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Dominik Richter: You Only Have Two Options With VC Funding | E1089 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:11 Harry Stebbings And you might be really bored of answering this and it's probably a shit question, but you know, we look at like a blue apron of the world, a very famous brand name that obviously did not end the way that investors wanted it to. 2 times in the scene
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:33 Phin Barnes And I think I did a lot of that bank simple, um, you know, birch box, even blue apron, I think were, were those things.
Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:49 Mike Salguero It was like Blue Apron, Plated, you know, uh, Green Chef, Hello Fred, like all of them, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:40 Mike Salguero Blue Apron used to force people to receive the box before they canceled.
- ▶ 57:30 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you then, what have, like, when we look at the cohort of companies that you are with, your Blue Aprons, your HelloFresh's, all of these big names, what did they do wrong? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:22 Mike Salguero The big thing that happened was, so we started again, we started in 2015 at that time, blue apron had raised like a two billion dollar valuation round. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Zatco was an incredibly successful and prolific angel in the past, with a portfolio including the likes of Rig Up, Row, Colour, Blue Apron, and Plaid, to name a few.
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 11:47 Josh Kopelman Downstream rounds, and if you look at some of the companies that have gone public, whether it's Blue Apron or On Deck, we did follow on materially, which did produce stronger returns.
- ▶ 30:29 Josh Kopelman So when I first got introduced to Matt Salzberg at Blue Apron, well, the company was in New York.
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 6:45 Harry Stebbings You cannot blame me for that, but I do want to dive in today straight away and touch on the theme of competition, because meal delivery is a space where everyone seems to have an opinion, justified or not, with Blue Apron's very public…
20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- ▶ 30:43 Alex Taussig You had birch box blue apron in a prior year. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 9:29 Jason Calacanis I think the people who are paying high valuations for companies are, you know, if you look at something like Blue Apron, which is a fine company with a very innovative product, they, they had to lower their price for their IPM. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Startups & VCs Can Build Relationships with Potential Corporate Acquirers? The Challenge Of Operating Both A B2B & B2C Business Model & Why Fundraising Is The One Element Founders Cannot Control with Gautam Gupta, Founder & CEO @ NatureBox
- ▶ 20:39 Gautam Gupta They want more convenient options, as you can see with something like a blue apron.
20VC: How AI Can Enhance Not Replace Humans? What Will Differentiate Between The Winners & The Losers In AI? Why AGI Is Further Away Than We Think with Nitesh Banta, Founder & CEO @ B12
- ▶ 7:43 Nitesh Banta And even more broadly, like Blue Apron was started by a former investor, Wealthfront, Bond Street.