why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Supported
Siroker: NEA Buys Portfolio Stock at IPO Rather Than Selling
“They're often buyers at the IPO. They're not sellers.”
Assertion Supported
Ehrenberg: Insight Partners and NEA Have Formed Continuation Funds
“Honestly, that's what Insight's done. That's what NEA's done.”
Assertion Partly supported
Robinhood had an 800,000-person waitlist during its closed beta
“We invested and led the series B and they were still in closed beta at the time, but there were some really Interesting signals at the time, right? They had built this amazing waiting list of over 800,000 people that wanted the product.”
Assertion Supported
Sandell: NEA grew flagship fund size from $2.3B to $3.6B in 20 years
“We've been growing actually relatively slowly, Harry, 10 or 15% fund to fund. We started with the first big fund, NEA-TEN, in 2000, a 2.3 billion dollar fund, so we've been growing on a large base since then, and our latest fund is 3.6 1,000,000,020 years late…”
Prediction Held up
Sandell: NEA plans to raise bigger and different kinds of funds
“Well, I think there's certainly an opportunity to raise bigger and maybe different kinds of funds to meet these needs, and that's something we plan to do.”
Assertion Supported
NEA manages $23 billion in assets
“Scott Sandell, managing general partner at NEA, one of the leading firms of the last three decades, with now twenty-three billion dollars under management”
Assertion Supported
Casper Has Raised Over $239M from NEA, IVP, and Leonardo DiCaprio
“And since then, they've raised over two hundred and thirty nine million dollars in funding from the likes of NEA, Lira Hippo, IVP, Norwest Venture Partners, and even include Leonardo DiCaprio on their cap table.”