Alex Rampell
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2,118 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Apr
Alex Rampell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like that was the norm.
There was no Series I, Series K, Series W anymore.
You'd raise series A, raise series B, raise series C, then go public.
And consequently, venture firms back then were very, very small.
But also, the exits tended to be quite small as well.
If a very, very good scenario is you have a company that goes public at a sub-billion dollar market cap, and you get five of those a year, you can't raise lots of money.
But now the opportunity is so much bigger.
The five biggest companies on earth are all technology companies.
If you rewind 20 years, I think they were all banks.
If you rewind 10 years before that, they were all oil companies.
If you rewind 10 years before that, they were all Japanese companies during the Japanese stock market bubble.
But the opportunity in technology is so much bigger, especially because these companies, you can keep investing venture capital dollars later.
I think that's one of the main, if you look at the money that we just raised,
Almost $7 billion of that is for the growth fund.
Well, exactly.
But this is the point.
It's like if companies went public after the Series B back in the 1990s and the average IPO was $50 to $100 million of capital raised, the strategy would be a little bit different.
But the world has changed dramatically.
And the opportunity size is so much bigger.
And now you have technology companies that kind of pervade everything.
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