We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
The question has to be asked: Why do we exist? Each firm has to answer that question in a way that is authentic to them - if it's stock picking, I suspect it will end badly. For Benchmark, it's a… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0,… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck.… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
The question has to be asked: Why do we exist? Each firm has to answer that question in a way that is authentic to… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source. — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
