Gaby Goldberg (Investor @ Bessemer Venture Partners)

Engineering attention as a startup, the playbook for building in public, the need for curators, and thoughts on the current state of audio

January 06, 2021 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

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This week we had on Gaby Goldberg (@gaby_goldberg) of Bessemer Venture Partners.

Bessemer has built a brand as some of the best software investors in the world, and their portfolio consists of companies like Twilio, Shopify, LinkedIn, Twitch, and DocuSign just to name a few. Gaby is one of the newest members of the fund, and she’s already made quite a name for herself within the venture world.

In this talk, we discuss:

Check out the full episode below:

🏷 A different way to think about pre-seed pricing

⬇️ Time spent reading decks went lower in 2020

🚀 Reasons for optimism in the years ahead

📖 OpenVC is putting together an open resource where VCs can claim their investment thesis (thanks to David Teten for organizing)

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