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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 30:50 Harry Stebbings I totally remember I wasn't allowed eBay when I was young, because my parents were like, no way are you putting credit card details online.
- ▶ 35:07 Matteo Franceschetti I grew up, and I remember when I bought my, um, iPod, uh, with the, it was impossible, and I was buying a second-hand iPod on eBay back then, but because Americans were having this product, and it was not being sold in Europe yet.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:18:14 Rory O'Driscoll And then eBay, you know, we forget it, but eBay is the other quirky way to sell shit from the 19 nineties, and that's, you know, got a 40 or fifty billion dollar market cap. 2 times in the scene
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 49:56 Rory O'Driscoll But going back to the thing, just a comment, the other fun fact, I mean, you just got to note the fun fact, which is Benchmark's best fund, one of the, I shouldn't say the best fund because actually the eBay fund was the best fund in the…
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:03:32 Rory O'Driscoll I'm always, a number of the folks who are involved or connected with the PayPal mafia back in 2002 1001 before they sold to eBay, subsequently went on to be great investors, Peter Thiel most notably, and stuck early money into Stripe.
Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:40 K.R. Shridhar Um, we, before AI came along, we had at least five or six data center customers, and over a period of 10 to 12 years, we've been providing reliable power to edge data centers, other data centers, four megawatts, 10 megawatts, 15 megawatts… 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:03 Jason Lemkin Skype was a aging platform, but they bought it from eBay, right? 3 times in the scene
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 4:08 Luke Harries So we each won an Xbox and immediately put that on eBay.
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:05 Harry Stebbings I remember doing eBay back in the day.
20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
- ▶ 50:16 James Gibson And that's despite it being an area that was already owned by, you know, eBay and, and, and the like.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 28:41 Alex Schultz I like to think we're, we're hopefully we're going to be the sort of Google or Apple or Microsoft of this generation of tech companies and not the Yahoo or eBay.
- ▶ 40:43 Alex Schultz He was my old boss at eBay, but whatever, they've, they've turned over CEO.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21 Jason Lemkin Like this is not the, the bucolic, whether it was ever a bucolic, but the idea of benchmark in the eBay days of a bunch of, uh, gentlemen, uh, investors staying together for 80 years, it's possible that's part of the past.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:05 Jason Lemkin Like I literally could see, uh, I remember back in the day, I mean, Guru, you would actually remember the details, but like, you know, I think eBay bought Skype, but forgot to get the IP, right?
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 5:10 Luke Harries So we each won an Xbox and immediately put that on eBay.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:15 unnamed speaker That the AI disruption is actually benefiting startup incumbents, because they have the data modes, and so it doesn't benefit eBay, you know, because they're slow and big, but it benefits, you know, an incumbent startup that has already… 7 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:19 Jason Wilk They had sold a previous company for like six million dollars, some eBay tools business.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings Outsold eBay. 2 times in the scene
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:38 Nabeel Hyatt But some kind of compounding effect where we think no matter what happens after this year, it's eBay, they just launch a product and 40 years later, the product looked basically exactly the same
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:39 Hussein Kanji eBay was the hot company back then, and then the Googles didn't exist, the sales forces didn't exist.
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:31 Cem Sertoglu An e-commerce company got sold to eBay.
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:22 Vlad Tenev I'm kind of reminded of, uh, I, I was reading the, the Amazon book, and, you know, eBay initially was a much larger company than Amazon, and they kind of thought it was very silly that
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:03 Bret Taylor Um, you know, if you look at, uh, across segments, it's, uh, PayPal, eBay.
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:50 Imran Khan And so, but, you know, the story was positioned very simply that, hey, it's the China consumer play, and they are the eBay plus Amazon plus PayPal of China.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:16 Kevin Hartz Um, you know, but you would think, if I'd held it longer, because what happened is that eBay acquired it, and then eBay had a run in the early 2000. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:53 Harry Stebbings Yeah, it was the gamified version of, like, eBay in a really cool way.
- ▶ 52:04 Kevin Hartz And then when, ah, the day that acquisition of PayPal by eBay was announced,
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:39 Harry Stebbings They always sold Nokia mobile phones on eBay.
- ▶ 32:45 Pat Grady And Marty Abbott was a guy who used to run technical ops for eBay.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:02 Michael Eisenberg And then there was pets.com and pets.com.com and pets.com.com.com because there's an incredible gold rush, but the internet, eBay, Amazon, et cetera, turned out to be incredible companies.
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:12 Reid Hoffman I mean, like, we had, you know, at PayPal, we had eBay trying to shut us down, and that was where all our volume was.
- ▶ 38:17 Reid Hoffman They're like, go make sure eBay can't kick us off their platform.
