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Benchmark is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. [54] The "maverick" firm [55] differs from most VC firms, which are named for their founders and are structured hierarchically; Benchmark was described by Fortune as "a lean operation in which its six full-time partners share profits equally."
The title of his blog, Above the Crowd, and the book eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists that profiles the Benchmark team, both reference his height; the subtitle of eBoys is “The true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups."
Eric Vishria (born 1979) is a general partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. [1] Previously, he was CEO and co-founder of Rockmelt [ 2 ] and served as vice president at Yahoo [ 3 ] following Yahoo's acquisition of Rockmelt.
He worked as Vice President of Product Management for Facebook until June 2008 [1] and was formerly a general partner at Benchmark. [2] [3] [4] Cohler has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top technology investors [5] and in 2019 was named to the New York Times and CB Insights list of top 10 venture capital investors. [6]
These are high marks: All of these funds are in the top quartile of global venture capital firms, and the 2014 and 2017 funds are in the top 10%, according to annual benchmark data from PitchBook.
Peter Fenton (born July 1972) is an American venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley.He is a general partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm.Fenton has steadily worked his way up the Forbes Midas List of the 100 top technology investors, starting at no. 94 in 2007, [1] then rising to no. 62 in 2008 [2] and no. 50 in 2009. [3]
“SoftBank and Tiger were the two biggest examples of this, you know, do-a-deal-at-all-costs-because-of-momentum behavior,” one venture capital investor, who requested anonymity to speak freely ...
Rachleff co-founded Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm, in 1995. [7] The firm invested in companies including eBay, OpenTable, Snapchat, Twitter and Uber. [6] Rachleff led investments in Blue Coat Systems, Equinix and Juniper Networks. [8] In 2000, Rachleff joined the University of Pennsylvania Board of Advisors for the school of ...