megafunds

“One of the other things we love about private equity is if you can create food for that ecosystem, it's a risk, wash, repeat process of I buy something small and I sell it to the big guys.”

“I think the firms that are at risk or those are sort of in no man's land that are still continue to want to do diligence and feel their value add, but yet They're not investing at the early stage and they're competing against massive pools of capital with a ve…”

“In fact, some of the things I'm looking at to invest in for my family office right now are actually a lot smaller. Then the mega funds, simply because the numbers are out of this world. I mean, they're producing incredible numbers.”

“Like they have whole business models that are predicated on raising, you know, kind of spinning that black circle over and over and over. Other people's money, OPM, it's a hell of a drug. And so I think they've got to deploy that capital because it's a gating …”

“You will see The institutional investors that have historically loved venture and participated in those big pools move down market, just like they did in buyout. All the ENFs left the mega funds between 2008 and 2012 for the most part. I think the same thing w…”

“When 2009 came around, there was a set of very large funds. The market went into a nuclear winter, but those mega funds already had great fundraisers and they were going out and servicing clients and making sure that they knew what was going on and the global …”