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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 4:30:50 David Rosenthal To our friends Ravi Nandan at A-Twenty-Four, Chase Carey at Liberty Media and Fox, and to Mitch Lasky at Benchmark.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:29:34 David Rosenthal To Mitch Lasky, our friend Mitch Lasky, former partner at Benchmark, who helped me think through a whole bunch of the flywheel dynamics.
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:59:18 David Rosenthal So like the best investors in private markets think like Sequoia, Benchmark, et cetera, in the venture world, at least like, why would they ever give up their fees?
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:41 Ben Gilbert The story is one of incredible cooperation, of belief in growing the pie over a century, and just like our benchmark episode, of communist capitalism at its finest.