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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?