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Obviously PG knows better than me, but I think it's still too early to tell given that most funding cycles are 7-10 years.
by fallentimes 17y ago
Obviously PG knows better than me, but I think it's still too early to tell given that most funding cycles are 7-10 years.
- pg 17y agoYes. We have no idea yet what the returns might be. Quite a lot of the startups we've invested in are doing well, but I've never even tried to estimate what our shares in them are worth. We'll start to have some idea how we're doing financially in around 2012. I feel optimistic we'll make money, but I never think about it. I just focus on the individual startups.
- ivankirigin 17y agoI surprised you aren't using any monetary metrics to quantitatively track investments. Wouldn't that be a good corrective tool to feed back into the criteria you use to judge potential investments? Or do you get enough qualitative information to integrate into better judgment and intuition about startups?
- quizbiz 17y agoSo if you are attracting investors, why do they trust you? Or rather how to you measure success?