“By around 9.30 that morning, he had assembled the indications of interest for approximately $6 billion.”

Marc Stad · Buyers and Builders · Marc Stad: From $0 to $40 Billion (The Extraordinary Story of Dragoneer's Founder)

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At 3 a.m. in California, called sovereign-wealth funds in Asia, then General Atlantic, Tiger and TPG in New York to solicit indications of interest for a secondary Uber transaction

$6 billion of indications of interest assembled by 9:30 a.m.

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