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Bessemer Venture Partners

Company blog · bvp.com/atlasstartupsbusiness

Bessemer Venture Partners is the company blog at bvp.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2007, 118 different Hacker News readers have linked it 153 times, most often “VC said no? You're in good company: Bessemer Ventures' Anti-Portfolio”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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153mentions?
118HN people?
2007–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 18 in 2022

Global in reach and decentralized by design, Bessemer Venture Partners backs founders in any sector—from seed to growth and beyond—with any check size.

Most-linked posts?

  1. VC said no? You're in good company: Bessemer Ventures' Anti-Portfolio
    15 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2012-04-30
  2. Bessemer Venture Partners' Anti-Portfolio
    9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-11-07
  3. A list of deals one VC firm passed on -- Google, eBay, Apple, Intel, Fedex, Paypal, etc.
    8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2007-08-14
  4. BVP Anti-Portfolio
    6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-07-14
  5. The Anti-Portfolio
    6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-01-09
  6. Scaling to $100M; how cloud companies grow operationally efficient businesses
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-21
  7. The Anti-Portfolio
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-17
  8. The Antidote to Cryptophobia
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
  9. The BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-12
  10. Bessemer Ventures Emerging Cloud Companies Index
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. rodrigocoelho · 2015-07-12
    Reminds me of BVP's anti-portfolio: http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio

    Comment linking /portfolio/antiportfolio

    on “7 Rejections”
  2. bbourn · 2017-10-25

    Submitted The Anti-Portfolio as a story · 306 points

    HN discussion
  3. asmithmd1 · 2012-09-10
    Here is what Bessemer said about PayPal when they passed: "Rookie team, regulatory nightmare" http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio

    Comment linking /portfolio/antiportfolio

    on “Black Swan Farming”
  4. luisha · 2022-06-30

    Submitted Why I’m Cryptophobic as a story · 228 points

    HN discussion
  5. drinkzima · 2018-10-15
    SaaS companies trade on revenue or free cash flow multiples for the most part: https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/how-much-is-your-saas-compa... https://www.bvp.com/strategy/cloud-computing/index

    Comment linking /strategy/cloud-computing/index

    on “Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid”
  6. bl4k · 2010-10-24

    Submitted BVP Anti-Portfolio as a story · 162 points

    HN discussion
  7. mikeyouse · 2018-10-15
    VCs often call this their "anti-portfolio", some publish their lists. Bessemer's is super impressive: https://www.bvp.com/portfolio/anti-portfolio They were pitched & passed on: AirBnb, Apple, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Intel, Intuit, Paypal, Snapchat, Tesla..

    Comment linking /portfolio/anti-portfolio

    on “Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid”
  8. sethbannon · 2020-09-10

    Submitted Original Bessemer Investment Memos for Shopify, Twilio, LinkedIn, Pinterest as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  9. cs702 · 2013-05-01
    This blog post reminds me of the Bessemer Venture Partners "Anti-Portfolio" -- a list of companies they passed on that subsequently became massively successful, including Apple, Google, and Intel. They explain on their website: "Our reasons for passing on these investments varied. In some cases, we were making a conscious act of generosity to another, younger venture firm, down on their luck, who we felt could reall…

    Comment linking /portfolio/antiportfolio

    on “What a stupid idea”
  10. yarapavan · 2024-06-21

    Submitted Bessemer Venture Partners' Anti-Portfolio as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  11. michael_nielsen · 2013-08-07
    "But while Microsoft did really well and there is thus a temptation to think they would have seemed a great bet a few months in, they probably didn't. Good, but not great. No company, however successful, ever looks more than a pretty good bet a few months in." As an example, Bessemer Venture Partners passed on investing in Apple, Google, Intel, eBay, FedEx, and many other big companies. Their "anti-portfolio" makes…

    Comment linking /portfolio/antiportfolio

    on “How to Convince Investors”
  12. smoody · 2008-04-22

    Submitted A list of deals one VC firm passed on -- Google, eBay, Apple, Intel, Fedex, Paypal, etc. as a story · 79 points

    HN discussion
  13. ig1 · 2014-08-25
    Actual confirmation from BVP who are investors in Twitch: http://www.bvp.com/blog/twitch-time-wild-ride-start-finish

