My firstminute | Peter Fenton, Benchmark Capital

What has Peter Fenton learned from his experience as one of Benchmark’s General Partners? 

• Nurture relational curiosity 
• VC is a youthful business 
• Business logic doesn’t age well but human nature does 

There are just a few of the things he discusses with us in this episode of my firstminute from June 2020. 

Peter became a General Partner at Benchmark a little more than a decade ago after graduating from Stanford, part of the famous class of 1994 (which included the likes of Brian Acton, the founder of WhatsApp, and David Sacks, the C.E.O. of Zenefits). Peter was an early investor in Twitter, back when it had 25 employees and sat on the board until 2017.

Peter's current investments include EngineYard, Lithium, New Relic, Pentaho, Polyvore, Terracotta, Yelp and Zendesk. He also sits on a number of boards including Yelp, Docker, Zuora and many more.