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Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner, Benchmark · 1 appearance on the record.

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He focuses on early-stage enterprise software, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and AI, serving on boards including Elastic, Modern Treasury, and LangChain. Prior to joining Benchmark in 2018, he was a General Partner at New Enterprise Associates, leading early investments in companies such as MuleSoft and MongoDB.

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Everything Chetan Puttagunta said on Acquired that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Puttagunta: VC investment memos are crutches projecting partner ego
“I would say the memo. Is a crutch often because yes, it can force you into clarity of thought, but it also allows you to fill in blanks that the entrepreneur themselves are not saying. And it pushes a sort of bias and perspective that maybe the firm has, or ma…”
Chetan Puttagunta Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 14:02 Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
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Puttagunta: Entrepreneurs referred 100% of his Benchmark investments
“I was sharing this note internally, which was that I found that a hundred percent of the investments that I've made as a benchmark partner were all sent to us by an entrepreneur, and not necessarily an entrepreneur that we had backed.”
Chetan Puttagunta Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 1:09:09 Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
Disclosure
Puttagunta: Benchmark does not do outcome scenario analysis on investments
“There's no sort of, like, outcome scenario analysis here that says, like, here's the 10% upside, bull case, bear case. These are all things that, you know, those of us that came from other places had all done.”
Chetan Puttagunta Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 1:16:23 Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
Disclosure
Puttagunta: Benchmark lacks formal programs but lets partners hire principals and EIRs
“I would say that we don't have associates, but One of us may hire an associate. We don't have principals. We have a principal. We have EIRs. We have venture partners. It's just, you're trying to figure stuff out.”
Chetan Puttagunta Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 1:49:06 Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired

The other half of the tape: Chetan Puttagunta's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 9 times in 4 episodes on Acquired. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired Oct 17, 2022 12m
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