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Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best Aug 11, 2026 · 3 mentions

Why the Markets Are Pricing AI Wrong | Gavin Baker · Invest Like The Best Aug 4, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:16:03 Gavin Baker Pretty cool to see the Starship landing, and it's, you know, it is funny, there's our friends at Benchmark, they funded StarCloud, and I don't know, last time StarCloud is an orbital compute company that, like, SpaceX is kind of partnering… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:17:08 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Yeah, we're sitting in the, we're sitting in the benchmark offices. 4 times in the scene

How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars · Invest Like The Best Jul 14, 2026 · 3 mentions

Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview · Invest Like The Best Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:25 Ben Horowitz So like the, the last one before we started that you'd say is top tier was probably benchmark, which ostensibly started in 1995, but it didn't really cause all those guys came from another firm called Merrill Pickard.

How Great Founders Tell Their Story · Invest Like The Best Nov 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:38 Wolfgang Hammer Uh, Mitch Lasky is a former partner at Benchmark and comes from the video game world and, and Mark and Mark Andreessen is obviously a

5 Ingredients for the Perfect Investment | Jeff Horing Interview · Invest Like The Best Sep 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:28 Jeff Horing I mean, to get Benchmark or Sequoia to sell something for a billion dollars probably doesn't get their heart rate up today.
  • ▶ 26:02 Jeff Horing Uh, though, obviously, Sequoia and Benchmark and others will tell you otherwise, like, they've written plenty of five million dollar checks.

How This VC Went From Broke to Becoming the Hot Hand in Silicon Valley · Invest Like The Best Jul 29, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 41:31 Ramtin Naimi So then we started leading financings more consistently, and, you know, we ended up leading 14 companies in that first fund, and the first four deals I ever led, two had raised follow-on from Benchmark, one had raised follow-on from…
  • ▶ 59:31 Ramtin Naimi That day, they had three term sheets from three tier one VC firms, and they signed the term sheet with Benchmark, and then within six weeks, it became very obvious that there was no retention. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:42 Ramtin Naimi The firms who I think truly excel in winning hyper-competitive series A rounds, um, that I've seen from my experience over and over again, tend to be Sequoia, Benchmark, and Andreessen. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:22:06 Ramtin Naimi Uh, Sequoia, Benchmark, and Andreessen have incredibly strong brands.

The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private with Bill Gurley · Invest Like The Best Jun 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

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