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Peter Fenton is the longest-serving full-time partner at Benchmark, a renowned venture firm known for its artisanal approach and deep alignment with founders. Over the last two decades, Peter led investments in Twitter, Yelp, Elastic, Docker, Zuora, and many others. He also achieved one of the rarest feats in venture history in 2014 when two of his investments, Hortonworks and New Relic, went public on the same day. More recent investments include Sierra, Ollama, ClickHouse, and Airtable. Peter is considered one of the most successful tech investors of our time and is an incredible person to learn from.
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- Darwinism and Silicon Valley
- Who wins as a result of AI
- Embracing things that don’t scale
- Sourcing and winning motions
- Being a great board member
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(0:23) Darwinism and Silicon Valley
(5:38) Silicon Valley vs everywhere else
(12:09) Highly adaptive ecosystems
(19:40) Who wins with AI
(26:22) Applying Darwinism to venture
(36:54) North Stars in venture
(42:22) Embracing things that don’t scale
(49:51) A young person’s game
(57:10) Sourcing methodologies
(1:07:50) Convincing founders to choose you
(1:10:56) Not a winner-take-all game
(1:13:35) Being a great board member
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