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Early Stage and Enterprise Investing (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark)

2019/11/11
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Chetan Puttagunta详细阐述了Benchmark独特的投资理念和运营模式。Benchmark专注于与创始人建立长期合作关系，帮助他们打造有意义、创新且持久的企业，而不是专注于扩大公司规模。他们重视创业投资的技巧，强调团队合作和开放式沟通，每周一的会议是开放式讨论，小团队规模使得沟通高效透明，能够深入探讨问题并提供帮助。他们不依赖数据驱动投资，而是基于对公司发展势头和风险的判断，以及对公司长期发展潜力的评估。团队成员之间保持紧密联系，随时互相支持和帮助，共同应对投资中的问题，每个成员对所有投资项目都负有同等的责任。

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Chetan discusses the unique aspects of Benchmark, including its equal partnership model, disciplined approach to fund size, and commitment to early-stage Series A investments.

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We are joined by Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner on Benchmark, talking his investment philosophies, enterprise technology trends, and the uniqueness of Benchmark. How is this firm with only five partners and no associates so repeatably successful? Chetan shares the story of his very first investment, MongoDB, and lessons learned from his other investments and board positions in Elastic, Sketch, Duffel, Mulesoft, and many others.

Chetan also helps us understand how he balances staying open-minded enough to let founders shape his vision of the future (and not the other way around), while staying educated on areas where he thinks the future is bright.

“The product/market fit question, I don’t find to be a conclusive one…because one of the assumptions is that you’re assuming the market itself is constant, which we all know is not true. Today’s product/market fit might be tomorrow’s outdated solution.” – Chetan Puttagunta, @chetanp

 

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