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Barry Eggers on How Lightspeed Uses Learning Investments to Find the Next Big Thing

Barry Eggers on How Lightspeed Uses Learning Investments to Find the Next Big Thing

Update: 2025-10-24
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5: How can venture investors consistently identify the next breakout market?

Barry Eggers, Founding Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, reveals the firm’s thesis-driven approach to venture capital of using early “learning investments” to test conviction, then scaling fast into emerging markets before the crowd arrives.

In this episode, Barry shares insights from Lightspeed’s foundational bets in enterprise tech, Snap’s billion-dollar rise, and how the firm built multi-company portfolios around early themes like flash storage and analytics.
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Barry Eggers on How Lightspeed Uses Learning Investments to Find the Next Big Thing

Barry Eggers on How Lightspeed Uses Learning Investments to Find the Next Big Thing

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