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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 19:40 Julien Bek I, I wasn't there, but I heard the Airbnb story multiple times over, where, um, I think that Brian Chesky had been turned down by most other firms, and, um, 2 times in the scene
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 52:12 Harry Stebbings And like, don't get me wrong, Airbnb is an amazing business.
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:01 Rory O'Driscoll Airbnb did with regulation. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:33 Jason Lemkin Sorry Airbnb is still below its IPO price.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:01 Harry Stebbings Um, so we have a billion, like, is that like sales for Airbnb and then they get 20% of that?
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:27 unnamed speaker Remember the Airbnb was the sharing economy, and Uber was the, you remember the sharing economy?
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:04 Anish Acharya But something like an Airbnb, you know, you can have all the vibe coding in the world. 2 times in the scene
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:32 Harry Stebbings Was this when you were, I got told this from Pat, you were like in an Airbnb? 3 times in the scene
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:29 Alex Rampell Brian Chesky at Airbnb studied everything about, you know, bed and breakfast and hotel industry in the 1800.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:41 Matt Fitzpatrick I actually think the dynamic, again, why I would use Uber and Lyft, you could use, um, you could use Airbnb and VRBO as the same context is, I don't think people, I don't think experts go on five platforms, right?
- ▶ 50:45 Harry Stebbings How is that different than booking on Airbnb, where I get my take from 2 times in the scene
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:02 Tarek Mansour Like when you see this shift in consumer behavior, I mean, you've seen it in Airbnb with the host and Uber with riders.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 18:17 Max Altman If we can even get two or three percent of the next DoorDash or Airbnb, we're in great shape.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:59 Rory O'Driscoll The Airbnb round that Sequoia did was compellingly cheap.
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:47 Rory O'Driscoll Um, so yeah, biggest deal ever, but you know, I got to say Silver Lake are part of this and they've been astonishingly smart at the decisions they've made, you know, from Airbnb to I think the real killer is the Dell EMC acquisition where…
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:40 Harry Stebbings I always remember Brian Seaman teaching me that, um, capital concentration limits are the enemy of great venture returns, and that's why they have 33% of their fund in Airbnb.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 8:49 Alex Schultz The general company, in my experience, every company, whether you talk Amazon, whether you talk Google, whether you talk Meta, whether you talk Airbnb, they, as employees, tend to be power users of the product, and they, by nature,…
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 25:52 Max Junestrand And we get so excited, we book this like really nice Airbnb,
- ▶ 29:13 unnamed speaker I go to SF, I lock myself in this nice Airbnb that we've had, and I think it went something like, I arrive on a Tuesday, on the Wednesday I sit down with Gustav, and he tells me, Max, I think you guys should go and raise like a bigger…
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:59 unnamed speaker Are stranded, because all those price targets, like the Airbnb price targets, ain't ever going to happen now.
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:50 Miles Dieffenbach And you look at some of the, the most incredible companies that have ever come out of the venture asset class, Airbnb, Uber, SpaceX, Amazon, all struggled mightily to raise their seed round.
- ▶ 24:26 Miles Dieffenbach And they're going to drive me some same with Airbnb.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:45 unnamed speaker Oh my God, this guy was a seed investor, Airbnb and Stripe.
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:52 Harry Stebbings And that's why we did 33% into Airbnb.
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:22 Johannes Reck At the time, there was a small team there with Jeff Hausenboldt, Ted Feig, Andrew Sloto, um, some of which have worked at Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:55 Harry Stebbings The dude is well known for passing on Airbnb, which he very humbly always talks about.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:55 Larry Aschebrook Um, we had a new baby and we were staying in an Airbnb that we rented, um, which became a great investment for us later on.
- ▶ 41:03 unnamed speaker Oh yeah, Airbnb goes public, make a three X. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:15 Larry Aschebrook You know, the, the, the high flyers, you have, um, companies like Fanatics, Wiz, um, Databricks, um, uh, Turo, the Airbnb of cars, um, like Monzo, companies like that, where there's, you've already decided those are your core positions,…
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 1:19:21 Matthew Pohlson Even Airbnb and Groupon at the time tried to do, but that machine is why we were able to beat them, um, and so we learned watching that from him.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:40 Severin Hacker You know, like it could be Airbnb or Uber at the time.
