Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” This isn’t correct either. A good example is Symantec. Ben Rosen, arguably the best VC of the era”.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. That’s a statement of business innovation, not technological innovation.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. This is business model nirvana.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. In a world with little maintenance friction and pay-as-you-go business models, we enter the age of the disposable application.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets. Business model.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. In a world with little maintenance friction and pay-as-you-go business models, we enter the age of the disposable application.

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