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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm , the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. “You’re just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

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. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale.