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VentureBeat: Benchmark’s Peter Fenton lands both FriendFeed, SpringSource deals in one day

  • Nathan Lands · 3 months ago
    Amazing track record, congratulations Pete!
  • Alain Raynaud · 3 months ago
    Impressive, however, if the acquisiton of FriendFeed was really for $50M as reported elsewhere, it barely moves the needle for Benchmark. They are probably getting $20M max. Quite disappointing based on the resumes of the founding team.
  • bobbickel · 3 months ago
    I've had the pleasure of working with Peter at a couple of places (JBoss, Hyperic), and I can say that he does a great job of trying to help build a company. Great understanding of the market (so he picks good raw material), excellent communications skills, helps to build a team. He does the basics and the results follows...
  • hibcbcbc · 3 months ago
    Anyone know what Springsource's revs were?