Above the Crowd

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER Almost a decade ago I had an inspiration.

In his recent bankruptcy proceeding filing, John Ray III, the new CEO and Chief Restructuring Officer at FTX, minced no words: I have over 40 years of legal and restructuring experience.

“As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Warren Buffet, 1997 Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff.

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs.

(*) Benchmark is/was an investor in companies labeled with the asterisk.

The partners at Benchmark are pleased to announce Chetan Puttagunta has joined the firm as our newest General Partner.

In spite of all the ink that journalists, analysts, and pundits have spilled on Uber over the years, no mainstream article has focused on what I consider to be the most elegant feature of this now ubiquitous, high growth global service — no driver-partner…

The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years.

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments.

For those of you who have moved away from the town where you grew up, the few times that you see your hometown in the national news creates an enormous sense of pride.