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▶ 3:11:33 David Rosenthal The two that jump out to me are, one, just like our NFL episode, just like our benchmark episodes, communist capitalism.
▶ 3:12:12 David Rosenthal Like with benchmark, it's five partners.

▶ 0:04 Ben Gilbert I went for the first time, what, two weeks ago, when I was down for meeting at Benchmark, and the nostalgia in there was just unbelievable.

▶ 39:06 Dara Khosrowshahi Yeah, and also everything going on and what led to it, you know, the, the battle between Travis and Benchmark and all that stuff.
▶ 1:05:41 Dara Khosrowshahi Obviously Benchmark and Travis were in this power struggle, but there, there was this, um,
▶ 1:05:48 Dara Khosrowshahi Heavy feel like when you talk to the benchmark folks, there's this responsibility, which is this, this was one of the hits of the century.
▶ 1:06:03 Dara Khosrowshahi And benchmarks had a lot of good ones, but this, this one was a great one.
▶ 1:06:19 Dara Khosrowshahi So I think that was a very, very heavy weight, uh, on benchmark and, and some of the other startups, et cetera, which led to all events that ultimately led to like they're bringing in an unknown outsider like that.
▶ 1:07:27 Dara Khosrowshahi And, um, the, the issue that we had to deal with was one where Benchmark and Travis and, and the founders, they all had high vote shares.
▶ 1:08:58 Dara Khosrowshahi And in the end, we got everyone, including Travis, Benchmark, everyone agreed to essentially switch over high vote to low vote.
▶ 1:12:02 Ben Gilbert Their Series A was the next year, famously led by Benchmark, where Bill Gurley joined the board at quite the step up in valuation, sixty million dollars, so all those early angels got a ten-x even before Benchmark came in, which was…

▶ 2:05 Ben Gilbert Mitch, of course, was a partner at Benchmark in the Fab Five era that we chronicled on our Benchmark episode.
▶ 2:18 Ben Gilbert So we are joined by Mitch and Blake Robbins, Benchmark's current principal, who has also come up on previous episodes.
▶ 2:47 David Rosenthal Uh, we did it at Benchmark's Woodside office at, it turns out, they have another triangle table.
▶ 2:54 David Rosenthal So we have now recorded acquired episodes at both of the famous Benchmark dinner tables.
▶ 4:16 Mitch Lasky Well, I think after I retired from benchmark a couple of years ago, retired from active investing, obviously the glide path out of venture is kind of a long glide path.
▶ 58:13 David Rosenthal That still must, that must have been relatively early in your career at Benchmark.
▶ 58:18 Mitch Lasky Um, but yeah, it was probably, uh, you know, within, within the first couple of years that I had been, that I was at Benchmark.
▶ 1:00:41 Mitch Lasky However, I would not have done them at benchmark.
▶ 2:00:22 Ben Gilbert Yeah, we're at benchmark, and I can see like, 15 founders lying outside with decks.
▶ 2:14:23 Ben Gilbert We got a lot of feedback on the first benchmark episode that we talked about this cool shape and you couldn't actually see it, so made sure to get that.
▶ 2:14:35 David Rosenthal Also, huge thank you to Mitch, to Blake, and to Benchmark for hosting us and doing this together.

▶ 2:08:51 David Senra No, what you guys said on your benchmark dinner episode, I think was, like, you know, uh, there's a few podcasters, I was having this conversation with Sam yesterday, it's like, there's a few podcasters that, like, they know what they're…
▶ 2:46:09 Ben Gilbert Like if LVMH, Benchmark,

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