Michael Lewis
speaker
11,580 appearances
71 recordings
16 series
first heard Sep 2020
last heard 23 Jun
Michael Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was LVMH, that was the NFL, that was Porsche, that was the beginning of what we were really doing.
Yeah, yeah.
And I think that's when we started to build the confidence of like, oh, we can do something that is unique.
Yes.
And so then JP Morgan came in in the January 24.
So we had done the year of kind of building this out.
By frame for all this story was Sequoia.
So this story is very different than Sequoia.
But we interviewed Doug Leone, who was one of the, I guess, two stewards ago of Sequoia.
And he told us that after the dot-com crash for the Sequoia fund that was the dot-com bubble fund,
Every other venture firm out there after the bubble popped were taking Mulligan funds.
They went to their LPs and they said, you know, there's nothing we can do on this one.
We're going to be more disciplined next time.
We said, absolutely not.
We will never lose money for our investors, ever.
We will do everything we can possibly do to make this fund in the black.
And he said the best line anyone's ever said on Acquired.
He said, we looked at each other and you could burn cigarettes on our arms and we wouldn't flinch.
And they spent the next five years.
They didn't raise another fund.
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