Why do investors seem to care about 'billion dollar exits?' Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies.
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Related Easing the regulation will offer mutual funds the opportunity to explore companies overseas, also gi... PARAS ADENWALA Mutual funds, which are responsible for the retirement investments of millions of investors, should ... ALISA GRAVITZ Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out ... JOSE FERREIRA Our analysts have long considered these less-tangible factors in an effort to help investors determi... KUNAL KAPOOR Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very f... HA-JOON CHANG Investors who had been less aware of mutual fund taxes had a rude awakening in 2000, when many funds... DUNCAN RICHARDSON Mutual funds investors and their their funds are completely at odds today on the topic of global war... PAM SOLO Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most ... STEVEN RATTNER The size of this verdict speaks loudly to the disdain Americans have for multi-billion-dollar compan... PAUL BLANK The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't r... SAM ALTMAN These indexes provide a platform for investors to send signals to companies that they care about the... ALEXANDER BARKAWI Investors want to understand what a company does, ... Tech companies seem incapable of explaining th... JAKOB NIELSEN Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today... AILEEN LEE The SEC is clearly staking out some valuable turf in terms of requiring that fund companies give tru... RUSS KINNEL It's clear that the combination of competitive performance, screening, and advocacy on behalf of the... ALISA GRAVITZ These fund families collectively control $1 trillion, 70 percent of the US mutual fund market. The b... ALISA GRAVITZ Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money i... REBECCA MACKINNON Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. T... TOMOKO FUJII If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, h... ANTHONY GOLDBLOOM Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock ... DAVID COLEMAN The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of the... CAROL LOOMIS I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both priva... EHUD BARAK I think they're one of the top performing companies, given their skill sets in the transport network... MICHAEL DAVIES We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem... JANET JENKINS If they don't raise another fund, they're out of a job, so a lot of these bubble funds are hiring in... JEFF BOCAN In the short term, there is uncertainty regarding share placements. Since August 31, fund-raising ac... LOUIS WONG U.S. companies are committed to humanitarian relief and do care as well about improving their image ... MARIA SCHNEIDER Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windo... BARRY RITHOLTZ I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their r... DAYMOND JOHN Those gains resulted from the acquisition of several companies, held in our portfolio of venture cap... ROSS KARI Like anything else in venture capital, you tend to allocate capital to those companies that can yiel... MARK BOOTH Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a ... JAY SAMIT These vertically operated companies have the cash to make things work in their favor. Many local por... MARC HERSHMAN It is the first time that these companies have admitted to major quantitative reductions in antibiot... MARGARET MELLON Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just b... BARRY RITHOLTZ Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particul... ALEX BERENSON Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector. MARC ANDREESEN Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more t... DAVID MIXNER Customers really liked the idea of getting in on the ground floor of a new fund, especially funds th... JEFF LYONS Fund companies are having trouble justifying building up Web sites. It's amazing how few fund compan... JAMES PUNISHILLER We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data th... ANNE M. MULCAHY Their smaller size gives them less diversification, less geographic spread. So you have a little bit... ED MARAN What life companies have to do is get their costs down to less than 1 percent of funds under managem... JOHN RUSSELL Investors see nothing but sunny skies as far as the eye can see and therefore do not care one iota a... WHITNEY TILSON Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount... JEFF BEZOS Companies are being a lot more careful about using their limited funds to do what they've committed ... DANA DIPRIMA I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only o... PETER LYNCH I think you saw a lot of fund managers latch on to the stock market's momentum in the fourth quarter... BILL SICKLES Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of t... JAMES SUROWIECKI There are very few companies that are $30 billion in terms of size and very liquid in terms of stock... ALEX CENA There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales compan... OLIVIA WILDE Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn't think twice about pitching in to help ... GREG GUTFELD There's just such an enormous demand from pension funds and insurance companies to match their asset... MARK VITNER It's a flight to quality. Investors as well as advisers are seeking out large, blue-chip fund compan... BURTON GREENWALD The mutual fund industry understands the benefits of winning an award in terms of creating a news-wo... WILLIAM RICE The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we ha... MARC ANDREESSEN I think 'Shark Tank' is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first... DAVE MCCLURE As many companies are switching from traditional pension plans to defined contribution plans, more i... DAVID MCCLELLAN When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making ... JACK MA Fund managers are asserting that a slowdown in telecom spending is here for foreseeable future. As f... CATHERINE BENZ Some investors may grumble about entrepreneurs wanting 'unicorn valuations.' But let's b... AILEEN LEE Morningstar should stick to their knitting, which is measuring investment returns, ... They do not h... GEOFF BOBROFF Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just d... STEVE WOZNIAK The legislation can come very soon, it will allow 100 per cent ownership to foreign companies, as we... CARLOS CHARLIE BORDE Most of these companies don't want to have the fluctuations, good or bad. When we saw the weakening ... MIKE THOMPSON Many investors have become a lot more sophisticated with their asset allocations. They're not just l... DIANE VAZZA On balance, we believe companies will continue to grow their earnings, while buoyant liquidity and i... ANDREW MILLIGAN We like backing experienced entrepreneurs who have built their own companies, who have been in high-... ANDY JONES Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies t... STEVEN RATTNER At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I c... CARLOS SLIM Investors are actually willing to pay a premium for stocks of companies that have a governance frame... BRIAN CLEARY You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million mile... GARY VAYNERCHUK There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes'... WANG JIANLIN For the most part, I think it's a good thing. I think funds should report every month. Some fund com... RUSS KINNEL I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters. J. R. SMITH We know companies that would pay top dollar to find people who have the right experience for certain... JASON GOLDBERG These are the two biggest companies in the cholesterol segment, companies with combined annual reven... JEFFREY KRAWS Actually, there's not as much outsourcing as many companies would realistically hope. A lot of night... JEFF MARKHAM Chief financial officers are becoming better educated about the role and impact of logistics on fina... ADRIAN GONZALEZ Investors are shifting their money to shares of companies that have positive earnings outlooks this ... CHOI MIN JAI While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a pr... BRAD FELD Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their emp... MIKE HUCKABEE This certainly makes the case for investing in companies that export. Their costs are dollar based a... ALAN HOFFMAN You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a... PIERRE OMIDYAR It shows that foreign investors have increasing trust in Russian companies. ALEXANDER ZHUKOV You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a mi... SHIA LABEOUF Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to mor... PAUL HAWKEN It's unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the best-run mutual fund companies in the country is... BARBARA ROPER We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, ... FRANK ABAGNALE When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their ... MICHAEL SPECTER State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the l... JAY SAMIT At the lowest end of the range, in India, the overall average expectation is dragged down by a consi... JAY BENNETT I think investors are looking to buy stable companies ... companies that have consistent, reliable e... KEN MASUDA And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fu... ED RENDELL Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them... ALEX BERENSON U.S. markets are starting to worry about the earnings of multinational companies in the face of the ... ALEX WONG When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with co... CLAIRE DENIS Many of the companies are small mom and pop operators with a one or two vessels. We won't be looking... JOHN WOBENSMITH The actions of hedge fund managers in exercising their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors... SCOTT GARRETT It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and... DAVID RUBENSTEIN
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