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.
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182statements
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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.
Mitchell Green: Secondary sales account for roughly a third of Lead Edge deals
“Probably a third of our deals have been secondary sales.”
Mitchell Green: VC LPs are hyper-focused on cash distributions over paper gains
“I do think that investors are very, very, very focused on DPI now.”
Mitchell Green: Emerging VCs can deliver strong DPI using early secondary sales
“As a new relative upcomer in the first couple funds, you can actually generate amazing APIs. It's a game you can play.”
Green: Sequoia, Benchmark, and Index succeed because they excel at recruiting
“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 people want to work for those funds portfolio companies.”
Mitchell Green: Gross dollar retention is the most important tech metric
“It's the most important number in tech companies. Gross dollar retention.”
Mitchell Green: Lead Edge Capital rejects companies with under 90% retention
“18 is good. Like, you want like 90%. Anything less than 18, we won't touch.”
Green: Lead Edge rejects founders who refuse to ever go public
“Listen, if your plan is to try to stay private forever, you're just not for us. Like, we just don't want to invest in you.”
Green: Private tech valuations are irrational compared to public market comps
“I mean, it's kind of silly. It's like, do these private market investors look at the public markets?”
Green: $5B–$10B IPOs remain fully viable despite growth of ETFs
“In the world where, like, ETFs and passives have become huge and the number of fundamental investors is, like, shrinking, I don't think you want to be a two to, ideally, you don't want to be, like, a two to three billion dollar company, but I don't think there…”
Green: Sub-$2B IPOs offer strong 10-year holding opportunities
“I think when you get, like, sub a billion or two billion, it's, like, it's kind of just, like, a pain in the ass to be a public company investor, but you can do it. Like, who says you can't do it? I actually, we wish probably more would. Why? Because they'd be…”
Green: Lead Edge Was Wrong Refusing 10X Revenue Software Multiples
“And so, like, the hardest decision is, actually, the hardest decision was, did we, should we have in, like, nine, 2017 and 18, like, and 16, like, paid, like, when everybody, when we were paying five to seven times revenues for software companies, and Iconic c…”
Green: Incumbents usually win tech cycles through customer distribution
“The incumbents usually win. It's customer distribution.”
Mitchell Green: The IPO market is fine and recent performance is strong
“The problem with the IPO market is actually totally fine. If you look at IPO performance of companies, they've actually done pretty well versus opening day prices.”
Green: Most VC funds excel at investing but struggle with selling
“We think there's a lot of really good funds that are really good at investing. We think there's a lot of people that are not very good at selling.”
Green: Lead Edge targets 1:1 revenue to cumulative burn ratio
“Are your revenues today greater than your historical cash burn? Cumulatively. Not raised. If you've raised 80, but only burned 20, and you have a forty million dollar revenue business, like that's a great business. But we're looking for like a one to one ratio…”
Green: Lead Edge Capital is 95% backed by individual LPs
“And our model is like, we're going to be 95% backed by individuals and we're going to treat those individuals like gold.”
Green: LPs are a VC firm's most important customer
“Well I would tell you that we have two customers. Founders, but more importantly, LPs, because if you do not have LPs, you do not have a business.”
Green: Lead Edge Capital targets 97% gross LP dollar retention
“So like, we run our business trying to figure out how do we have 97%, how do we keep up 97% gross dollar retention, not net, gross, With LPs.”
Green: The West completely underestimates China's capabilities in AI
“A hundred percent. I just have seen how hard people in China work at some of these tech companies.”
Green: ByteDance will definitely list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
“Hong Kong, for sure. Like, by the way, Tencent's listed in Hong Kong. It's gigantic. Hong Kong, a hundred percent.”
Green: ByteDance matches Meta in earnings while growing faster
“This is the same size business in terms of earnings grows faster.”
Green: Crypto resembles the tulip craze due to a lack of commercial utility
“Not bearish on crypto, but, like, I think it reminds me a little bit of the tulip craze that you can't actually use crypto to go buy, like, when you could, if I could go buy a Tesla with crypto, it'd be amazing. If I could go to Amazon and use Bitcoin, it'd be…”
Green: Opportunistic 'tourist' investors will eventually be washed out of venture capital
“A hundred percent. When? I don't know. It might be like a slow You know, it might be like a slow hole in the canoe, but eventually, yes, they will, yes, a hundred percent.”
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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 → |