2025-10-17
31 分钟Welcome to Goldman Sachs exchanges, great investors.
I'm Ken Hirsch, Co-Chairman of the Global Technology,
Media and Telecom Group and head of venture capital coverage within Goldman Sachs's global banking and markets business.
Today I have the great pleasure of speaking with Byron Dieter, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Bessemer is one of the largest and best known venture capital funds out there and Byron himself has backed 26 companies that are currently valued over a billion dollars.
Byron and I will discuss the venture landscape and the most promising developments in AI and the software industry.
I'm particularly excited to hear his uniquely informed views about what tomorrow's most valuable companies are doing today.
Byron, welcome to Great Investors.
Always fun to be with you, Ken.
Thank you.
So before you were a venture investor at Bessemer, working with CEOs of promising companies,
You were a CEO of a promising software company yourself,
working with the venture investors at Bessemer.
Tell us about Trigo Technologies.
What was the genesis of that company?
I got the bug for tech.
So I was actually working at TA Associates at the time back when they did venture.
They've moved into private equity more now,
but saw the market opportunity when looking to invest in a business that was addressing the supply side of the e-commerce and marketplace wave.
didn't find a company to invest in and so decided to start it instead.