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Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 8:48 Josh Wolfe And I believe that at least General Atlantic, General Catalyst, Andreessen, maybe Insight, maybe Lightspeed, go public.
Friends Reunion 3 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (EP.454)
- ▶ 41:08 Brett Barth I mean, I think what GA is doing is really cool in terms of having an AI bot on their investment committee, thinking about investment decisions they made in the past and having that institutional memory in a bot.
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 12:23 Mitchell Green And I didn't frankly think there was much difference between Bessemer and Sequoia and Kleiner at the time, and General Atlantic and TCV, other than some people wrote bigger checks and smaller checks.
- ▶ 33:22 unnamed speaker But the type of work we do, we pride ourselves, would look like KKR or Blackstone or General Atlantic or Leonard Green.
- ▶ 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
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 48:23 David Salem The model is the General Atlantic business model. 5 times in the scene
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 7:51 Tom Steyer When I went to Stanford Business School, my summer job between the two years of business school was working in an investment firm called General Atlantic. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:59 Tom Steyer I could have gone back to General Atlantic and for a variety of reasons, which turned out I was too short-sighted about because General Atlantic turned out to be a fantastic place to work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Tom Steyer It's called Hellman and Friedman, and I think they guaranteed me eight million dollars of LP money, and one of my good friends at GA said they would go on the hook for five million dollars of LP money.
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 8:31 Gregg Lemkau The tech M&A business, and it's fascinating, it was a guy named Mark McMorris, who went on to go work at General Atlantic for a long time, and then Robert Smith, who eventually went on to go found Vista Equity, and me, the three of us went…
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 29:21 Tom Lenehan And what really helped us get over the hump is that they do a lot of work with some of our incumbents, like insight, like general Atlantic, like Brighton park.
Will Cook - Sunriver Management (Manager Meetings, EP.22)
- ▶ 13:30 Will Cook And it made me really want to get involved in investing in interesting and exciting companies and was able to get a job at general Atlantic partners, which was a lot smaller firm at the time, but a really wonderful firm that really exposed…
- ▶ 13:55 Will Cook After General Atlantic, I was going to go back to business school at the time and deferred admission to business school to take a job at a firm called Internet Capital Group, and this ended up being a really impactful period in my life.
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
- ▶ 4:45 Ted Seides Bill is chairman and CEO of General Atlantic, a pioneer in growth equity investing founded back in 1980 by duty free shoppers entrepreneur Chuck Feeney. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 Ted Seides So when you brought that lens to looking at GA, what did you find under the roof? 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:40 Tom Lenehan And then how did you get to GA? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:37 Tom Lenehan So let me just maybe pivot to General Atlantic itself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:07 Tom Lenehan I've always been amazed at how you can look at everything and then still kind of maintain an incredibly high bar for what makes a GA investment versus what doesn't, even though it's spread across all these different factors.
- ▶ 23:56 Tom Lenehan You guys, for the bulk of GA's history, have stuck pretty close to your knitting in just growth equity, and then you've turned it into an incredibly global franchise. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:40 Tom Lenehan When you think about, is that something that GA would ever do? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:39 Tom Lenehan You have touched on so many unique elements of General X culture, and they're quite consistent, and they all kind of hang together to create the special place that this organization is. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:25 Bill Ford We have our own foundation. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:07 Bill Ford We've made a big commitment to life sciences here at General Atlantic and for that reason.
- ▶ 57:13 Tom Lenehan It's been a personal pleasure for me to be back in GA's offices, where we had many investment committee meetings, but can't thank you enough for all your time.