- ▶ 1:16:10 Severin Hacker Um, by the way, in, you know, for example, in, in, in Uber's case and, and Airbnb, there's a lot of local regulations.
- ▶ 1:27:44 Severin Hacker You know, Facebook got that one, or Uber, Airbnb, they probably got some of those.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:25 unnamed speaker You can get, you can get food delivery in 15 minutes, groceries, you can get anything on Amazon, you can get Uber, Airbnb, your life is amazing.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39 Peter Singlehurst You know, businesses like Airbnb and Spotify and, uh, and Tom and Mark and James, like they kind of had their hands full looking after these tens of billions of dollars of our clients capital.
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:05 Adarsh Hiremath Uh, the marketplaces and companies like Meta, you know, and Airbnb,
- ▶ 32:00 Adarsh Hiremath So one is the network effect of a marketplace that you might see in a labor marketplace like Uber, uh, or a marketplace like Airbnb, where
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:12 Max Levchin I love Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:45 Shervin Pishevar Airbnb was on the list.
- ▶ 18:28 Shervin Pishevar And investing in the future Travis's, or the future Elon's, or, you know, invested in Airbnb and got to see Brian early on.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:45 Mike Maples You know, it's like when I passed on Airbnb, or, um, you know, what, what's another one we passed on, we, we would have done really well. 3 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:28 Reid Hoffman Well, um, when I did the Series A of Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:33 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Bitcoin, you mentioned Airbnb series A. 3 times in the scene
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:28 Klaus Hommels At the time when I invested in, um, in Airbnb, it was also very, very early.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:51 Dan Fougere Now, some of those really small accounts had weird names like Airbnb or Zendesk that nobody ever heard of until everybody heard of them.
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:29 Markus Villig So for example, you can contrast this to Airbnb.
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings Um, but moving the potatoes forward, yeah, before Linear, you worked at Airbnb and you worked at Coinbase, two of the most transformative kind of product orgs in the business.
- ▶ 4:07 Karri Saarinen And I think with Airbnb is much more about that.
- ▶ 7:21 Karri Saarinen I think the reason for that is that I don't, my backgrounds in, in design and for example, Airbnb and Coinbase, they weren't very like go to market driven companies.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:44 Harry Stebbings But if it was Airbnb, I'd probably.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:55 AJ Tennant Now, I had relationships with Airbnb and Uber, and networked in, in a warm intro way, and, um, you know, funny, funny story, like the, the head of procurement at Uber, who I was like, calling, she's like, AJ, we're not a customer of Glean.
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:26 Phil Carter So Uber, Airbnb, companies that are like ubiquitous at this point in the, the American tech mindset.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39 Scott Gorlick So, this was 2011, 2012, and, you know, I was going out and meeting companies like Airbnb, Square, fairly early, along with, like, 50 other companies.
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:26 Harry Stebbings People often discredit Uber for X, Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:42 David Cahn and you think of Brian Chesky at Airbnb, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:32 David Cahn I hope that I can imbibe a lot of information from people and I'm going to work hard every day because every day I know every founder I meet, this could be the company that is the, the, my YouTube, my Instagram, my Airbnb, my DoorDash.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:41 Delian Asparouhov It happens to be that, you know, we picked up on that trend and saw that there was going to be upcoming tailwinds far ahead of anybody else, but we also invested in Airbnb, Affirm, et cetera.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:53 Harry Stebbings Why did you do Airbnb? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:57 Kevin Hartz In Airbnb, there was almost zero secondary.
- ▶ 21:45 Kevin Hartz I love how Sequoia says, we're only as good as our next investment, and, you know, that's the mindset, is you just can't say, oh, back in Airbnb and Pinterest, and, uh, what is that?
- ▶ 32:09 Harry Stebbings If I told you Airbnb is the size that it is today, you'd be like, never expected that.
- ▶ 37:25 Kevin Hartz Little known secret is, um, Keith, Javed and I gave an exploding term sheet to Airbnb, and Paul Graham, uh, said no bueno, and teed off on us.
