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17 Oct 2022 Acquired Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

“Let's do it. I would say that we don't have associates, but one of us may hire an associate.”

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belief
Recorded
17 Oct 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Maybe this is an institutional version of this. The times in my life when I've held too tightly to something is when you're effed. Is this a way to hold tightly to the thing that's a core value of the firm but not too tightly? I think we should call it a fellow. We're constantly oriented to special people. Sometimes, there's a special person like Blake. I'd wanted to work with Blake for quite some time and I know Sarah had to, so we said, Blake, do you want to come work together? Let's do it. I would say that we don't have associates, but one of us may hire an associate. We don't have principles, we have a principal, EIRs, and venture partners. You're trying to figure stuff out. You don't do growth-stage investing, but you guys did Dropbox.…

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