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every year anyone Matt Turck 9Peter Fenton 3Spencer Kimball 1Roger Ehrenberg 1Mike Freedman 1Mike Abbott 1Matthew Prince 1Ajay Kulkarni 1Aaron Katz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 37:46 Matthew Prince I remember pitching benchmark actually.
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
- ▶ 1:04:43 Matt Turck That's like that whole discussion around, uh, selling the work, which I think, uh, Sarah Tavell at Benchmark started, uh, last year, which is a very, uh, you know, insightful, which is, uh, you know, at some point you stop being software…
Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 2:13 Mike Freedman Uh, since then, we have raised one hundred eighty million in funding, becoming one of those New York unicorns, uh, with support from Benchmark, NEA, Redpoint, Tiger, Global, and others.
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:33 Aaron Katz And I immediately reached out to two investors who I had worked with in the past, specifically Mike Volpe at Index Ventures and Peter Fenton at Benchmark, two people that you, I believe, have interviewed in the same forum in the past.
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:18 Ajay Kulkarni And, and just, uh, earlier this year we announced we'd raised sixteen million dollars from some top investors, including Peter Fenton from Benchmark, Forrest Baskett from NEA, and the great folks at Two Sigma Ventures who are actually…
Fireside Chat: Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at IA Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 25:16 Roger Ehrenberg I think that is actually being very founder unfriendly because especially when, like I'll say in our case, most of our founders are first time founders, you know, like we're not Sequoia and benchmark and we're only eight and a half years…
A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:10 Matt Turck So you are a general partner at Benchmark, a very well-known West Coast firm.
- ▶ 7:56 Matt Turck And then talk a little bit about, um, benchmark. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 Peter Fenton I'll come back to Excel, not that people care, but Excel and benchmark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:56 Peter Fenton Because you, like, you have to go, so, so my, I was, Benchmark was the lead investor in MySQL, I was at Excel before I came over.
Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:42 Spencer Kimball Luckily, um, we were bored with our jobs enough to decide to actually start a company around it, and we raised money recently from Benchmark and Google and Sequoia and Firstmark.
Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 2:18 Mike Abbott but actually Benchmark convinced me to hold off doing that, and, ah, went to Twitter, and, ah, redid the infrastructure there, moved the, helped the company move off of Rails, off of Ruby, and built the engineering team from, like, 60 to…