Ben Silbermann
2 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 20, 2018 by Fritz Lanman · said 43 times in 11 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (15), Scott Belsky (4), Casey Winters (4), Shervin Pishevar (3), Sarah Tavel (3), Shishir Mehrotra (2), Sahil Lavingia (2), Jeremy Levine (2)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 18 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
- 20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- 20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 5 mentions in 1 episode
2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- 20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Ben Silbermann, oldest first
Jul 20, 2018 positive
Lanman invested in Pinterest after seeing his wife use it for weddings
“Pinterest is another example where I had never been using catalogs and stuff. I'd collected butterflies as a kid and done some of these things that I think work well in terms of this digital form of Pinterest, but really it was only until I went to my wife and…”
Aug 24, 2020 positive
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann rejected almost every early feature proposal
“Ben was so adamant every time basically I suggested we should build something new, it was rejected. And he was so good about staying true to this sort of the core mission of the company, keeping the product incredibly simple, hiring very, very carefully.”