Invest Like the Best
Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]
March 24, 202654 min · 11,590 words
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My guest today is Mitchell Green. Mitchell Green is the co-founder and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital, a growth equity firm that has spent 15 years building one of the most disciplined investment machines in the business. Unlike most firms chasing power law outcomes, Lead Edge is designed to deliver consistent returns by talking to thousands of companies a year, applying a rigorous eight-point criteria to filter down to a handful of investments, and…
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if you want to know what's a good company, just call 10,000 of them. You'll figure it out really quick.
“We run this place like it's a software company.”
“our number one KPI that we run this place by is what is our gross dollar retention for LPs? We want 95% gross dollar retention because the only way you can get that is one, have good investment returns and great client services.”
“we have one asset. It's time and it's precious. And so like, how do you guide people to say no quick?”
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