Missed Opportunities
Bessemer Venture Partners has a link on it’s website of something that they call as Anti-portfolio. Contains a few names of the businesses they had opportunity to invest, but did not.
Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine”. Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”
With names like Apple, Fedex, Google, Intuit, eBay, Intel, PayPal on its list, BVP has a very impressive Anti-portfolio. And it’s interesting to see that they’re so upfront about it.
[via Venture Intelligence India]
Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine”. Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”
With names like Apple, Fedex, Google, Intuit, eBay, Intel, PayPal on its list, BVP has a very impressive Anti-portfolio. And it’s interesting to see that they’re so upfront about it.
[via Venture Intelligence India]
source: Missed Opportunities
