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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walker

HW: In 2021 you partnered with growth firm TPG to bring them on as your primary investor, which I assume gave your current venture capital partners a chance to at least partially exit the business. We ended up partnering with two different funds at TPG; the TPG Growth Fund and the RISE Fund.

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My Career Regret - The Money and Interestingness Trade

This is going to be BIG.

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm general partner at MarsBio VC and Director of The Corona Initiative. I saw him just work so hard on this diagnostics company where he partnered with this scientist that had developed a called it a risk assessment or a diagnostic to basically determine one's risk of stroke and heart attack. Robert Rhinehart : Hi.