20VC: Lessons from Investing $2BN and Returning $8BN in Cash | Why Most Venture Partnerships are Broken | We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions | Are The Best Deals Always Expensive and Competitive with Jake Saper @ Emergence Capital
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We have deployed a little less than two billion dollars in capital. We've returned In cash, a little over eight billion dollars. That fund, I believe, was fund three. Which is the same fund that has Zoom.
I think it's a sixteen times DPI. We did this analysis on How have our deals fared? certain graduation metrics relative to market. Nine out of ten of our deals have gone on to raise successful fallen rounds.
One out of five. They've gone on to raise. rounds at north of a billion dollars. One out of ten of our early stage investments. Have gone public.
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