Happy Friday morning, everyone! We hope you have a stellar weekend; we’ll see you back here on Monday. (In the meantime, here is an easier-to-read version of today’s email.) —– Top News in the A.M. Alibaba is now worth more than either Amazon or eBay, with a market value of close to $224 billion as of this writing. As […]
Jon Sakoda
Jon Sakoda: Never Mind What Angels Say, VCs Have Your Back
Partner Jon Sakoda of New Enterprise Associates, who co-heads the firm’s seed-stage practice, doesn’t know yet if it makes sense for NEA – which manages billions of dollars — to be dabbling with nascent startups. Over lunch recently at San Francisco’s MarketBar brasserie, Sakoda spoke candidly of the firm’s concerns about “diluting the NEA brand and […]