Bing Gordon
9 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 20, 2017 by Mark Pincus · said 27 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (14), Severin Hacker (4), Joe Fernandez (4), Luis von Ahn (2)
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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2025 5 mentions in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 15 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- 20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- 20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
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2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- 20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Bing Gordon, oldest first
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 27, 2017
Gordon: Only execute M&A deals if willing to pay double
“My math is never do a merger and acquisition deal if you wouldn't pay double. Because the ones that work, basically a year later, they're twice as valuable as you thought they were. And the ones that don't work, the amount you spend probably doesn't matter.”
Nov 27, 2017
Gordon: Amazon AWS, Kindle, and Prime were shaped in key board meetings
“I remember the board meeting on Amazon where we first talked About what become Amazon Web Services, AWS. I remember the first time, I remember a series of meetings that led to the presentation of Kindle. I remember a series of meetings that led to the presenta…”
Nov 27, 2017
Gordon: Analytical strategy documents disable the creative process
“The way to hand off strategies to creative people is Was not to write an analytical doc. He said his secret was to write a short story. So I've taken that forever that I try to get creative people engaged in primary research, basically see customers that if I …”
Nov 27, 2017 negative
Nov 27, 2017
Nov 27, 2017
Gordon: Overpaying by 2x cuts a VC fund's at-bats in half
“The negative about that is most of the things that you think you're big game hunting for don't work out, and if you can do 30 investments in a fund and you overpay by double, and there's x percent are gonna be big winners, now you've cut your at-bats in half.”
Nov 27, 2017
May 19, 2025 positive
Hacker: Bing Gordon is a rare product-obsessed VC
“Bing is actually great. You know, Bing is, is, is a rare type of investor because he is very product minded. You know, he uses the product and he gives us a lot of feedback on the product. He's obsessed with product. Most investors are more, you know, they're …”