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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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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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.