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▶ 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.

▶ 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?

▶ 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.

▶ 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…

▶ 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.

▶ 39:15 Chamath Palihapitiya Why is benchmark only raising four hundred and fifty million dollars? 2 times in the scene

▶ 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

▶ 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

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