero revenue when Insight invested
“When I invested in Twitter in 2009 there was 30 something people, no revenue.”
Jerry Murdock Feb 28, 2026 ▶ 49:40 The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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O'Driscoll: Insight's $100M loss on Builder.ai is 1% of its fund
“From insights perspective, a hundred million dollars in a, I think the last one is twelve billion. It's approximately one percent of the fund.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 29, 2025 ▶ 1:40 OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Insight Partners operates without minimum ownership targets for its investments
“We don't have, like, a minimum threshold. We don't have a minimum percentage we have to own. You know, we have companies where we own as little as three, four percent, and we have companies where we own north of 90%.”
Deven Parekh May 17, 2021 ▶ 17:17 20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Insight Partners owned 43% of Monday.com at its IPO
“They own inside on 43% of Monday when it IPO.”
Jason Lemkin May 29, 2025 ▶ 6:26 OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Insight Partners raised a $20 billion fund in early 2022
“Their most recent fund, announced earlier this year, was a whopping twenty billion dollars”
Harry Stebbings Mar 28, 2022 ▶ 0:08 20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
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Insight Partners manages over $30B and 400 portfolio companies
“In the hot seat, one of the biggest capital deployers in the market with over thirty billion in capital commitments and over 400 portfolio companies.”
Harry Stebbings May 17, 2021 ▶ 0:04 20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
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