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20VC: The Rippling Memo: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on The Conviction Building Process to Write a $200M Check and Co-Lead Rippling's Series D | Why No Competitor Can Out Execute Rippling | Uncapped SAFE's Why You Should Never Do Them and Why Geoff Broke The Ru

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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Investing Is the Art Form of Raising Capital

We tried to lead the series A in 2019 and the postmortem from that was every round in rippling was going to just be priced to absolute perfection. This team, Parker and his team at Ripley, are masters of raising capital. They have it down to an art form. And so, you know, look, we were out there on the series A by about 100 million. That's why we've never done them since Ripley. We would never do them again unless a clone of this scenario surfaces some years down the road, which I doubt it will.

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