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28 Sept 2022 Acquired Benchmark Part I
“Today, we are going to talk about a firm who built one of the top franchises in venture capital, Benchmark, that has incredibly managed to do both.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- 28 Sept 2022
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- Acquired
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- Benchmark Part I
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…And I’m David Rosenthal, and I'm an angel investor based in San Francisco. And we are your hosts. The hardest thing to do in venture capital is create those massive outsized returns that only come from investing in one of the five or so truly important companies each decade. Then, once you've done that, the next hardest thing is to keep doing it with an entirely different generation of partners. Today, we are going to talk about a firm who built one of the top franchises in venture capital, Benchmark, that has incredibly managed to do both. Our Sequoia and Andreessen episode was about the empires that those firms chose to build, and this episode is about the empire they chose not to. Or maybe. There was a flotation with an empire in there as we'll get into.…
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