Byron Deeter

"You see our CEOs, we gave them all whoops and you'll see Oura rings or Eight Sleep and all these things now that are part of it."

"You see our CEOs, we gave them all whoops and you'll see Oura rings or Eight Sleep and all these things now that are part of it."

"You see our CEOs, we gave them all whoops and you'll see Oura rings or Eight Sleep and all these things now that are part of it."

"I have a different modality of communication for most of my CEOs. Like I literally have WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, text, email, FaceTime by preference."

"I went straight to Bessemer. Bessemer was our anchor investor, but more importantly the firm that I felt best about their product, their service, their delivery."

"I have a different modality of communication for most of my CEOs. Like I literally have WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, text, email, FaceTime by preference."

"I have a different modality of communication for most of my CEOs. Like I literally have WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, text, email, FaceTime by preference."

"We have an outside coach with Exos, one of our partners who does a lot of stuff with the NFL and others who they share the goal with them."

"Claude as their consumer front end. It would have been great if that also won and it may still, but fundamentally the better model approach and the business mindset that they were bringing to this."

"When you look at a Rocket Lab in space on our frontier tech side or the nuclear conversation we just had or you look at Anthropic and the foundation models."

"If you look at a business like Shopify that my partner Jeremy Lavine funded or a Procore or a Service Titan or some of these vertical SaaS businesses."

"You could look at Service Titan and say that's software for plumbers. How big can that be? If you step back and say it's actually multi-vertical, it's actually payments relevant, it's actually a great AI use case, they're at 10 billion already."

"I'll remember Staples and Marie Keen, a lot of credit, our early sponsor there."

"I'd worked in venture before not with Bessemer but with another great firm TA Associates back when they still did Venture."

"We have our growth fund is called Century Fund because it's anchored on this idea of what are going to be the iconic companies of the next century."

"Like I think of Melanie and Cliff at Canva who set some of these principles. And so do you know they're going to do great things."

"If you look at a business like Shopify that my partner Jeremy Lavine funded or a Procore or a Service Titan or some of these vertical SaaS businesses."

"When you look at Anthropic and the foundation models or you look at a number of our vertical SaaS companies, we absolutely believe these can all be hundred billion dollar plus businesses."

"For me, it's companies like Tesla early on and Atlassian and the software side and you know, on and on like this where massive respect for the entrepreneur, belief in the vision and just couldn't quite get there."

"For me, it's companies like Tesla early on and Atlassian and the software side and you know, on and on like this where massive respect for the entrepreneur, belief in the vision and just couldn't quite get there."

"Or infrastructure you know Maintainex or ClickHouse or some of these, we absolutely believe these can all be hundred billion dollar plus businesses."

"Salesforce and NetSuite had been founded within a few months of that."

"Salesforce and NetSuite had been founded within a few months of that."