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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.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:35:23 David Rosenthal We did a crossover with Mitch and Blake years ago.
- ▶ 3:35:33 David Rosenthal Gaming, the gaming industry, Mitch and Blake are two of the best in the business.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:16:54 David Senra Blake and Mitch, Blake Robbins and Mitch Lasky made the point in, uh, one of their Gamecraft episodes that I never even thought of.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:29:49 Miles Grimshaw You think Mitch was an exception, Bill, and Mitch had, you know,
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:52:25 Chetan Puttagunta So I think, like, if you look at even when it was, um, Bill, Peter, Mitch, and Matt,
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:54 David Rosenthal Next is Mitch Lasky, who Mitch, I think, is really, like, super under the radar and kind of a unsung part of what comes to be the Fab Four era, and they truly are.
- ▶ 2:39:09 David Rosenthal Mitch had been founder and CEO.
- ▶ 2:39:12 David Rosenthal He had been a games industry guy.
- ▶ 2:39:13 David Rosenthal He worked in the games industry his whole life and then founded and was CEO.
- ▶ 2:39:17 Ben Gilbert He started a game studio?
- ▶ 2:39:23 David Rosenthal Had led the series C in and was on Mitch's board and the super random that Mitch, you know, he was later in his career.
- ▶ 2:39:30 David Rosenthal He'd been a founder.
- ▶ 2:39:32 David Rosenthal Like he didn't like VCs either.
- ▶ 2:39:33 David Rosenthal Like, why would he do this?
- ▶ 2:39:34 David Rosenthal Why would they recruit him?
- ▶ 2:39:54 David Rosenthal So Mitch had actually sort of pervade over one of the bright spots for Benchmark during that era.
- ▶ 2:40:02 David Rosenthal And Mitch, criminally, so few people aren't familiar with him.
- ▶ 2:40:05 David Rosenthal He just went on Patrick's show on Invest Like the Best.
- ▶ 2:40:10 David Rosenthal Like, if you wanna understand Mitch and why he's so special, go listen to that episode.
- ▶ 2:40:18 David Rosenthal Why you would want him in your partnership.
- ▶ 2:40:20 David Rosenthal And I got to work with Mitch on the board of a company called PlayFab that was started by James Quartzman, who's now Andreessen Horowitz's gaming GP.
- ▶ 2:40:31 David Rosenthal But he joins next.
- ▶ 2:40:33 David Rosenthal And Mitch would have some incredible wins in these coming funds, not just in gaming.
- ▶ 2:40:39 David Rosenthal You know, gaming, he would do that game company, which is under the radar, but
- ▶ 2:41:01 David Rosenthal Mitch joins next.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 2:45:45 Ben Gilbert You have Peter Fenton, you have Mitch Lasky, and you have Matt Kohler.
- ▶ 2:49:54 David Rosenthal But that was another great Mitch investment.
- ▶ 2:51:37 Ben Gilbert You had one of the best games investors to ever live investing in games with Mitch Lasky, and these are super clear swim lanes.
- ▶ 2:52:12 David Rosenthal Like Mitch did snap, you know, but the point is, it doesn't matter.
- ▶ 3:10:14 David Rosenthal Matt and Mitch step back at that point.
- ▶ 3:46:55 David Rosenthal My related to the episode carve out, I already mentioned it earlier, but go listen to Mitch on, um,
- ▶ 3:47:03 David Rosenthal He's just so, so entertaining.
- ▶ 3:47:05 David Rosenthal Both Mitch and Patrick.