Bessemer Venture Partners - Other Notes

Other Notes

Bessemer Venture Partners is widely known in the venture capital industry for the publication of its "anti-portfolio", a light-hearted retrospective by the firm's partners of missed investment opportunities. The "anti-portfolio" describes how and why the firm's investment professionals passed on the earliest (and often most profitable) Series A rounds of now successful companies including Apple Inc., Ebay, FedEx, Google, Hewlett Packard, Intuit, PayPal and Intel.

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