Mitchell Green
Founder & Managing Partner, Lead Edge Capital. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Mitchell Green is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital, a growth equity firm focused on late-stage software and internet companies. He has led or co-led investments in major technology businesses, including Alibaba, ByteDance, Asana, and Duo Security.
3shows
4appearances
182statements
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14supported
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74%fully supported
8said about them ↓ Everything Mitchell Green said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Green: Supports banning social media for teenagers under 16
“Yes, I think we should. I think it needs to be way highly regulated.”
Green: Existing software companies will not be wiped out by AI
“Are all of our software companies going to be completely disrupted and all of them go away? And like, I don't know, like I'm taking a stand that it's they're not. But like, I guess I could be totally wrong.”
Green: In outbound VC sourcing, responsive companies are usually low-performing
“And we had a rule at Bessemer. If the company called you back, it really sucked. It was the CEO you call every two days for a month. That's the CEO you want to get on the phone.”
Green: Preferred stock in capital-efficient software creates strong downside protection
“If you build a business with 20 of revenue, you're growing 30. And you've only burned three million bucks. You're doing something right. And if we can get in there and own preferred stock at the top of the cap structure, and it's recurring and has 80% gross ma…”
Green: Lead Edge publicly shames analysts who fail to write thank-you notes
“I actually have a handwritten thank you note tracker that I get for every employee at the firm, and I assure you, if a twenty-two-year-old analyst wants to get called out in front of 85 people, I have no problem doing it.”
Lead Edge Capital has lost its entire investment on only one deal
“We've, I think we've only lost all of our money, like in one deal ever.”
Green: About a third of Lead Edge's exits are secondaries
“Probably a third of our exits have been secondaries.”
Private equity firms manage liquidity and exits better than venture funds
“We think a lot of firms do a really, really good job on the buy. Very, very few firms do a very good job on the sell, like, knowing when to sell, pressuring to sell, and we would tell you that the private equity funds tend to do a much better job on the sell t…”
Green: Deals meeting eight criteria do not outperform deals meeting five
“If we do like an eight criteria deal versus like a five criteria deal, there's like actually no correlation to like, it was a better deal.”
Green: Companies should keep engineering headcount and leverage AI productivity
“We actually, I, for one, strongly believe that if you think in If your budget in twenty-twenty-four for twenty-twenty-six was to have a 150 software engineers, you should still have a 150 software engineers, because those software engineers can be, like, expon…”
Green: Platform dominance and excess capital make building giant internet companies near impossible
“So like capital's everywhere, but like four companies control distribution. So like good luck going to build a giant internet company. And right now there's just like too much money chasing You know, at least in Silicon Valley, two few great things.”
AI agents consume more compute resources than humans, driving infrastructure growth
“And actually that like agents appear to consume more resources and actually people. And so like the, some of these consumption based models, like the growth of companies”
Mitchell Green: Believing software incumbents will disappear is a fool's errand
“These companies aren't going anywhere. Like, the incumbents have distribution, Data and balance sheets. You know, it's a fool's errand to think all these companies are going to go away.”
Green: ByteDance grows 30% annually with massive profits
“ByteDance Grows at, you know, 30% a year with massive profits.”
Mitchell Green: Stocks without earnings or EBITDA have no valuation floor
“If you don't have earnings or EBITDA, there is no floor in a lot of these things.”
Mitchell Green: Heavily leveraged incumbents are the primary targets for disruption
“Where I think the biggest opportunity to disrupt incumbents today is Soft software, tech enabled services, any company, it actually can be a manufacturing company, it doesn't matter, any company with a bunch of leverage on it, because those companies don't hav…”
Mitchell Green: Mark Zuckerberg is right to bet big on AI spending
“Mark Zuckerberg deserves to go for it. Like, he's, it's his business. He built the damn business. Like, I don't think you really have much to say to be like, oh, don't bet on the guy. And by the way, he kind of has to because his competitors are doing the same…”
Green: Lead Edge Capital has had only one or two write-offs ever
“I think we've had, like, two 10 X's ever, or something like that, but we've only had, like, you know, One or two zeros ever.”
Mitchell Green: VCs should avoid easy responses and target hard-to-reach CEOs
“So if you, if the company calls you back, it's like, hang up the phone. It's the CEO you call every two days for a month. That's who you want to get on the phone.”
Green: Markets irrationally heed random online research over top tech leaders
“It's incredible, like, why don't, it's amazing that people are listening to some random research firm versus listening to people like Stan Druckenmiller, Howard Marks, Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen, like, Mark Benioff, people like Mark Zuckerberg you know, Jensen W…”
Mitchell Green: Current market volatility is amateur hour compared to 2008
“This is nothing like this. This is like amateur hour. This is like nothing. Like, this isn't even volatile compared to like what was going on back then.”
Mitchell Green: Companies will retrain workers displaced by AI
“A lot of these, like, companies will retrain people. They'll do different things. It's a, it's remarkable throughout history. There's been, like, lots of technological disruption over the last hundred years, and, like, people find new things.”
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| 20VCLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Lead Edge Capital | 2 | 129 | 76% 13/17 | full record on 20VC → |
 INVEST LIKE THE BESTLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Lead Edge Capital | 1 | 34 | — | full record on Invest Like the Best → |
 CAPITAL ALLOCATORSLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Lead Edge Capital | 1 | 19 | 50% 1/2 | full record on Capital Allocators → |