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Betaworks

also referred to as: beta works

14 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Oct 12, 2015 by Matt Hartman · said 131 times in 15 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (83), Kate Shillo (10), Erin Glenn (9), Gary Liu (6), Peter Rojas (5), Matt Hartman (5), Nicholas Chirls (3), Andy Weissman (3)

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Oct 12, 2015
Assertion Supported
Product Hunt originally started as an email newsletter
“A bunch of people at Betaworks were on the early on an early version, I think it was an email before it was even a website.”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 12:23 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Oct 12, 2015 positive
Disclosure
Hartman: Betaworks Uses Product Hunt for Deal Sourcing and Investments
“I use product hunt as a way to find investment. We've made investments that were initiated on product hunt.”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 23:36 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Oct 12, 2015
Assertion Supported
Hartman: Betaworks studio built 19 companies, currently hosting 10 startups
“I think we've done about, built about 19 companies from the ground up in various stages, and they, they're, if you come into our office, we have, there's probably a hundred, over a hundred people here. All working at the moment on 10 different companies”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 5:00 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Oct 12, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Betaworks used Twitter network analysis to identify Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover
“I remember when we first started talking to Ryan from product time, one of the things that we had done was this network analysis with our data. I had sat down with our data scientists and started mapping out the networks of this on Twitter. Because it's so pub…”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 11:06 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Oct 12, 2015 positive
Disclosure
Hartman: Betaworks requires weekly recurring user activity for early investments
“That is one of the key things that we look for in our investments is we were very introspective with our early companies that were working with that haven't launched yet. The only thing we have is kind of our view of how we're using the product and how it fits…”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 10:00 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Oct 12, 2015 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hartman predicts Gimlet Media has the potential to become an enormous company
“One is I think that Gimlet could, has the potential to be enormous.”
Matt Hartman Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 21:32 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Oct 12, 2015
Assertion Supported
Betaworks invested in Airbnb, Twitter, and internally built Bitly and Chartbeat
“Matt is Director of Seed Investments at Betaworks, who have invested in the likes of Tumblr, Airbnb, Groupon, and Twitter, and have internally built startups such as Chartbeat, Bitly, and Socialflow.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 12, 2015 ▶ 0:19 20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
Oct 14, 2015 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rojas: Betaworks made 25 to 30 percent of investments on West Coast
“Now, Betaworks has done about 25, maybe 30% of its investments historically have been on the West Coast with the majority of those being pretty much in San Francisco, a handful in Silicon Valley.”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 7:56 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Oct 16, 2015 positive
Opinion
Kuan Huang: Betaworks acts as a co-founder, not just an investor
“So I consider beta works as a, not only just an investor, but also a co-founder.”
Kuan Huang Oct 16, 2015 ▶ 12:18 20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho
Dec 11, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Betaworks' Matt was a daily Product Hunt user before investing
“Matt, for example, he was a super early user, Matt at beta works. And when we started, when I started talking to him, like he already understood the value of it and he was a user and consumed it daily himself.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 24:28 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Feb 26, 2016 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Digg was dismantled and sold to Washington Post, LinkedIn, and Betaworks
“At the end of 2012, what happened was that Dig was really split apart into kind of three different deals. The first was that a lot of the folks, the people, and the tech went to Washington Post, and then the second was that a bunch of the patents went to Linke…”
Gary Liu Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 11:48 20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
Aug 29, 2016 neutral
Assertion Supported
Science Inc. operates as an LLC that co-builds startups for equity
“We co-build companies for equity. We're not, I don't have a fund. Mike and I, we, Our team, we don't not have a fund. We are an operating company. We're an LLC similar to beta works, but we don't have a fund.”
Peter Pham Aug 29, 2016 ▶ 18:44 20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
Mar 6, 2017 bullish
Assertion Supported
Borthwick: Giphy reaches over 100 million daily users
“Because last year, you know, we raised a lot of money for Givy, and Givy's tapping more than a hundred million people every day.”
John Borthwick Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 12:11 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
Sep 11, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
USV repeatedly rejected Betaworks before making co-founder Andy Weissman a partner
“And as a New York company, we wanted what we thought the best and smartest and most empathetic venture investors in New York to invest in our company, which was USV, so we kept pitching them, and they kept saying no. They rejected my company as a business”
Andy Weissman Sep 11, 2017 ▶ 3:06 20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
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