Henry Ellenbogen
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1,069 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 16 Dec
Henry Ellenbogen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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who are both good at analyzing private companies that are early stage growth companies, and then understand scale durable growth companies and understand the subtleties and the nuances of private markets and the relationships and the way governance work, but also understand truly being a minority investor in the public markets.
Look, I'll give you the measurement and then I'll give you how it really works.
When we do 360 reviews at Durable, we actually ask everyone to give feedback on what their colleagues did to make it better.
It's important and we're a really pleasant culture and we have high quality people, but it's not Anouk helped me this year and she's a nice person.
It's if you're following DoorDash, it's that Anouk helped me understand DoorDash
because of her knowledge about agenda commerce on Shopify really helped me.
Or when we did an investment review as an investment team, she took a special interest and she followed up with me, or she went to a meeting that was important and gave me her perspective.
We ask people to basically point to specific investments that they have.
The second thing we do is
I'm one of these people who believe we want to have great people.
We have to attract great people.
We have to allow great people to become great and provide the environment.
But I also believe we have to have the right amount of process that enables true excellence and creativity.
We, I think, from an hour's perspective, probably do less or the same amount as other investment firms, but I think the impact is really high.
I'll give you a simple example.
We do the same investment meeting everyone else does on Mondays, but we do an additional meeting where we go through ideas that we're looking at and we gate them together.
We're going to go spend more time on an investment.
Everyone's in the room when we decide to go do it.
So people start to learn what is it that's a good use of their time, what's not a good use of a time.
And if it is, if we're going to go look at something and I got to go answer these couple questions in the next stage of investment due diligence, is there a colleague here who can help me do it?
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