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Ariel Cohen

16 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 22, 2020 by Ariel Cohen · said 20 times in 11 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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May 22, 2020
Disclosure
TripActions Shares Cash Reserves and Burn Rates With All Employees
“Employees in trip actions all the time knew how much money do we have? How much we burn? On what do we burn the money?”
Ariel Cohen May 22, 2020 ▶ 17:02 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
May 22, 2020
Assertion Partly supported
TripActions Raised Over $980M From Lightspeed, a16z, and Zeev Ventures
“To date, Ariel has raised over nine hundred and eighty million dollars for TripActions from some of the best in the business, including Lightspeed, Auron's Eve, and Andreessen Horowitz, to name a few.”
Harry Stebbings May 22, 2020 ▶ 0:33 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
May 22, 2020 negative
Insight
Ariel Cohen: Video Conferencing Is Transactional and Eliminates Body Language
“Video conference, conferencing by definition is very transactional, right? You start a meeting, you end the meeting, you don't really know what happens in the five minutes afterwards, the five minutes before that, all of the body language, and so on.”
Ariel Cohen May 22, 2020 ▶ 9:41 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
May 22, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
TripActions Planned for a 24-Month Financial Impact Horizon During COVID
“I've approached it as it's probably a twelve-month crisis, which then you have additional 12 months of implications. So I kind of saw it through a length of 24 months. That was my approach to this crisis.”
Ariel Cohen May 22, 2020 ▶ 12:57 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
May 22, 2020
Disclosure
TripActions Continued Hiring for Sales and R&D Despite COVID Layoffs
“We've done layoffs, but we are still hiring in some departments. We are hiring in the enterprise sales team. We are hiring very selectively in the product R&D team and so on.”
Ariel Cohen May 22, 2020 ▶ 26:53 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
May 22, 2020 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Ariel Cohen Predicts Business Travel Will Rebound Stronger Post-COVID
“I have strong belief that people, once it is done, will get back to travel, to business travel, even in a stronger way.”
Ariel Cohen May 22, 2020 ▶ 22:25 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
May 22, 2020
Disclosure
TripActions Raised Debt in February 2020 to Fund Payments Product
“We closed a certain debt facility to finance our payments product just before COVID in February, actually, and so on, but I'm constantly looking at what we have.”
Ariel Cohen May 22, 2020 ▶ 26:23 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
May 22, 2020
Assertion Supported
Ariel Cohen Sold Previous Startup StreamOnce to Jive After Nine Months
“Started a fairly small startup with my co-founder, Ilan Twig. We sold it back to Jive very fast after nine months”
Ariel Cohen May 22, 2020 ▶ 3:31 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
Feb 8, 2023
Disclosure
Cohen: 28 of 30 investors claimed business travel would never return
“We've talked probably with 30 investors. 28 of them told us that travel will never come back.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 8, 2023 ▶ 21:49 Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 8, 2023 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Cohen: Nobody will use Concur, Amex GBT, or Salesforce by 2028
“In five years from now, nobody is using, going to use Conquer and Emacs. Nobody, by the way, nobody is going to use Salesforce.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 8, 2023 ▶ 24:12 Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 8, 2023
Disclosure
Cohen: Streamonce was sold after nine months with two customers
“Yes, three ones was never, you know, an organization that they needed to really scale. So it was very small. We sold it very early after nine months. We had basically two customers there.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 8, 2023 ▶ 3:33 Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 7, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Cohen: Unmanaged corporate travel is larger than the managed market
“There is the managed side, you know, Amex and Concare. There is the non-managed. Everybody that are doing whatever they want to. It's actually a bigger market, and we think that we have an opportunity and the right to win in both markets, and that's what matte…”
Ariel Cohen Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 9:19 20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
Feb 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2046
Ariel Cohen plans to build Navan for another 20 years
“11 years in this journey, and probably at least for me, another 20, 20 years to go.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 4:36 20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
Feb 7, 2026
What-if
Ariel Cohen: Building Navan required sacrificing early family time
“It wouldn't. It wouldn't. That's the price. That's the price.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 49:24 20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
Feb 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2031
Cohen: Navan will ultimately capture the entire corporate travel market
“And I think as the, as long as we will service our customers and our users, the business will continue to gain share. We're going to take the entire market. I really believe in it.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 36:38 20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
Feb 7, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: Intimidation by incumbent Concur delayed Navan's launch by three years
“For us, travel, we didn't know anything about it, and Conquer back then looked so scary that probably we've delayed that, this journey by two to three years.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 45:41 20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
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