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Ben Gilbert: commitment

11 Nov 2016 Acquired The Facebook IPO

“Simultaneously, you have this market force that’s fueling that which is over the sensitive element of the internet that the one thing that’s always been true and that is, more information will be more available to more people than previously existed. So now it’s so much easier to get information than it previously was that institutional investors, VCs, and private equity firms would make the case to their limited partners, their investors saying, “Look, I have information access and connections to these startups or these late-stage companies that I will deploy this capital into, and I have unique access to that.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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commitment
Recorded
11 Nov 2016
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Acquired

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…In the private markets. Exactly. Simultaneously, you have this market force that’s fueling that which is over the sensitive element of the internet that the one thing that’s always been true and that is, more information will be more available to more people than previously existed. So now it’s so much easier to get information than it previously was that institutional investors, VCs, and private equity firms would make the case to their limited partners, their investors saying, “Look, I have information access and connections to these startups or these late-stage companies that I will deploy this capital into, and I have unique access to that. ” Whereas, that’s becoming less and less true. Yeah, absolutely.…

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