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▶ 50:58 Ed Grefenstette Maybe he would squeeze his way in for a million or two, and he did that with Excel, and ultimately became a significant relationship for us, for instance.

▶ 44:56 Chris Douvos And I think back to the worst decision I ever made in O two when Excel came back and, you know, you looked at the numbers and the numbers were horrible. 3 times in the scene
▶ 47:14 Joelle Kayden So take a company like Slack, which in its prior incarnation was left for dead, and then after many sleepless nights decided to go for it and created, you know, a massive outcome for Excel.

▶ 20:58 Sebastian Mallaby This is a phrase that comes from one of the founders of Axel Capital set up in 1983, and he had this saying, chance favors the prepared mind.
▶ 31:56 Sebastian Mallaby Accel, for the most part, I would say, has done that since.
▶ 33:02 Sebastian Mallaby I mean, Samir Gandhi is a successful VC at Accel today.
▶ 40:49 Sebastian Mallaby I was talking on a Zoom call recently to the person who runs Accel in Bangalore, India, and he told me a great story, which I think illustrates the point here. 2 times in the scene

▶ 19:37 Joelle Kayden But we are very fortunate that we've backed some terrific firms that we've stayed with, Excel since 2000, Andreessen since fund two.
▶ 21:32 Joelle Kayden There are the brand name funds, obviously, firms like Sequoia, Andreessen, Excel.
▶ 25:07 Ted Seides Everyone thinks about venture being a serially correlated business where the benchmarks or the Excels or the Sequoias have access that others don't.

▶ 32:04 David Rosenthal Like I think Excel is a great example of this. 3 times in the scene
▶ 39:12 David Rosenthal That's an Excel lightspeed bench, you know, anyway, anybody who's leading the round.

▶ 7:18 Eric Yuppin You could argue to grown up in a great firm, whether it's Sequoia, one of the world's greatest or the Greylock XL that this, that the training and the exposure to that level of intellect, that level of ferocity, that level of
▶ 8:45 Ted Seides So I'm curious in the big seats where you sat, a lot of times you expect these venture portfolios to be filled with the sequoias and the axiles because you do have access and there's long, long histories of relationships there.

▶ 5:49 Ted Seides Falcon X currently services over 250 institutions globally, and its backers include Accel, American Express, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity.

▶ 5:39 Ted Seides Falcon X currently services over 250 institutions globally, and its backers include Accel, American Express,

▶ 5:34 Ted Seides Falcon X currently services over 250 institutions globally, and its backers include Accel, American Express, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity.

▶ 6:14 Ted Seides Falcon X currently services over 250 institutions globally, and its backers include Accel, American Express, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity.

▶ 13:40 Mike Mauze Some were Summit partners, Excel partners, many names that had already been taken, and he just didn't know.

▶ 12:40 Tim Recker But they were first fund investors with Excel Ventures, with Blackstone, with Berkshire Partners, just a long list of firms that were excellent firms.

▶ 15:47 Josh Wolfe What's going to be your really durable advantage competitively when you're looking at these amazing people at Sequoia and Benchmark and Axel and Kleiner?

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