Bessemer Venture Partners, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bessemer Venture Partners comes up
Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
- ▶ 16:07 Alex Sloane And it's people like Josh Kushner from Thrive and Alex Taubman from Long Lake and Reed Raymond at Apollo and Brian Feinstein at Bessemer.
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 8:35 Mitchell Green For Bessemer Venture Partners, and I had known Bessemer as this world-class, early-stage venture fund, and so I just applied for the job, and at the time, Bessemer was this world-class, early-stage, Shark Tank-esque venture fund. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:52 Mitchell Green I left Bessemer, and I learned a tremendous amount, and it was like a apprenticeship. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:54 Mitchell Green And I convinced him and he's like, listen, I loved how helpful you were at Bessemer, but I wasn't ever going to sell 20% of the business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:12 Mitchell Green The same thing we did at Bessemer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:30 unnamed speaker And I would credit Bessemer and Insight with that because the Bessemer guys, while they were early stage investors, were writing 30 page investment memos on 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 Mitchell Green Probably Jeremy Levine at Bessemer, who I worked for, and probably Bill Grabe, who was one of the original General Atlantic partners, who's been an LP in Lead Edge since fund two. 2 times in the scene
Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocators, EP.299)
- ▶ 25:52 Chris Douvos He had really kind of learned a lot at Bessemer before spinning out, and he's a really well-trained investor, while having that great entrepreneur sensibility and a real kind of
Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
- ▶ 20:03 Billy Libby And so if you're Sequoia or Forerunner or Bessemer, you have services and tools.
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 14:09 Steve Papa In fact, the way Bessemer became our lead investor is I went to seek advice from a former professor, and he said, well, send me a few slides and I'll participate in your convertible debt financing.
- ▶ 36:32 Steve Papa The deck we used in June of 2015, I shared that with the Bessemer partner the day of their IPO as a reminder of the deal that he got.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 22:18 Fabrice Grinda And raised ten million in venture money from Bessemer Venture Partners and from Gentleman Catalyst at a twenty-eight million valuation, which for 2006 was actually rather impressive on a PowerPoint.
- ▶ 49:07 Fabrice Grinda We'll sit down with everyone at every stage, and I mean, Andreessen, Greylock, Vessemer, General Catalyst, Tiger, First Round, I mean, we'll really cover everything.
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 27:26 Chris Douvos He's a very great, thoughtful, entrepreneurial guy who spends one day a week coding, but he also is extremely well trained, having been at Bessemer for a bunch of years.
- ▶ 43:31 Chris Douvos So I love introducing people like, I mentioned, you know, Ross Fabini, who spent, you know, years with Canaan Ventures, or Sunil Nagaraj, who launched Ubiquity after a ten-year career at Bessemer, because I think having seen the impact of…
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 36:22 Chris Douvos Bessemer owns, I think, 20%.