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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 9:30 Harry Stebbings And actually the cadence of shipping combined with index benchmark and having one of the best brands in the space.
- ▶ 47:50 Harry Stebbings We've spoken about instinct being the AI assistant that's raised from index and benchmark.
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 35:03 Harry Stebbings And I think it was benchmark who co led that round.
- ▶ 51:42 Harry Stebbings And when you have Benchmark and Sequoia, great talent wants to join you. 2 times in the scene
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:58 unnamed speaker I, I was reflecting on the instinct round, and, and my immediate thought was, well, back in my day, when a hot consumer tech company, like, caught a little bit of attention, they would get, like, a 25 on one 50 from benchmark, and that was…
How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 1:17:19 Doug Leone Uh, uh, started Benchmark with two other persons from another firm.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:07:36 Jerry Murdock I think, um, Benchmark, while they missed Anthropic and OpenAI, they've done amazing with, you know, Factory and a bunch of other great ones that we've talked about. 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 58:34 Travis Kalanick I always, I gotta do the, I gotta first shoot the arrow, which is you definitely shouldn't raise from benchmark capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:43 David Senra What happened with benchmark and Uber from ever happening to you again?
Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:00:14 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Can you talk through that evolution, talk through the partnerships, like, way of thinking about it and talking about it, like, what you believe to be true that, that results in this decision to do this?
- ▶ 1:07:39 Eric Vishria Benchmark does these Monday night dinners.
- ▶ 1:10:33 Patrick O'Shaughnessy What are the biggest debates right now inside of the partnership?
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 AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 23:57 Harry Stebbings Like, every single constrained fund, including Benchmark, historically the, uh, central figure and discipline in venture has raised a, what, a billion dollar, a billion and a half growth fund?
Why the Markets Are Pricing AI Wrong | Gavin Baker · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:16:03 Gavin Baker Pretty cool to see the Starship landing, and it's, you know, it is funny, there's our friends at Benchmark, they funded StarCloud, and I don't know, last time StarCloud is an orbital compute company that, like, SpaceX is kind of partnering… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:08 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Yeah, we're sitting in the, we're sitting in the benchmark offices. 4 times in the scene
U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:22 John Coogan Uh, Chetan over at Benchmark says, Anthropic very publicly claiming there needs to be a crackdown on distillation is puzzling.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 49:56 Rory O'Driscoll But going back to the thing, just a comment, the other fun fact, I mean, you just got to note the fun fact, which is Benchmark's best fund, one of the, I shouldn't say the best fund because actually the eBay fund was the best fund in the… 5 times in the scene
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 38:06 Harry Stebbings And I think this will be the worst performing category of venture in this vintage because firms like you and Founders Fund and Benchmark and Sequoia and Excel, and the list goes on and on, are so effective with a very good seed product… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:05 Matt Murphy Uh, you know, I mean, series a, um, you know, benchmark I've worked with, uh,
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:32 Jason Lemkin Benchmark has a flat partnership.
How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 16:01 Patrick O'Shaughnessy I remember once, uh, one of the partners at Benchmark, I asked them, how do you fundraise? 3 times in the scene
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:41 unnamed speaker It's like in, in a way it kind of reminded me of Jack Altman, um, raising a massive amount for a solo GP fund and joining Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:55 Jason Lemkin I do this thing where I built an AI pitch deck generator that uses all the benchmarks from Iconic and Benchmark.
The Agents #008: Agents Are Merging, Not Multiplying. Plus, Sam Blond on Why Outbound Isn't Dead.
- ▶ 36:54 Jason Lemkin The AI native sales platform just raised to fifty million Series B led by Benchmark mere weeks after his Series A.
Benchmark's AI Bets: Cerebras, Sierra, Legora, Fireworks, Starcloud, Gumloop.. · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:03 Molly O'Shea This is like the first interview I've ever done with someone from Benchmark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25 Ev Randle I mean, the vibes, um, within benchmark are definitely high.
- ▶ 13:14 Ev Randle Thankfully, again, at benchmark, the main thing we do well is partner with entrepreneurs extremely early. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 Molly O'Shea And so with a firm like Benchmark, who is just fundamentally on the early stages, like how do you capture that value at the early stages and continue that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:08 Ev Randle I think, so, so when I was coming in, and I was kind of in the, in the, like, before, before I joined Benchmark, I was like, wow, they've done such an amazing job thematically. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:32 Ev Randle Um, I think another one now is, um, I mean, currently Eric Vichery, I think, um, is, is just like an incredible role model and leader within Benchmark.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:14 Harry Stebbings How does benchmark come into the fray?
