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Benchmark Part I

Acquired

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We Work

In 2018 when that wall street journal piece came out their holding in uber was worth eight billion dollars So that alone would have 16x the fund And I think at that moment They sold Some to soft bank in a transaction at that point in time Yep, that's their thing. On a lot of things sort of like along the way you got February 2018 benchmark sold almost half of its stake and snap and realized a billion dollars in gains Somewhere, I don't remember the time frame exactly but benchmark sold $900 million worth of uber shares to soft bank and at that point still owned seven billion as of 2018 In an aside actually on we work I was watching a video with Peter fenton and he said

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