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▶ 16:34 · $TOST · Why Now is the Best Time to Buy Public Software Companies
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Invest Like The Best

Why Now is the Best Time to Buy Public Software Companies

2026-03-24 · 6 company · 4 thematic
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5 bull1 bear0 neu
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mitchell green

Founder and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital, a growth-equity firm. He has led investments in companies including Alibaba, Asana, ByteDance, and Grafana.

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“in Toast, which is one of our biggest investments, which we put like 12% of our fund three into... before the IPO we had sold 180 million bucks. We think we'd make like 350 to 400 in it total... We sold like in the secondary markets like l…”
—mitchell green
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