- ▶ 16:38 Paul Erlang And then when benchmark kind of came around, we were more open to the idea to take money to protect the downside. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:23 Harry Stebbings Did benchmark offer the highest price? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 Harry Stebbings So we raised this round from benchmark, right?
- ▶ 40:34 Paul Erlang I think Benchmark doesn't really have as many resources.
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:48 unnamed speaker Well, I thought the guy from benchmark was pretty good.
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 37:46 Matthew Prince I remember pitching benchmark actually.
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.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:47 Everett Randle There's a partner here at Benchmark that says any liquidity for pre-AI SaaS companies is top decile performance.
- ▶ 2:03 unnamed speaker You know, Ev's old, um, benchmark partner, Bill Gurley, like, you know, is there a number above which Elon gets into trouble with Bill for leaving money on the table? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Everett Randle And so the really, really good thing for, I think, all the frontier labs and just the inference market in general, companies like ours, like Fireworks that run inference platforms for, for their enterprise customers on open models, all of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Harry Stebbings I have a direct question, and the latest benchmark fund is going to be the, I think, one of the best benchmark funds in history. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:12 Everett Randle There's a partner here at Benchmark that says any liquidity for pre-AI SaaS companies
- ▶ 1:05:58 unnamed speaker We got a value investor at Benchrite.
- ▶ 1:18:34 Harry Stebbings Av, do Benchmark have a robotics investment?
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:25 unnamed speaker That one, that one, I think, I think the folks that hate benchmark from Uber, I think they deserve to hate benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 5:33 Bill Gurley So, um, my partner at Benchmark, Alex Balkansky, would go to this charity auction that I think Andre Agassi would run.
- ▶ 52:41 Shane Parrish I'm curious from the, like how Benchmark was structured on the inside and how that structure contributed to its success. 4 times in the scene
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:44 Brendan Foody And so Peter took us on the helicopter flight, and then Benchmark really wanted to work with us.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 4:42 Jason Calacanis Hey, everybody knows you were, uh, you, you know, you, uh, handed the baton over at a benchmark after a very successful couple of decades in venture capital.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:55 unnamed speaker We, someone, someone bit higher and they won the deal, and great name too, Benchmark, 3 times in the scene
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:59:18 David Rosenthal So like the best investors in private markets think like Sequoia, Benchmark, et cetera, in the venture world, at least like, why would they ever give up their fees?
Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:21 unnamed speaker Foundation, Benchmark, and Eclipse.
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:25 Harry Stebbings The nuts achievement, sorry, Jason, is the 20, ah, what is it, sorry, they have 20% ownership, sorry, benchmark. 3 times in the scene
Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:31 John Coogan Uh, Benchmark is gonna be absolutely cleaning up. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:16 Jason Lemkin Well, Benchmark has their money, all right? 2 times in the scene
Making $$ with AI Agents
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:33:15 Rory O'Driscoll Credit to Benchmark, Eric.
- ▶ 1:46:50 Harry Stebbings Then they're fighting against benchmark and founders fund and Andreessen and everyone in between.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:07 Jeffrey Wu Like, benchmark acquired Jack Altman's podcast, um, you know, A-Six-Z, great media platform.
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 10:12 Thomas Laffont All of your competition, like imagine if I was pitching an entrepreneur and I'm like, oh, there's Sequoia and Andreessen and Benchmark, and we're all kind of sitting lined up next to each other waiting.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:44 unnamed speaker Benchmark invested. 3 times in the scene
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:47 Gili Raanan You know, let's take our, you know, favorite friends from, uh, Sequoia Capital, or, uh, Andreessen Benchmark,
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 11:00 Ashmeet Sidana So things change, but it's equally important to remember benchmark, which also had those same characteristics, has not changed.
How to build a company when you’re not an optimist | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:05 John Coogan He says, forgiving benchmark and others would be like letting the Wuhan Institute of Virology slide back into a good reputation because the new senior manager of pandemic causation has made more friends than his predecessor. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:24 John Coogan It's a philosophical question, but it applies, I think to benchmark because back when 10 times in the scene
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:41 Rory O'Driscoll What it's like in those board meetings and knowing if you're a founder friendly firm, like I would say Benchrock would like themselves to be, you don't do that lightly. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:37 Gokul Rajaram Benchmark plays a different game than, than, say, Andreessen Horowitz, but both of them play different games, and both of them do well at their game.