- ▶ 41:17 Harry Stebbings You've got Airbnb one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:27 Kevin Hartz Daniel Ek, and rolled it all into Airbnb at the two and a half billion. 4 times in the scene
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:09 Pedro Franceschi from brian's playbook at airbnb so the realization here is so there was this feeling that i had probably in
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:03 Val Scholz Um, I actually think that if you look at Uber, Airbnb, Meta, they don't use events, or at least not in the early days.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:39 Danny Rimer One is Spotify, another one is Snap, another one's Airbnb, another one's LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:43 Danny Rimer I mean, you know, when one of the big lessons on Airbnb was when we were evaluating it, we were thinking, how many hotel rooms is Airbnb going to cannibalize? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 Danny Rimer Really, the exception to the rule would be Apple, and probably Airbnb, and I'm, and I scratch my head to try and think of others.
- ▶ 48:34 Danny Rimer The recommendation that I always give new partners who join, like Vlad from Airbnb just joined us.
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:35 Reid Hoffman Like, for example, if you said, you know, the first X thousand stays at Airbnb, the operating margins were terrible, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:37 Reid Hoffman You know, early Airbnb, where people said, that's nuts, no one's gonna ever rent a room from some other human being.
- ▶ 36:25 Reid Hoffman You know, at PayPal, having done this at LinkedIn, having done this at Airbnb, having done, like, like all of this stuff, it's always a chaotic hot mess. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:34 Harry Stebbings When we look at a lot of those, when you look at Airbnb, it was like, I cannot imagine someone being in my home. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:40 Harry Stebbings About Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:44 Matt Lerner I mean, 2009 mobile apps, you know, and Airbnb, and Uber, and Stripe, and like so many amazing companies were getting born, so that was a huge one, and then yeah, certainly dot com, one dot o, wherever like people were first building these…
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:36 Jiaona Zhang Like imagine Airbnb.
- ▶ 47:01 Jiaona Zhang There are real engineering teams for the many past years that I've been at, like an Airbnb, where it's like, you are
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:58 Dan Siroker Even some of the stories like Airbnb that people have thought of as this, like, it took for years and years in perseverance.
- ▶ 1:02:55 Dan Siroker You know, I think Coinbase might've been similar because, you know, Brian had seen things at Airbnb or, you know, and so you want somebody who both firsthand saw that problem and maybe felt it themselves.
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:48 Rujul Zaparde So we had, you know, we, we actually met, we both worked together at Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:59 Rujul Zaparde Uh, but yeah, I mean, look, we both for Lou and me, I mean, we came from consumer, we came from Airbnb, we worked on consumer companies in the past.
- ▶ 34:13 Rujul Zaparde Uh, and I remember that hour, this was in 2012, I think, uh, he was telling me, he was like, hey, there's this thing called Airbnb, and, you know, people are sharing their houses with each other.
- ▶ 36:33 Rujul Zaparde Two, you know, um, I think you don't, this is something that, uh, I think I learned later at Airbnb, but 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:02 Harry Stebbings Uh, my second question to you is, I spoke to Ali Raoghani, and he said to me to, to double click on what you just said there, which is the lessons learned from Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:19 Rujul Zaparde Brian Chesky, uh, you know, CEO of Airbnb, just how the level of attention to detail, uh, when it comes to the Airbnb product, uh, I mean, I, you know, you remember, remember design reviews, uh, where to his credit, he would be able to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:59 Rujul Zaparde I mean, when, when Lou and I were at Airbnb and we at, at different points in time, we both worked on search. 2 times in the scene
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:28 Vickie Peng Um, so the one great example I use that because, you know, most of us are customers of this company is Airbnb. 4 times in the scene
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:49 Kevin Ryan And so, you know, the guys from Airbnb, did they come from the hotel industry?
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:57 Mario Schlosser I remember asking, um, the, the COO of Airbnb that, and, and, and she was telling me, uh, oh, we change it all the time, which was very relieving to hear, because they had also gone through the same different iterations of weekly… 2 times in the scene
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:54 Trae Stephens Uh, you know, Spotify, Stripe, Airbnb, Palantir, SpaceX, Andrel, um, stem centric.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:48 Thomas Plantenga You pay my Airbnbs and you pay my food and let's, and let me help you execute on it.
- ▶ 1:08:08 Alex Taussig And so you go like in marketplaces, like, is this business potentially like an Airbnb?
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:04 Harry Stebbings And we need, we need an Airbnb in that fund as well.
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:20 Sam Corcos He had an extra bedroom in his Airbnb.
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:25 Mike Shebat He's been around the table with countless successful companies, like you mentioned, like Airbnb, DoorDash, a lot of them very operational, similar to Traba, Fair, Ramp, plenty of them.
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