Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

We sit down with all five current Benchmark GPs for one of their legendary weekly dinners, during which we ask all of the unresolved burning questions from Part 1. How do THEY think about Benchmark v3? What are their day-to-day emotions trying to keep the equal partnership “bending toward greatness? Why is there no growth fund? What does it take to become the next Benchmark GP? Why is there a secret Principal program? We cover all these and much, much more. We also recorded the whole thing on video - which we highly recommend watching even if you normally only listen to the audio feed!
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[@edwardowen7187]

This is great content. There's nothing like this. Only wish Gurley and Matt Cohler had been there. For reference: (L - R) Peter Fenton, Miles Grimshaw, Eric Vishria, Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel.

[@JoaoAlves-yw6ih]

This is the stuff that reminds us how great the internet is - literally a fly in the wall of some of the best minds in tech & investing. Thank you for this 🙏

[@speakers159]

This is phenolmenal. You guys essentially extended what Benchmark did by bringing the dinner to us, any plans on getting us involved as well

[@omarmeson6396]

Great episode, would love to see more of this type of content with other early-stage firms

[@justinpfortier]

1:34:53 “we orient towards extraordinary”

[@allenleexyz]

What an epic epi!

[@qwerty-dv8zj]

Awesome episode guys! Keep up the good work

[@rogerteran2965]

Incredible episode

[@chetanagarwal1]

Damn this is gold

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great episode

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ACQ ON YT 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@_mayankr]

Amazing show.

[@swyxTV]

6:50 starts

[@ryanjjones]

6:49 😬

[@Millenniallabs]

not sure what extent of this is pretense. But my oh my, theres this compulsion you feel to get an investment from THEM, after watching this