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Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 28:23 David Rosenthal I never even think about that because obviously Matt Kohler would go on to become a partner partner at Benchmark.
- ▶ 28:29 Ben Gilbert And of course, Matt was an early executive at Facebook.
- ▶ 1:27:27 David Rosenthal In the meeting, Reid brings along a young guy who's working for him at LinkedIn named Matt Kohler, and come help, you know,
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:30 Peter Fenton When I first met Matt in
- ▶ 1:33:39 Peter Fenton It wasn't like, well, one day maybe, no, Matt was going to be a great venture capitalist because the single most important thing we have to do in our job is to partner with, earn the trust and respect, earn the ability to be a partner and…
- ▶ 1:37:15 Eric Vishria You know, Mitch with Snapchat, um, and, and Discord, and Matt having just come off Instagram, um, among others, and
- ▶ 1:40:36 Peter Fenton We got Kohler to join the firm at the, still the beginning quarter of the social and the social over.
- ▶ 1:52:25 Chetan Puttagunta So I think, like, if you look at even when it was, um, Bill, Peter, Mitch, and Matt,
- ▶ 1:52:37 Chetan Puttagunta I mean, Peter was doing consumer and deep developer tech, and, you know, Matt was working with consumer companies, and he was on the board of Duo, which was a security company.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:41:26 David Rosenthal Matt Kohler.
- ▶ 2:41:27 Ben Gilbert Matt Kohler is the single best person at understanding consumer social products and maybe all consumer products and maybe all consumer psychology in the entire world.
- ▶ 2:41:38 David Rosenthal A, he's super smart and understood, but like, he was there.
- ▶ 2:41:51 David Rosenthal Matt had been at LinkedIn and then had been at Facebook.
- ▶ 2:41:55 David Rosenthal Like, he knew the future.
- ▶ 2:42:01 David Rosenthal And he also got all of these new folks and Bill got what AWS meant for the industry and Series A investing and the difference between formation stage and seed investing and investing in data and traction.
- ▶ 2:42:17 Ben Gilbert Matt is the person who we have referred to on previous episodes when, uh, Kevin Sinstrom was negotiating
- ▶ 2:42:44 Ben Gilbert And Matt Kohler, of course, is that confidant.
- ▶ 2:42:47 David Rosenthal And he also has one of my very favorite lines that I
- ▶ 2:42:51 David Rosenthal Before doing this episode had assumed was a truism of venture all along, but I now realize what's a specific moment in time truism that something had changed, which is, he says, you know, our job as venture capitalists is not to see the…
- ▶ 2:43:38 Ben Gilbert It is awesome watching 10 and 15 year old videos of Matt on stage at conferences talking and just basically being 10 years writer than everyone else.
- ▶ 2:43:49 Ben Gilbert He has a quote.
- ▶ 2:43:50 Ben Gilbert I think he's on stage at a TechCrunch Disrupt with maybe Mike Arrington in 2011 ish, and he's like, I don't think anybody understands mobile advertising.
- ▶ 2:44:14 Ben Gilbert And of course, mobile advertising would go on to become an enormous market, and he was very right about that.
- ▶ 2:44:19 Ben Gilbert I've never met Matt, but in the countless hours of him speaking at various things that I sort of watch, he just has the demeanor of a Beatle.
- ▶ 2:44:36 Ben Gilbert Wait, Matt didn't have a background in venture.
- ▶ 2:44:38 Ben Gilbert Do you know if he was like a big angel investor?
- ▶ 2:44:41 David Rosenthal I believe he had always wanted to get into venture, but you know, and Mitch didn't have a background in venture either.
- ▶ 2:44:59 David Rosenthal They were making more riskier bets on both Mitch and Matt, both of which paid off hugely for the partnership.
- ▶ 2:45:07 David Rosenthal The other thing that Matt identified, I think long before much of the rest of the investing world and world at large was the dynamics behind Uber.
- ▶ 2:45:21 David Rosenthal But Matt had this saying back then that it was partly, you know, informed by his experience with Uber.
- ▶ 2:45:38 David Rosenthal But like, my God, was he right?
- ▶ 2:45:45 Ben Gilbert You have Peter Fenton, you have Mitch Lasky, and you have Matt Kohler.
- ▶ 2:46:10 David Rosenthal That's like Matt's third or fourth investment, which
- ▶ 2:46:55 David Rosenthal Asana, which was actually Matt's first investment, which was former folks from Facebook.
- ▶ 3:10:14 David Rosenthal Matt and Mitch step back at that point.
- ▶ 3:26:25 Ben Gilbert And, uh, then Matt Kohler joins the firm and says, Hey, I think we really need to update our website.
- ▶ 3:26:35 David Rosenthal It was the, the other existing partners when he joined were like, you're the new guy, your initiation ritual, you're coming from Facebook.
- ▶ 3:26:44 Ben Gilbert Oh, I actually don't know which direction it was, but anyway, I think he worked on it a little bit.
- ▶ 3:26:48 Ben Gilbert He sort of came up with some ideas that he, you know, needed to make it more web two point OE more interactive, incorporate live.
- ▶ 3:27:24 Ben Gilbert I think what really happened, or at least what also happened, is Matt was showing it to the rest of the partnership in these early revisions and got a whole lot of feedback and a whole lot of opinions.