Henry Ellenbogen
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first heard Dec 2025
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and we're gonna start relatively small.
A lot of times we start by investing 10 or $20 million.
It's gonna make an impact for our investors, right?
We gotta be a performance driven organization.
And for our entrepreneurs, we gotta be able to do exactly what we've done for Luis.
We have to be able to do for Dylan.
What I think we're doing for Dylan, we have to be able to support Canva and Bending Spoons and the next generation of those.
So we gotta go do that.
With that said,
I do believe that these investment firms that have persisted actually have done a good job of at some point in time, while the initial team was at its high performance and still had plenty of runway, started to prove that other people could participate in the investing process.
That's something that we started to do internally with how we approach the private markets.
We got to, over time, flush that out.
This is controversial.
This is why I love what we do.
Because first of all, the world keeps on adapting.
And when I first started investing in private companies, it was highly controversial that any late-stage private company would be valued at above a billion dollars, right?
We talked about Workday earlier.
When we led the investment round at Workday at $2 billion, everyone thought we were crazy.
We invested in Twitter.
At a billion dollars, I was severely publicly critiqued.
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