Benchmark

5 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 18, 2016 by Peter Fenton · said 19 times in 9 episodes since 2014 · across every show →

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Mar 18, 2016
Disclosure
Benchmark partners are paid equally with no associates or principals
“Each of us are equal partners. We pay each other exactly the same. There's no associates, there's no principals,”
Peter Fenton Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 9:10 A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Mar 18, 2016 bearish
Insight
Machine learning is a 'game of kings' favoring big tech
“And machine learning is the game of kings.”
Peter Fenton Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 29:03 A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Mar 18, 2016 positive
Disclosure
Benchmark prefers backing founders on their second or third venture
“I love backing company two and three, and some, and number one, you get lucky sometimes, but, ah, I really love, ah, number two, if the first one was, you know, done with integrity”
Peter Fenton Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 14:55 A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Mar 18, 2016
Insight
Great entrepreneurs prefer dealing directly with senior VC partners
“The premise of Benchmark was that the great entrepreneurs don't want to talk to that junior associate. They want to talk to the decision-making senior partner.”
Peter Fenton Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 9:27 A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Nov 16, 2021 positive
Opinion
Katz names Mike Volpe and Peter Fenton top open-source VCs
“And I believe, and there's a lot of very smart people that are deploying capital in this category, specifically open source and infrastructure, but my belief, and I'm biased obviously, is that they are the top two or, you know, two of the top five, let's say.”
Aaron Katz Nov 16, 2021 ▶ 9:50 Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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