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Tavel: Benchmark deliberately limits itself to five equal GPs and no delegation
“At Benchmark, our model of investing is that we have decided that we're not going to scale our business. You know, we haven't grown our fund size, and it's just five general partners right now, and it's a kind of this rare structure of an equal partnership. An…”
Tavel: Unlike other firms, Benchmark GPs conduct executive talent calls directly
“I'm on, you know, seven boards right now, and I am on these talent calls every week for some of my companies where we're doing a search for a CRO as an example, and it will always be me and then the talent partners of the other firms as opposed to the partner …”
Tavel: Benchling succeeded by spotting overlooked biologics market tailwinds
“We have another company called Benchling that has just done a phenomenal job executing in this kind of biologic space, which again, there was a current that they saw that other people didn't see that was creating this really, really big market, but in the begi…”