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Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 48:21 David Rosenthal For that sin, but man, this was a rocky birth of benchmark fund one.
- ▶ 49:01 David Rosenthal They actually hand a copy of the book to every LP as they're pitching them going around for fund one, which is really funny because a, I think they did believe in the values espoused there in, but it's also brilliant marketing.
- ▶ 1:23:26 David Rosenthal By the time the lockup expires the next spring in 1989, that stake is worth over four billion dollars on an eighty-five million dollar fund.
- ▶ 1:23:48 Ben Gilbert This alone, 47 X's their fund.
- ▶ 1:24:16 Ben Gilbert Which is an additional 12 x on a fund that would have already, whatever, 47 xed.
- ▶ 1:24:29 David Rosenthal That is real returns to the funds limited partners, to the GPs.
- ▶ 1:24:40 Ben Gilbert I just want to pause real quick and say fund one did go through the dot com run up and burst.
- ▶ 1:24:57 Ben Gilbert So depending on when they got out of certain things, at the point that eboys was published, the mark on this fund was 92 X.
- ▶ 1:25:04 Ben Gilbert But even if it went down, we know it was at least