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Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:35 Edwin Chen But our human data system at the time was literally just two people we'd hired off of Craigslist working nine to five.
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:56 George Sivulka That was an old, like, beat up, 2006 Audi convertible that I had, like, fixed up from Craigslist and bought for 4000 dollars at three in the morning and drank a bunch of coffee, like 18 cups of coffee, like a five hour energy, like all the…
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:27 Scott Gorlick We were doing a little bit on Craigslist.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:33 Thomas Plantenga But then in Europe, you had all these free classifieds where you could meet on the streets like Greg's list practically, and that's big in Europe.
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:44 Nick Tomaino Um, and there was so much demand that tickets were selling, um, on Craigslist for, uh, like four times the price that we were selling them for.
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:39 Adam Grenier And so literally like every other week we'd be like, okay, we were just spending time with our ops team and they post stuff on Craigslist to get drivers to show up at our office to sign up. 2 times in the scene
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:45 Jeff Jordan So, I mean, it's, uh, I mean, if you, if you literally go, you know, that famous graphic, the internet meme with here's Craigslist homepage, and here are all the categories, 2 times in the scene
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:17 Harry Stebbings When we spoke before about, uh, marketplaces, you said that you liked or had interesting kind of unbundling craigslist with blue collar jobs, home services, rentals, and I respectfully read this and thought I must be an idiot, but why? 2 times in the scene
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:35 Oana Olteanu My first experience in the US was finding a room to rent on Craigslist, and I ended up living in the house of the
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:34 Brad Gerstner So seeing through that lens, Airbnb, which was making sense out of all the world's long tail inventory, right, in the way that Craigslist had done, for all properties that were not on bookie.com, like it actually fit, it wasn't a new…
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 11:26 Jason Lemkin But hiring that person over Craigslist, right, or over LinkedIn or whatever, that's the one that fails.
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 4:00 Grant LaFontaine We were going to start a better full service Craigslist.
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- ▶ 3:47 Elena Verna I found my first tech job on Craigslist listing. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 8:40 Ann Miura-Ko Well, we looked at Craigslist and people are trying out different longer routes. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 15:07 Josh Silverman You know, earlier in my career, I had the privilege of running a company called Marktplatz in the Netherlands, which was sort of the Craigslist of the Netherlands, but bigger and more successful.
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 4:54 Kulveer Taggar Was taking weeks, like, you know, trying to get the home rent ready, dealing with Craigslist, figuring out contracts, taking out photos and doing the repairs.
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 16:57 James Currier It's not just Facebook and eBay that have these network Craigslist that have these network effects.
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 24:04 Aaron VanDevender If you think about like where, where a lot of that value to people has come from, it's from companies like Lyft, like Postmates, a Craigslist, Amazon Prime, you know, Tinder, you
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 4:12 Wayne Chang So with recruiters, what I hear a lot with other founders is that they would spend 40 to 60% of their time just trying to recruit the team, trying to look through the resumes, go on Craigslist, things like that.
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 3:44 Brad Hargreaves They would go on to Craigslist and find other roommates to live with, and they would rent a bedroom, not an apartment.
- ▶ 8:38 Brad Hargreaves Keep in mind, they can find a much cheaper place on Craigslist, but because it's a great community, it's super convenient, so when they move in, everything is taken care of.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 18:13 Josh Breinlinger If somebody's using Craigslist to hire, and they're using Indeed to hire, and they're using your other marketplace to hire freelancers as well, you don't really have that great lock-in yet.
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 3:32 Melody McCloskey Well, I found my first engineer by posting an ad on Craigslist and
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 2:47 unnamed speaker A side project at a time, which was to just launch a simple Craigslist type service for students at our university to buy and sell things to each other.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 21:07 Mamoon Hamid Like, they will become the property manager for, for people who own homes, and it will become the place, like, the Craigslist for people who want to find a home.
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 3:51 Moisey Uretsky And, uh, Jeff, our technical co-founder basically applied for assist admin possession via Craigslist, uh, to work at server stack.
20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 16:44 Annie Kadavy Craigslist, right, is like the ultimate example. 2 times in the scene
20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures
- ▶ 7:49 Boris Wertz And, and so, you know, there's this famous chart of looking at all the, the Greg's categories and seeing like how people have basically built vertical marketplaces around it. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
- ▶ 12:11 Patricia Nakache Craigslist, which is free, um, but is, but you need to do quite a bit of work, um, in order to vet the people that approach you on Craigslist. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 28:44 Fabrice Grinda Marketplaces, um, have been evolving from these horizontal listing models where, um, the sites, you know, a Craigslist type site, if you want, where they, they, they're multi-category people put in what they have available and like other…