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Re:Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups by coleslawfail on Saturday September 14, 2013 @11:51AM (#6385950)
If that's the best you got, you've proved my point. Square I address below. Vinod gave the best valuation exactly because it was Jack. That's hardly founder friendly when you have no choice.

Jawbone is another fun data point. Yes, he bailed them out when they were going under. But all that did was give Vinod insane positioning. You care to share how much he owns? It's private equity, not VC.

Juniper is a perfect example of Bad Vinod. How long after founding did Pradeep last as CEO? and relative to Kriens, how we'll did he end up?

Lookout I don't know enough to comment on, but it looks like they were smart enough to get a second firm in to keep Vinod from his worst tendencies.

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Re:Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups by keithrabois on Saturday September 14, 2013 @08:15PM (#6387653)
Square will be a $10 B+ outcome. Juniper already is. Lookout, Jawbone and ZocDoc (all Series A leads) are $1 Billion companies. Ring Central is on the precipice of its IPO, etc.
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Re:Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups by coleslawfail on Sunday September 15, 2013 @10:23AM (#6389163)
Nice dodge on the questions. I freely admit he does well BT his LPs. The problem is Bad Vinod has consistently screwed with founders. Good Vinod is likely a product of all of those terrible outcomes.
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