Benchmark Capital
Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners. Fenton currently sits on the boards of DotCloud, EngineYard, HortonWorks, Lithium, New Relic, Polyvore, Revinate, Twitter, Yelp, Zendesk and Zuora.
His previous investments include Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook), JBoss (acquired by RedHat), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), SpringSource (acquired by VMWare), Terracotta (acquired by Software AG), Wily Technology (acquired by CA), Xensource (acquired by Citrix), and Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!).
Fenton holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business School, as well as a BA from Stanford.
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Last Updated: Wed, Oct 31, 2012
| Category | Title | Author/Speaker | Organization | Length | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast | Path and Purpose of a First-TIme CEO | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 56:54 | 11/2012 |
| Video | Path and Purpose of a First-TIme CEO [Entire Talk] | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 57:38 | 11/2012 |
| Video | Learn by Working in Large Organizations | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 03:21 | 11/2012 |
| Video | Earning the CEO Role | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 04:38 | 11/2012 |
| Video | Learning as a Leader | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 02:09 | 11/2012 |
| Video | Community Approach to Social Commerce | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 02:23 | 11/2012 |
| Video | Ways to Resolve Leadership Conflicts | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 03:43 | 11/2012 |
| Video | The Danger of Inaction | Jess Lee · Peter Fenton | Polyvore | 01:32 | 11/2012 |
| Video | The Relationship Between Venture Capital and Open Source | Peter Fenton | Accel / JBoss | 04:01 | 01/2005 |
In this insightful conversation with investor Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital, Polyvore CEO and co-founder Jess Lee talks about her personal and professional transition from working at a large organization to a becoming an entrepreneurial, first-time CEO. Fenton and Lee also examine the priorities of the CEO role, founder and investor relations, and creating the right team to build the product.
In this insightful conversation with investor Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital, Polyvore CEO and co-founder Jess Lee talks about her personal and professional transition from working at a large organization to a becoming an entrepreneurial, first-time CEO. Fenton and Lee also examine the priorities of the CEO role, founder and investor relations, and creating the right team to build the product.
In making career decisions, Polyvore CEO Jess Lee cites advice she received from Marissa Mayer, "Always choose the path that is most challenging." In this conversation with Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital, Lee discusses the benefits and challenges of working inside a large organization and the value of learning from mentors.
Polyvore CEO & Co-Founder Jess Lee describes how the organic growth of the company made for her natural transition in the CEO role, as it became "less about building the product and more about building the team that builds the product." With Benchmark Capital's Peter Fenton, Lee discusses CEO ambition, control issues, and unexpected aspects of the CEO role.
Responding to a question from Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital, Polyvore CEO & Co-Founder Jess Lee shares some of the mistakes that she learned from in leading an organization, including not talking to enough fellow entrepreneurs and waiting too long to rectify hiring mistakes.
Polyvore CEO and Co-Founder Jess Lee lays out her company's approach of using technology to empower communities and track trends to improve the product experience of social commerce.
Polyvore CEO Jess Lee and Benchmark Capital's Peter Fenton talk about resolving differences and conflicts between founders, executives and directors. Lee explains differences of opinion can be solved through testing competing approaches to problems and Fenton encourages helping executives work toward finding interlocking objectives that allow teams to raise their focus to a higher, shared purpose.
CEOs that freeze in decision making quickly cause politics in their teams, says venture capitalist Peter Fenton. Here Fenton talks with Polyvore CEO Jess Lee about the need for leaders to make timely decisions to provide necessary direction and the dangers of CEO inaction.
The logic behind backing a company that does not charge anything for their product is sometimes hard to understand. Fenton explains the unique relationships between a venture capital firm and an open source company they fund.