Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. This guy named Greg Sands at a firm called Sutter Hill had met with both and was interested in the category and encouraged them to merge, at which point he’d fund the combined company.

Fractional CTO 195

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. This guy named Greg Sands at a firm called Sutter Hill had met with both and was interested in the category and encouraged them to merge, at which point he’d fund the combined company.

Fractional CTO 70

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000. Running around Europe trying to find lead investors for these businesses was priority number 1.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Europe Portfolio Germany 76

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. We went through hundreds of thousands of resumes to hire those 1,900 people and we do so much to bring them in and to have to say goodbye to them, I'd say that was the hardest part. And of course, this is 2000. And last week I had to say goodbye to 1,900 people.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur.

Startup 191

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