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Ben Gilbert: belief

10 Aug 2021 Acquired Andreessen Horowitz Part II

“At that point, it was like, oh, this guy's an entrepreneur and starting a company or it was, I think, already a company in flight.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
10 Aug 2021
Publisher
Acquired

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…I think Sonny's previous company had been acquired into Loudcloud. But that was really emblematic of part of what the thesis was at that point is, we've worked with these amazing people over the course of our careers, we're going to be a network-driven firm. They didn't have the firepower yet to be a thesis-driven firm. Now they're extremely thesis-driven. At that point, it was like, oh, this guy's an entrepreneur and starting a company or it was, I think, already a company in flight. Absolutely, we should invest in it. We know it very well. It's a great employee. Totally. One of their other first checks.…

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