Profile of Bessemer Venture Partners, an early investor in Twilio and Shopify, as its competition with Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, and SoftBank ramps up
Bessemer Venture Partners is a thoughtful firm in a world of loose money. — 4 hr ago — In 2009, Ethan Kurzweil … Tweets: @ericnewcomer , @sarthakgh , @jasonlk , @ericnewcomer , @ericnewcomer , and @sajithpai Tweets: Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : I spent months reporting out this profile on @BessemerVP Learned some stuff https://www.newcomer.co/... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “Another former Bessemer investor observed that if you're a founder and want to know how venture firms might price your funding round, you should go to Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer to get the high and the low end of the market.” https://www.newcomer.co/... @jasonlk : “Ultimately, Bessemer owned 28.5% of Twilio when the company went public in 2016” The Anti-Portfolio, by @EricNewcomer https://www.newcomer.co/... Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : The Moldovan Who Sourced Shopify “Shopify is not an anti-portfolio for Bessemer,” Bechet reflected. “Maybe for me, in my life, it's a bit of an anti-portfolio situation.” https://www.newcomer.co/... https://twitter.com/... Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Bessemer Venture Partners is a thoughtful firm in a world of loose money. https://www.newcomer.co/... Sajith Pai / @sajithpai : Terrific read from @EricNewcomer on Bessemer, forced to zig in a world where others are zagging. For VCs that are thesis-led and thoughtful, focusing on value-add (and not just velocity investing) the last 6m has been complex, to say the least. https://www.newcomer.co/...