The Ledger, every show
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Eisenberg predicts more private equity software investments will see Pluralsight-style zeroes
“I'm not concerned. I'm certain. It's happening.”
Eisenberg: Mark Rowan asked UPenn donors to withhold checks until leaders are fired
“Mark Rowan wrote, wrote yesterday that he's calling on pen to fire two people, otherwise he's telling people to hold their checkbooks.”
Eisenberg: Aleph raised an insane amount of foreign capital post-October 7
“We've raised an incredible amount of foreign money into our company since October seventh, an insane amount of money. It's wide open for business right now. Investors are on the ground every day.”
Eisenberg Predicts Venture Investment In Israel Will Surge Due To Resilience
“If you ask me what comes next in the next chapter of the State of Israel, I think I do know, and the Israeli tech community, and that is much more investment is going to flow here because people want to invest in resilient societies in the 21st century, as it'…”
Eisenberg: Market bust will reallocate tech talent but won't reduce salaries
“A bust in the past and maybe now would reallocate some of that talent around. I actually don't think it would reduce the cost of it for what it's worth, given how scarce the talent is, but I think it could reallocate it to better places.”
Eisenberg: Nexar covered more road mileage in 9 months than Google Street View
“We've already covered in, you know, like nine months more mileage than Google Street View has in all its existence.”
Eisenberg: Venture Capital Performance Declines as Investors Age
“You know, I don't ignore the data which says as you get older in this business, you don't do as well”
Eisenberg: Mellanox technology is the backbone for NVIDIA's AI scaling
“Yael Waldman's company Mellanox was purchased by NVIDIA, and that's really the backbone that enables NVIDIA to scale for AI.”
Eisenberg: All major US sports leagues spoke out on October 7, FIFA didn't
“You'll notice, by the way, that all of the major sports leagues in America spoke up against this, but FIFA didn't, and that's where the World Cup was last time in Qatar.”
Michael Eisenberg lost his cousin in the October 7th attack in Kfar Aza
“Unfortunately, as you know, Harry, I lost a cousin of mine in battle on the first day when he went in to protect the town called Kfar Aza which is a border town where tens of people were massacred, and he was literally the first, ah, jeep in, and he was unfort…”
Eisenberg: Over 100 Americans, Europeans, and Israelis are held hostage by Hamas
“If I could just jump in, Harry, also, it's important to know that there's well over a hundred Americans, Europeans, and Israelis in Hamas captivity. They were kidnapped from the music festival, and they're still being held hostage by ISIS, Hamas.”
Tech Founder Ami Daniel Built Civilian Rescue Platform Used By Military
“One of my founders, Ami Daniel, I kid you not, as soon as this happened on Saturday morning, he set up a forward command center. Quote, unquote, in which he literally directed the rescuers, literally directed them to where the people were. They've already, you…”
Michael Eisenberg: Founders take significantly more capital via secondary sales today
“One of these is different between now and 20 plus years ago in particular is there's a lot more secondary going on, which means that founders are taking capital off the table in a lot of these rounds. And it's hard to know how they react. You know, if the goin…”
Eisenberg: Nineties VC Was Concentrated Solely in Silicon Valley and Israel
“Venture capital was decidedly a Silicon Valley and Israel, candidly, investment theme in the late nineties. You almost didn't see it anywhere else at the time. You know, New York wasn't a thing. London certainly wasn't a thing, and it wasn't China yet to the b…”
Eisenberg: Post-1999 Tech Crash Occurred in Two Phases Including Fiber Optics
“People forget that there were two phases to the bubble coming undone. There was the.com, which has become famous because of the pets.com commercial, right? So that's what we all think.com.com. But there was a second one in fiber optic communications, which was…”
Eisenberg: Modern founders sell far more secondary equity than in past cycles
“One of the things that's different between now and 20 plus years ago in particular is there's a lot more secondary going on, which means that founders are taking capital off the table in a lot of these rounds.”