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every year anyone Chamath Palihapitiya 20Jason Calacanis 11Brad Gerstner 3Gavin Baker 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
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.
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 11:15 Chamath Palihapitiya You guys, Benchmark, Kozla.
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 16:18 Gavin Baker And I just always go back to the statement from Eric Viseria, you know, uh, it was a venture capitalist at, uh, at benchmark brilliant man.
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 1:04:37 Jason Calacanis And, uh, Manus is, uh, the company in China that started this weirdly benchmark invested in it.
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 1:02:53 Chamath Palihapitiya If they hyper optimize for returns, I'll put Benchmark, I'll put Fred Wilson and USV, I'll put Sequoia's early stage fund.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 2:08 Jason Calacanis And I know you're on a lot of boards, but you're not part of benchmarks next fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 Jason Calacanis Series A rounds are typically the rounds when a benchmark or Sequoia, a craft come in and, you know, join the board and put in a significant check. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:52 Jason Calacanis They don't think this might be a viable concern anymore, but famously Benchmark was able to sell shares at a very high valuation at some point and lock in an incredible return.
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 38:50 Chamath Palihapitiya I want to say something, because this reminds me of when Benchmark actually had Benchmark Europe and then they cut it.
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 1:24:30 Jason Calacanis Did you know, this is what I heard, that benchmark during that worst vintage, you know, after, I think the great financial crisis, or maybe it was the dot com, it was either of those.
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 1:09:23 Chamath Palihapitiya Benchmark.
- ▶ 1:15:20 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, again, I'll just say us, Sequoia, Benchmark, we've consistently been top quartile.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 53:23 Chamath Palihapitiya So we put, we, you know, pulled all this data from pitch book and we just started to, I just took a smattering of firms here, Andreessen, Index, Greylock, Benchmark, Sequoia, GC, Founders Fund, Tiger, Excel, Kleiner, Kostler, and us. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:39 Brad Gerstner But if we show benchmark one or two or benchmark six or seven, it's ridiculous, right?
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 40:34 Chamath Palihapitiya So let's just say you were trying to do a deal and Bill gives you a, a term sheet from benchmark and you get, you know, somebody else.
E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- ▶ 22:44 Chamath Palihapitiya Benchmark, Sequoia, you know, these guys don't try to create this team oriented glad handing approach, but they also don't allow the teams to get so diffused that there's 500 people running around ripping money in because you basically…
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 14:45 Brad Gerstner They have 50 investments like benchmark and altimeter.
- ▶ 30:44 Jason Calacanis Well, I mean, and then also we, we have the issue of selling and secondary when those opportunities arise, and we all just watched the We Crashed documentary, which one of your partners, um, plays a role in, I don't know, obviously it's…
- ▶ 43:14 Brad Gerstner You know, benchmarks legendary for investing in eBay, and it was winner take all.
- ▶ 48:50 Jason Calacanis You, uh, you're not in the next benchmark fund.
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 39:15 Chamath Palihapitiya Why is benchmark only raising four hundred and fifty million dollars? 2 times in the scene
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 48:54 Chamath Palihapitiya And so of all of these entrepreneurs that exist, the idea of getting passive money where you won't get fired, where there is that remember, like, remember when we were growing up in Silicon Valley, the risk is always like, if you take…
- ▶ 1:04:47 Chamath Palihapitiya I think benchmark was known as a very tough demanding place because the money was much more finite. 2 times in the scene
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 19:19 Chamath Palihapitiya Okay, you don't think these dopes run around thinking, oh, Sequoia, Benchmark, Social Capital, Kraft Invest, I'm just plowing the money in. 2 times in the scene
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 58:59 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm happy to take dilution in the series A when I get, you know, Kraft or Sequoia or Benchmark.
E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- ▶ 48:47 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, like, no offense, but I think that if you were a very good stock picker in the public markets, you're generating better returns than, uh, Sequoia, Benchmark, Name Your Best Venture Fund, you know, I see all these people spouting off