Benchmark, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 16:45 Josh Wolfe You have others, benchmark, which I've always admired, that is a total equal partnership.
Adrian Meli – Active Equity Excellence at Eagle (EP.459)
- ▶ 52:54 Adrian Meli If you want to give me one of the top quartile of VC firms, you want to let me into Union Square Ventures or Benchmark, I'm in.
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 30:25 Mitchell Green So Benchlane, which we were an investor in, we're still small investors in it, was backed by Benchmark, world-class firm.
- ▶ 34:29 unnamed speaker And then you might have minority investor, but benchmark or Sequoia is in there or batteries in there.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 14:08 Mike Maples, Jr. Let's say you're Peter Fenton and you're a benchmark. 2 times in the scene
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 17:24 Gregg Lemkau And benchmark and Travis in particular having a fight. 5 times in the scene
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 48:28 Sahil Bloom You were having this disruption where a barbell had formed, where on one end of that barbell, you have the Sequoia, Benchmark, Andreessen, Tiger Global, these like big name cache firms who, when they write a check into you, you're kind of…
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 4:37 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 30:41 Sebastian Mallaby I mean, Benchmark and Sequoia have been at or near the top, but many have moved. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:44 Sebastian Mallaby Benchmark says that it achieves the same effect because it has this equal partnership structure where
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 4:45 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Kathy Xu – Venture in China at Capital Today, Venture is Eating the Investment World 12 (Capital Allocators, EP.243)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 32:32 Arjun Sethi When you look at a benchmark or a Sequoia, you want to aspire to be like them because they've done it.
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate in.
Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 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.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 11:47 Ali Hamed I spent a lot of time idolizing Benchmark and First Round and Sequoia and a lot of these amazing firms.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 6:12 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 4:45 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 23:56 David Rosenthal They just follow Sequoia and benchmark and that was the whole strategy.
- ▶ 33:18 David Rosenthal There's like the benchmark benchmark is a great strategy of this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:22 David Rosenthal I'm reminded of when I was in business school, I was lucky I got to take a class with Andy Ratcliffe, who was one of the co-founders of Benchmark, teaches at State for Business School now, and also founded and is still, I think, the CEO of…
- ▶ 39:12 David Rosenthal That's an Excel lightspeed bench, you know, anyway, anybody who's leading the round.
Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
- ▶ 17:36 Sandra Robertson You know, one of the first venture investments we made was the guys at Benchmark were in their first fund.
Sam Sicilia – Seizing on a Long Time Horizon at HostPlus (EP.103)
- ▶ 49:06 Ted Seides You hear about benchmark and there's incredible funds, but the capacity and access to those is effectively non-existent, except for a very small number of investors.
Stephen McKeon – Professor of Crypto Security Tokens (Capital Allocators, EP.69)
- ▶ 52:51 Stephen McKeon But that's actually considered a very valuable, that allocation, like take benchmark, right? 4 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 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? 3 times in the scene
Ali Hamed - Novel Asset Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.40)
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 34:02 Chris Douvos Well, so you're talking about, you know, kind of Sequoia, Benchmark, Greylock, you know, Kleiner Perkins, but, you know, here in, and I don't, you know, I don't mean to, you know, kind of trash talk anybody, but, but ultimately, when… 2 times in the scene