Accel, every mention
14 scenes (2022) · ← back to Accel
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every year 2022 anyone David Rosenthal 12Ben Gilbert 10Peter Fenton 2Jason Calacanis 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Accel comes up
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:32:37 Peter Fenton I think I sent, like, typically I sent him a note saying, hey, I'm working at Excel just to see if I could catch his interest, and he said, good luck.
- ▶ 1:33:33 Peter Fenton around the time he presented Facebook to us at Excel, he knew immediately that he was going to be in the venture business.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:56:44 Ben Gilbert but yeah, maybe founders fund, maybe, I mean, Excel, I don't know, depending on.
- ▶ 1:56:50 Jason Calacanis Excel would be in the running, for sure.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:25:54 David Rosenthal You know, Excel ends up doing it, and Excel is a great firm, and Jim Breyer does it, you know, like, not to take anything away from them, but like, absolutely, Benchmark should have been and was in the conversation.
- ▶ 2:28:06 David Rosenthal So finally, after all this, and I don't know if this was before or after Excel doing Facebook, but right around the same time, legend has it at one of the Menlo Park Monday partners meetings, I think it was Kevin Harvey who finally kind of…
- ▶ 2:34:17 Ben Gilbert And Peter joins from Excel.
- ▶ 2:34:19 David Rosenthal And Peter joins from Excel, which had just done Facebook.
- ▶ 2:35:17 David Rosenthal But he fits the bill, you know, just like Bill, when Bill joined, he was early thirties, he had an established track record, he was young, he was hungry, he was up and coming, he was a baby GP in Excel,
- ▶ 2:36:05 David Rosenthal At Excel, and he's clearly out there hustling.
- ▶ 2:36:51 David Rosenthal There's a massive question for Peter on the Excel side.
- ▶ 2:36:57 David Rosenthal Even, well, let's take off the table whether Excel made a counter offer for him to be a grown-up GP or not.
- ▶ 2:47:08 David Rosenthal Yep, because Peter had invested in Lucerne's previous company when he was at Excel.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:12:19 David Rosenthal Feel free to argue with me on this, but you said in fundraising, I'm not competing with Sequoia, I'm not competing with Excel and the like, and you weren't.