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Chi: Bundling model evaluation with data consulting produces pay-to-win benchmarks
“If you look at auditing as an industry, you end up with issues like Enron, where if you have the same group who's responsible for doing the audit, as well as also consulting and supporting the company, you have a mixed incentive structure, and then it just bec…”
Rampell: Slow corporate decision-making guarantees adverse selection in venture deals
“If you take nine weeks to make a decision and like, you know, we'll decide within a day or Sequoia or Benchmark or some other great venture capital firm, we'll decide within a day, like you're not going to get good deals if you take nine weeks.”
Jordan: Benchmark's Bob Kagle invested in eBay after finding duck decoys
“And it turns out the venture guy who made the investment at eBay was Bob Cagle at Benchmark Capital. Bob, who happened to come from Michigan, and there's a craftsman in Michigan who does really beautiful, and I'll remember the name, decoy ducks for hunting. It…”