Tiger Global Management
also referred to as: tiger · tiger global · tigers
9 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 3, 2022 by Ben Gilbert · said 45 times in 17 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ted Seides (8), Sebastian Mallaby (7), Chris Douvos (7), David Rosenthal (4), Leigh Drogen (3), Sahil Bloom (2), Michael Ovitz (2), Joelle Kayden (2)
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2025 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 35 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- Leigh Drogen – Quantamental Approach to Crypto at Starkiller Capital (Manager Meeting, EP.32)
- Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- Adam Wyden - ADW Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.37)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Tiger Global Management, oldest first
Jan 3, 2022 neutral
Jan 10, 2022 neutral
Crossover investors like Tiger and Addition accelerated the venture market tempo
“And at the top end of the market, we've seen some non-traditional investors, the tigers and additions and global and such come in with huge sums of money and very quick cadence. And that's also contributed to the change in tempo.”
Jan 10, 2022 positive
Tiger Global's 48-hour checks stem from deep prepared-mind diligence, not recklessness
“As you kind of go into the later stage, it's interesting because one thing that we've seen with Tiger, for example, Tiger doesn't take board seats. They don't care about operations. They're just extremely good at diligence. They're extremely good at prepared m…”
Feb 14, 2022 positive
Kayden: Tiger Global and Coatue win via fast checks without board seats
“One, we've seen the emergence of firms that write checks really quickly and are extremely aggressive, whether it's Tiger Global, D-One, CO-Two, name your favorite firm. That's just a very different strategy. They don't take board seats, but they're extremely k…”
Apr 11, 2022
Apr 11, 2022 bearish
Tiger Global's 2021 fund will be a long, grueling struggle
“So the current fund has either got to be a big down fund, or they're going to eke it out. I suspect that's more likely. They're just going to take the time they need, redeploy money, move it around, ultimately return capital to investors, but it's going to be …”
May 9, 2022 bearish
Bloom: Mid-tier generalist VCs are a wasteland lacking clear value props
“The venture landscape had fundamentally changed. 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 che…”
Jun 2, 2022 positive
Drogen: Starkiller models its investment approach on AQR and Tiger Global
“We try and pattern ourselves off of some mix of AQR and Tiger Global, and I think he's done it right, and he's taken his lumps along the way sometimes, but Times like this, he gets to come back and say, Hey, look, you know, the process works.”
Sep 22, 2022 negative
Wyden: Competing with Tiger Global and Coatue on Apple is functionally impossible
“I'm never going to beat Tiger Global or KOTU or anyone on Apple because they're going to have Yippit data and they're going to have robots and AI and credit cards and all of this stuff that's just going to make it functionally impossible for me to beat them.”