Bessemer Venture Partners

“A year and a half ago, I had three CEOs in the same year tap out, including one that had to go away and needed real time.”

“Don't try to be the operator. And that manifests itself in a few ways, but one of them from the investing side is don't find things that are doing okay and going to fix them so that you go from, you know, good to great. Go find the teams in the business that's…”

“And so, you know, for me, it, it's companies like Tesla early on and Atlassian on the software side and, you know, on and on like this, where massive respect for the entrepreneur belief in the vision and just couldn't quite get there.”

“It was one of our largest checks, and now is, is our largest check ever.”

“We are Totally transparent with our diligence issues and concerns, and we don't dance, like, we'll literally share it after the investment, like, here's the readout, here's what we heard, here's, you know, here are the really red flags.”

“We just ran the math. Our average hold period is like 14 years, longer even than I thought.”

“The better in Anthropic was that they would be one of those companies and that they had the chance to compete at the one slot, which we very much still think they do.”

“I think that the founder product insight is irreplaceable. And so much of these businesses today are product led that we want to back founders who are unique and differentiated there. And we want them bought in for the journey. And tapping out and hiring a rep…”