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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms.

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Behind Every Great Product

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But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. The combination is amazing.

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