1999 Entrepreneur Global Stock 
Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
For public investors in Facebook to achieve returns comparable to those of Microsoft shareholders, Facebook would need to reach a market cap of $500 trillion, a number that well exceeds the total global market cap of all listed stocks. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3%
Cracking the Code
JUNE 24, 2021
After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.
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Growthink Blog
AUGUST 29, 2010
stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. entrepreneurs targeting U.S.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 31, 2017
A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. Lessons from successful entrepreneurs. Buffett made his first stock purchase when he was just 11 years old. Most successful entrepreneurs have weathered huge losses.
Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 10, 2011
Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Let’s not forget that Time Magazine featured Alan Greenspan, Rob Rubin and Larry Summers on the cover in February 1999 with the headline: “The Committee to Save the World.” The point here isn’t to be Pollyannaish.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 12, 2009
In Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, and other innovation centers across the country, entrepreneurs and their backers (who are not limited to venture capitalists) are all keenly aware that Washington’s addiction to enacting hasty, one-size-fits–all financial regulation will continue to have far-reaching unintended negative consequences for the U.S.
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