Dash: IVP was among the founding investors in Netflix
Somesh Dash · Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies · Jun 29, 2020 · at 25:08
Somesh Dash, General Partner at IVP, reflects on the firm's 40-year investment track record in prominent tech companies.
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“IVP was an early investor in Excite, Ask Jeeves, and one of our most, I'd say, important investments in the last 40 years was being the founding investors in Netflix.”
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