Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm , the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. So, why are great technology companies so often run by their founders?

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. The founders have started companies before. So how do Israeli ventures scale up?

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