general partner

American  

noun

1. a partner with unlimited liability for the debts of the partnership.

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Etymology

Origin of general partner

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

TCV has had its eye on Neara for a few years, said Muz Ashraf, a London-based general partner at the firm.

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This year, companies are likely to approach AI spending with far more discipline, making winners and losers hard to predict, said Neeraj Agrawal, a general partner at the venture firm Battery Ventures, which isn’t an investor in Anthropic or OpenAI.

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We’ll be posting news highlights and clips from other WSJ Invest Live interviews, such as Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst; Katherine Boyle, general partner of Andreessen Horowitz; and Jon Gray, president and Chief operating officer of Blackstone.

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Sam Lessin, a general partner at investment firm Slow Ventures, recently wrote an etiquette book targeting young tech founders.

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“The technical chasm to cross for each of these neolabs is very substantial and I think that risk is very real,” said Ashu Garg, a general partner at Foundation Capital.

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