Kleiner Perkins

“There's one point where social capital tried to join Kleiner Perkins for a variety of reasons that didn't work. Mamoon ended up joining Kleiner and is now managing the fund.”

“My first week at Kleiner working on a deal with John Doerr, and we were doing diligence on a company And he was in this diligence document at three in the morning.”

“The triple, triple, double, double, double, sass thing is like, you throw it out the window, you know, it's like, there's a new, it's like, 10 x.”

“We do this thing, portfolio review, and it's, like, every, I think every quarter. We go through all of our, or most of our investments and like glean does this thing where it will like summarize a lot of our board decks into like, okay, here's like the key met…”

“We invested in Glean or I should say, I mean, it was more of a, we kind of incubated Glean. So we had a big role of like getting Glean off the ground.”

“I think the only area that we don't have anything in right now that's like very obvious is, is is customer support. And so, you know, we have a growth fund. We're looking”

“We've got this now core team of nine investors. We each have majors and minors. We're very collaborative with each other. And we're generalists sort of across early, early in growth.”

“We're currently deploying out of, this is our 21st venture fund, KP 21 it's eight hundred million dollars on the venture side, and then on the growth side, we have a 1.2 billion dollar growth fund that we call Select, Select Three.”

“I am a predominantly outbound investor. Like the vast majority of my investments have come from me reaching out to an entrepreneur and trying to basically get in front of what they're doing.”

“Outside of those, you know, we're tending to write checks that are at least a million dollars or up. And then it tends to be on the growth side, you know, our growth fund's a little over a billion dollars. And so we don't want to be like way too concentrated. …”

“As personal a relationship as I have with each founder I work with, I have to remind myself that I was representing Kleiner Perkins on the board of all these companies that I served on, and I think with that, now that I've moved over to Lightspeed, there's thi…”

“You can think of carry similar to the way a startup employee vests equity, right? So they, they're given an equity grant. That equity grant vests over some time period over multiple years. You can think of venture carry as similar. And so the reason for that, …”

“There's a recent investment that I made before leaving Kleiner Perkins that of course I'm really excited about. And it hasn't been announced yet, so I can't name the name of the company, but I think it does speak to this, which is this company is building in, …”

“So my first investment when I was at Kleiner Perkins was SpaceX. And it was at an over a hundred billion dollar valuation.”