- ▶ 49:24 Gokul Rajaram Even in V work benchmark made money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:04 Gokul Rajaram First on Capital and Benchmark, where I've been, I've been on LP in both, and then Green Oaks. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 39:29 Marc Andreessen And then we, we, Loud Cloud, we raised money from, from Benchmark when they were like King of the Hill and Andy Ratcliffe, who was one of the founders of the firm and as a, you know, legendary, brilliant VC.
Redefining the AI Application Layer with Sandhya Venkatachalam of Axiom Partners | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 32:34 Sandhya (Sonia) Venkatachalam So, Peter Fenton at Benchmark, who used to be my neighbor in San Francisco, gave me probably the best advice on how to break into venture.
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:53 Harry Stebbings Like, when you look at, say, a WeWork, Benchmark were fantastically smart to get out of it.
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:56 Mitchell Green I truly think that's why Sequoia and Benchmark are great and Index are great because they help founders and entrepreneurs recruit amazing talent and, and, and people want to work for those funds portfolio companies.
- ▶ 56:52 Mitchell Green You know, I respect people like Benchmark or Index. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:51 Mitchell Green A Series A fund would probably be a benchmark.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:24 Harry Stebbings Um, maybe in my favorite saying that Rory often said about benchmark, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
The Most Important Career Advice You'll Ever Hear (In The AI Era) | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 5:55 Bill Gurley I was fortunate to be at a place at Benchmark Capital where we were, and they still are competing to be the best in the business, and the game's a little different at that level, because you're looking for the Grand Slam home run outcomes,…
- ▶ 28:42 Codie Sanchez Big investors, all your partners at Benchmark.
- ▶ 1:20:06 Bill Gurley Now, keep in mind, Benchmark's never done a real estate transaction in the history of the firm, and
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- ▶ 29:29 Pablo Srugo I mean, I'm just looking at a crunch a bit here, you know, five million seed from Excel, twenty-six million Series A, like a few months later from Benchmark, which is epic in its own right, and then one hundred fifty million dollars at the…
- ▶ 39:26 Michel Tricot And whether it's Axel, whether it's, uh, it's Thrive, whether it's, uh, Benchmark, they have all invested in very, or Koto, they have all invested in, like, very success.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:57 Harry Stebbings He made the move to Benchmark. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:52 Jason Lemkin And most venture is kind of going to Harry's point of benchmark should be five flat partners.
Stop Over-Explaining: The 3 S’s Rule For Projecting Authority
- ▶ 12:06 Codie Sanchez Uh, his company benchmark had never done a real estate transaction.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:57 Lucas Swisher I would say Sequoia and Benchmark. 4 times in the scene
Inside the Minds of the Most Successful Founders | David Senra
- ▶ 1:38:35 David Senra He used to be at Benchmark.
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:43 unnamed speaker Erica over on X posted that Eileen Gu to join, uh, Benchmark as a senior associate when she returns from the Olympics.
Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:04:57 Geoffrey Woo And you know, how maybe like, like, I, I, I feel like if you don't want to compete with Sequoia and recent benchmark Y Combinator, why are you in this business?
Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 30:25 Ben Horowitz So like the, the last one before we started that you'd say is top tier was probably benchmark, which ostensibly started in 1995, but it didn't really cause all those guys came from another firm called Merrill Pickard.
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
How Brex signed a $5.15B Deal in ~40 Days · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 55:13 Pedro Franceschi Um, I would say, uh, Victor Lozarty, who was a benchmark and now is running and running and crushing his own fund.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:38 Rory O'Driscoll It's harder to be someone like Benchmark, small and brilliant, and manage generational transition, which is why it's awesome that they do it, because the asset is the brains of four or five individual people.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:41 Ben Gilbert The story is one of incredible cooperation, of belief in growing the pie over a century, and just like our benchmark episode, of communist capitalism at its finest.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:27 Max Junestrand So our first board meeting after we, so to give you some context, um, we were YC, we raised ten million dollars from Benchmark, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:23 Harry Stebbings You got benchmark early, which then led to a red point. 6 times in the scene
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