    Comment linking /blog/twitch-time-wild-ride-start-finish

    on “Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official”
  14. jkuria · 2020-06-19

    Submitted Bessemer Ventures Anti-Portfolio as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  15. conorgil145 · 2015-04-01
    Virtru | Washington, DC or REMOTE | Fulltime | Javascript fullstack, Android, iOS, .NET == Who we are == https://virtru.com/how-it-works Everyone has a right to keep their digital content private and secure. We founded Virtru because we believe that exercising that right should be easy and convenient. Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email using your existing email address and existing email provider w…

    Comment linking /portfolio/virtru

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”
  16. kjhughes · 2012-12-05

    Submitted Anti-Portfolio as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  17. conorgil145 · 2015-06-01
    Virtru | Washington, DC or REMOTE (within America) | Fulltime | Javascript fullstack, iOS, .NET == Who we are == https://virtru.com/how-it-works Everyone has a right to keep their digital content private and secure. We founded Virtru because we believe that exercising that right should be easy and convenient. Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email using your existing email address and existing email pr…

    Comment linking /portfolio/virtru

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”
  18. CrocodileStreet · 2015-10-24

    Submitted Anti-Portfolio of Bessemer Venture Partners as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  19. xtracto · 2019-10-17
    I would not sweat it. I was an early employee in a startup that got rejected twice from YC (because it was from Mexico) and nowadays is one of the fastest growing FinTech companies in LatAm and just raised their series B. You know, lots of VCs maintain a good list of anti-portfolio, the most famous being the BVP one ( https://www.bvp.com/anti-portfolio/ ).

    Comment linking /anti-portfolio/

    on “Rejected from YC (Again)”
  20. jaed · 2007-04-09

    Submitted Bessemer's Anti-Portfolio: Missed (great) investment opportunities as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  21. conorgil145 · 2014-12-01
    Virtru | https://virtru.com/how-it-works | Washington, D.C. | Fulltime | Javascript fullstack, Android, iOS, .NET == Who we are == Everyone has a right to keep their digital content private and secure. We founded Virtru because we believe that exercising that right should be easy and convenient. Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email using your existing email address and email provider with the flip of…

    Comment linking /portfolio/virtru

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)”
  22. petenixey · 2013-05-16

    Submitted VC said no? You're in good company: Bessemer Ventures' Anti-Portfolio as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  23. conorgil145 · 2014-11-02
    Virtru | https://virtru.com/how-it-works | Washington, D.C. | Fulltime | Javascript fullstack, Android, iOS, .NET == Who we are == Everyone has a right to keep their digital content private and secure. We founded Virtru because we believe that exercising that right should be easy and convenient. Virtru allows you to send end-to-end encrypted email using your existing email address and email provider with the flip of…

    Comment linking /portfolio/virtru

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)”
  24. jamesjyu · 2012-12-19

    Submitted Developer-Focused Businesses Are Where It's At as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  25. damurdock · 2014-10-29
    I'm reminded a bit of http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio , a collection of companies that applied to Bessemer Venture Partners for VC funds, were denied, and went on to make it big.

    Comment linking /portfolio/antiportfolio

    on “We Make Mistakes”
  26. asmithmd1 · 2010-01-06

    Submitted Bessemer Venture's anti-portfolio, deals they passed on but should have taken as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  27. jeffreyq · 2025-12-23
    Extraordinary win, why not be profitable with strong growth without major dilution? Hope to see you guys being written about in the same fashion as https://www.bvp.com/atlas/bootstrapping-to-100-million-arr-c... down the road.

    Comment linking /atlas/bootstrapping-to-100-million-arr-cloudinary

    on “10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13”
  28. petercooper · 2010-07-14

    Submitted Bessemer Venture Partners' "Anti Portfolio" as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  29. mbesto · 2019-01-08
    Or just stick it in publicly traded cloud companies: https://www.bvp.com/strategy/cloud-computing/index

    Comment linking /strategy/cloud-computing/index

    on “How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor”
  30. jeanlaf · 2021-06-29

    Submitted A thorough analysis on how data infrastructure will evolve in the next few years as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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