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Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:58 Jason Lemkin They kicked Drift off five months ago. 4 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:37 Jason Lemkin If that's the case here, I mean, drift is probably shrinking based on just looking at how the deal happened, right?
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 55:24 Jason Lemkin And they merged it with drift and gain site just merged with skill jar yesterday.
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Elias Torres Drift is the biggest failure in my life.
- ▶ 17:48 Elias Torres It's, um, you know, my last company, Drift, before we sold to, uh, to, to Vista, private equity, right, it was 800 people.
- ▶ 28:13 Elias Torres You know, we gotta build drift from scratch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:41 Elias Torres It's like, look at Drift we hired 800 people, I, I, it was like I hired coaches, watch me, give me feedback, you know, Elias you should be more carrots here, more this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:45 unnamed speaker He was early founding engineer at Drift.
- ▶ 39:13 Elias Torres They showed me their code, and I go back to the team, and I'm like, by the way, the way that I ran interview at HubSpot and Adrift, everybody, I would help, I have a panel of people interviewing, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:42 Harry Stebbings So, so one of the things I hate when I look at CV's slash LinkedIn's is bounce, as I call them, which is like two years drift, two years HubSpot, two years, two years, two years.
- ▶ 46:16 Elias Torres Just build me another CRM or build me another marketing automation platform at Drift.
- ▶ 51:42 Elias Torres The post-drift days, I spent like, seven, 10 months, you know, traveling and trying to find myself.
- ▶ 1:01:53 Elias Torres I mean, I think Drift was, was a great failure, right? 3 times in the scene
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 48:55 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate your support, and stay tuned for an incredible episode coming on Monday with Elias Torres, former founder of Drift and now founder of Agency.