Everett Randle
Everett Randle is a General Partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He joined Benchmark in 2025 after previously serving as a partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he led investments in companies including Anthropic, Glean, and Chainguard. He is known for his 2021 essay "Playing Different Games," which analyzed Tiger Global's venture capital strategy, and for introducing the "Operating Yield" metric for evaluating SaaS businesses in 2023.
“It's a complete and utter failure on our part... You can't be in a situation where you have a chance to make a 30X on scale of capital. If you want to claim that you're one of the best firms in the Valley and you have a chance to make a 30X on scaled capital in four or five years, and you don't do that, that's always a failure”
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