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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 53:50 Blake Robbins Because, you know, I've talked to Peter, I've talked to other people, and they still remember that pitch being just so, like, just an amazing, amazing pitch.
- ▶ 58:36 Blake Robbins Peter tells exactly the same story, by the way, on our, on our team.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 1:23:48 David Rosenthal You know, who would be truly the most interesting person to have as playing that role would be Peter Fenton.
- ▶ 1:24:06 David Rosenthal There were a few things that Peter said that when we were talking about the principal program and Blake, uh, one of us, I can't remember if it was me or you asked, you know, so why do you guys have a,
- ▶ 1:24:21 David Rosenthal And Peter's response, well, it was like, uh, because forced consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, which is a famous quote from, I can't remember where it's from now, it's from some famous-
- ▶ 1:24:44 Ben Gilbert Peter's one of a kind.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:05:34 David Rosenthal It's, uh, Peter's the only, uh, white man left as he's fond of pointing out, which is, you know, great.
- ▶ 2:33:24 David Rosenthal And Peter Fenton is the first of these new blood to come on board.
- ▶ 2:34:14 David Rosenthal Peter Fenton is the first person to come on board.
- ▶ 2:34:17 Ben Gilbert And Peter joins from Excel.
- ▶ 2:34:19 David Rosenthal And Peter joins from Excel, which had just done Facebook.
- ▶ 2:34:24 David Rosenthal And Peter wasn't directly involved in the Facebook investment, but it was part of that relationship with DNA.
- ▶ 2:34:29 David Rosenthal The other thing about Peter that we heard from folks talking to was at that time,
- ▶ 2:34:35 David Rosenthal The existing group of GPs at Benchmark, and in particular Bill, they found that, you know, as they were going and meeting companies, everything that they would get interested in as they were going around the valley, they'd show up and…
- ▶ 2:34:53 David Rosenthal Peter has an interesting background.
- ▶ 2:35:05 David Rosenthal Yeah, so Peter kind of grew up in the business.
- ▶ 2:36:01 David Rosenthal So Peter's a baby GP.
- ▶ 2:36:51 David Rosenthal There's a massive question for Peter on the Excel side.
- ▶ 2:37:50 David Rosenthal In short order, Peter goes on to do Twitter, Docker, Zora, Hortonworks, New Relic, Elastic.
- ▶ 2:38:03 Ben Gilbert And Peter Fenton had been an investor in FriendFeed when Brett Taylor started that before Brett sold that to Facebook.
- ▶ 2:38:48 Ben Gilbert Okay, so Peter is new partner number one, kind of coming in in the next slot after Bill.
- ▶ 2:45:45 Ben Gilbert You have Peter Fenton, you have Mitch Lasky, and you have Matt Kohler.
- ▶ 2:47:03 David Rosenthal New Relic, Horton Works, a bunch of Peter Fenton IPOs are in that fund.
- ▶ 2:47:08 David Rosenthal Yep, because Peter had invested in Lucerne's previous company when he was at Excel.
- ▶ 2:51:53 Ben Gilbert And on top of all of this, you have Peter Fenton as a utility player and like a total shark across all categories from
- ▶ 2:55:36 Ben Gilbert But, as an aside actually on WeWork, I was watching a video with Peter Fenton, and he said, we were involved with WeWork.
- ▶ 3:10:18 David Rosenthal And then of course, you know, probably everybody knows at this point, certainly if you're still listening at this point, Bill has stepped back now at this point, and Peter is the only current active GP from the fab four era.
- ▶ 3:14:05 David Rosenthal About Peter.
- ▶ 3:18:25 David Rosenthal Not to mention, you know, it's not like Peter has left yet.
- ▶ 3:18:29 David Rosenthal You still have Peter Fenn there.
- ▶ 3:19:04 David Rosenthal Airtable, uh, where he met Peter, and Benchling, uh, where he and Eric overlapped on the board.
- ▶ 3:19:34 Ben Gilbert You got the elder statesman with, uh, Peter Fenton.
- ▶ 3:19:49 David Rosenthal You know, in no way do I mean this to take away from Peter, but like, he's, he's the last of the fat four.