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Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:33 Ben Gilbert Series A from a whole bunch of great venture investors at Kleiner, Emergence, Lux, and NVIDIA itself called Together AI.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 3:07 Ben Gilbert Listen to our other episodes on our second show, ACQ-II, like a great episode we just did with Jake Saper from Emergence on
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26 Ben Gilbert The good people at Emergence Capital, in particular, friend of the show Jake Saper, invited David and I to interview two very heavy hitters at their CEO Summit last week, Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom, and Peter Gassner, the…
- ▶ 3:09 Ben Gilbert As you remember from our Zoom episode with board member Santi Subotovsky, also an Emergence Capital partner, Zoom raised thirty million dollars from Emergence and another hundred million dollars from Sequoia afterwards.
- ▶ 4:02 David Rosenthal This will be a great one to discuss in there with the community and other founders, and including Jake Saper himself from Emergence, who's active in the Slack.
- ▶ 7:18 Ben Gilbert So now onto our interview at the Emergent CEO Summit with Eric Yuan and Peter Gassner.
- ▶ 7:46 Peter Gassner Uh, are the simple angel investors when we just started, and then emergence, uh, about 15 months in, so angel investors, I think that was three million, and, uh,
- ▶ 7:57 Peter Gassner Emergence was four million.
- ▶ 7:59 Peter Gassner We never actually used the Emergence four million, but I thought, I thought we might at the time, and we got to him within about a 100,000 of using it, and then, and then we went public.
- ▶ 9:07 Eric Yuan Unfortunately, I do not know my brother sent any emergency capital.
- ▶ 10:48 Ben Gilbert And if, just to make sure I have my facts straight, I believe you raised a thirty million dollar round led by Emergence, and then another hundred million dollar round after that, and similar to Peter, Peter, you did not dip into any of…
- ▶ 11:06 Eric Yuan For me, actually, after the certain meeting, you know, from emerging capital, I think, ah, yeah, we are on the right track.
- ▶ 12:05 Eric Yuan So, yeah, as I mentioned earlier, right, after the research meeting from, uh, emergency capital, as, at that time, seriously, we had a new plan, or so ever, to raise another round of capital.
- ▶ 15:53 Peter Gassner So just like Eric, you know, most VCs, all VCs, except for emergence, all, all VCs of any kind of note, except for emergence, turned us down, right?
- ▶ 31:47 Peter Gassner We met at an emergency event.
- ▶ 1:07:05 David Rosenthal Thank you to Emergence for facilitating this, making it happen.
- ▶ 1:07:08 Eric Yuan Yeah, but thank you Emergence Capital.
- ▶ 1:10:05 David Rosenthal Thanks as well to our friends at emergence for making this possible.
- ▶ 1:10:12 David Rosenthal I'm wearing my emergence capital fleece right now.
- ▶ 1:10:41 David Rosenthal Jake from emergence is right there in slack to talk about this.