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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benchmark comes up
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:58 unnamed speaker I, I was reflecting on the instinct round, and, and my immediate thought was, well, back in my day, when a hot consumer tech company, like, caught a little bit of attention, they would get, like, a 25 on one 50 from benchmark, and that was…
U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:22 John Coogan Uh, Chetan over at Benchmark says, Anthropic very publicly claiming there needs to be a crackdown on distillation is puzzling.
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:21 unnamed speaker Foundation, Benchmark, and Eclipse.
Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:31 John Coogan Uh, Benchmark is gonna be absolutely cleaning up. 3 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 10:12 Thomas Laffont All of your competition, like imagine if I was pitching an entrepreneur and I'm like, oh, there's Sequoia and Andreessen and Benchmark, and we're all kind of sitting lined up next to each other waiting.
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:05 John Coogan He says, forgiving benchmark and others would be like letting the Wuhan Institute of Virology slide back into a good reputation because the new senior manager of pandemic causation has made more friends than his predecessor. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:24 John Coogan It's a philosophical question, but it applies, I think to benchmark because back when 10 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:43 unnamed speaker Erica over on X posted that Eileen Gu to join, uh, Benchmark as a senior associate when she returns from the Olympics.
Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:38 Ev Randall They're here for the high money on money returns, and this is one of the reasons why I'm extremely excited about benchmark competitive position in today's market, because we can go to LPs, we can say, hey, we're shooting for higher than… 4 times in the scene
How to Build an $11B Empire Selling Funko Pops | Whatnot CEO Grant Lafontaine Joins TBPN
- ▶ 11:47 unnamed speaker I think they raised around from like benchmark around the same time as you guys.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 2:53:37 unnamed speaker He's currently, uh, you know, at scale being promoted and he was, um, formerly an Uber VP and formerly also a partner, uh, in VC at Benchmark.
Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
- ▶ 15:42 John Coogan It sounds like you went with benchmark after the helicopter thing.
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
- ▶ 4:37 unnamed speaker Was he just trying to get back at benchmark or did you sit down and talk to him and sell him on your vision?
From NOTHING to BILLIONS (Masa's Epic Rise)
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:07:49 Jordi Hays Like, you know, this benchmark led the series, uh, front back.
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 1:01:58 John Coogan I mean, uh, general partner at Benchmark.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 26:30 John Coogan Is benchmark like that? 2 times in the scene
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 51:59 John Coogan We gotta analyze Blake because he was at Benchmark.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 2:52:02 John Coogan You know, uh, one of my favorite pitches with a VC that I ever did was with, uh, Blake Robbins when he was at Benchmark, and
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 16:47 Jordi Hays Yeah, there was some app that I think benchmarked back that was like a college finance app that was again the same thing.