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:40 Matt Lerner And by that, I mean, like, I could go back and say, you know, there are five or six things, obviously, before my time getting on eBay, uh, referral bonuses and, you know, network effects growth, getting early, getting engaged with web…
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:33 Chris Dixon I started an AI company in 2008, and I, if you told me, and I sold it to eBay in 2011, machine learning company called Hunch, I, I was obviously too early, um, but eventually it worked.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:23 Thomas Plantenga So they were asking something in the tune of 15 to 20% seller fee, which is like the standard thing that eBay and Poshmark were doing for years,
- ▶ 14:36 Alex Taussig So then if you believe that, then you start to talk about companies, you know, if you look at regions around the world that have a dominant marketplace, including the U S um, with eBay back in the day,
- ▶ 1:07:09 Alex Taussig You know, the business like eBay has a great EBITDA margin.
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:55 Harry Stebbings They did beanie babes on eBay, something.
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:36 Davis Smith One of the ideas that came to my head was, uh, you know, I started selling dive gear, scuba gear on eBay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:04 Davis Smith What we decided to do is when we listed them on eBay, we said, 10 week lead time, custom made, hardwood pool table, 10 weeks.
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:04 Ryan Petersen It's like 200 dollars on eBay.
Harry debates Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: "Should startups target niche markets?" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:59 Matthew Prince So, so the eBay example, you're like eBay started with Beanie Babies. 2 times in the scene
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:25 Matthieu Rouif Gary V mentioned us, uh, we got a few eBay influencers that talked about us, and we got viral, like a very fast growth.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:13 Matthew Prince So, so the eBay example, you're like eBay started with Beanie Babies. 2 times in the scene
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:58 Scott Farquhar Escape and Google and eBay and PayPal and so forth.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:59 Guillermo Rauch The eBay of Latin America, Mercado Libre had kicked off a revenue sharing program.
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Suchit Dash eBay at the time owned PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings Um, my first job was selling mobile phones on eBay.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:04 Akin Babayigit Um, and you know, I mean, it was spun off from eBay, acquired by this investor consortium, sold it to Microsoft for, I think, 8.1 billion dollars.
- ▶ 1:37:56 Harry Stebbings I remember, uh, buying and selling Nokia phones, uh, between different eBay sellers and buyers.
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:29 David Marcus Uh, but, uh, but John Donohoe, who was, uh, leading, uh, eBay at the time that this was at the time where PayPal was still part of eBay asked me to actually take over the leadership role at, at PayPal, which, uh, was, uh, an insane steep… 2 times in the scene
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:28 Joost de Valk I was working for Alex doing consulting for Facebook and, and, and doing consulting for eBay and getting companies like that.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings Um, but how did you go from paper aeroplanes first to eBay? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings So, then eBay, obviously, you joined eBay. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:14 Alex Schultz So we really understood what was driving our growth, and the first deep insight, and this was Danny Ferrante did it for us, I think he brought it from Yahoo, and we had something like it at eBay, but it wasn't as advanced.
- ▶ 7:31 Alex Schultz Well, I'll go, I'll go back to eBay for this one. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:28 Alex Schultz So placing a bid is way higher up the funnel for eBay than actually having bought the action and having it been received and having delivered feedback.
- ▶ 40:02 Alex Schultz I learned from my bettas at eBay.
- ▶ 46:09 Alex Schultz So I came out and then, then I went to work and eBay, I mean, look, Meg Whitman went and campaigned on banning gay marriage in California. 4 times in the scene
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:19 Jeff Jordan And so, um, I, I, I looked at eBay when he, the, Jeff Skoll wrote the business plan for eBay with Pierre. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:23 Jeff Jordan That was the beginning of eBay motors.
- ▶ 19:37 Jeff Jordan So eBay became a mechanism for that, for computers, for sporting goods, for, you know, and so the most successful growth strategy we had back in the day was just look what people were listing.
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13 Jeff Jordan Well, you know, when, um, the, the big, big job upgrade for me was, uh, when I went to eBay and got to manage ebay.com. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 Jeff Jordan And so, um, I, I, I looked at eBay when he, the, Jeff Skoll wrote the business plan for eBay with Pierre. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:21 Jeff Jordan That was the beginning of eBay motors.
- ▶ 49:42 Jeff Jordan You know, at eBay, we had this phrase, people are basically good. 2 times in the scene
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:39 Marty Cagan I got to meet the founder of eBay, Pierre Omajar. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:13 Marty Cagan It was the one time in my career that I was actually, because the customers were not developers. 4 times in the scene
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:54 Sujay Jaswa And so I, I would say that this, you know, if, if PayPal sold to eBay for fifty billion, I doubt the intensity and commitment to pursuing startups would have stayed that, would have been as high for as many of them.
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 21:34 Sujay Jaswa If PayPal sold to eBay for fifty billion, I doubt the intensity and commitment to pursuing startups would have stayed that, would have been as high for as many of them.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:55 Wesley Chan Like, you know, when they launched it, like invites only, they were selling on eBay for thousands of dollars to get access to Gmail.
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:36 Jim Lanzone You know, I remember eBay had a lot of people during the time, but they, they lacked EQ.
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:49 Sonali De Rycker Because of the trillions raised, there was that all that infrastructure laid down, which means that the Amazons and the Ebays could do well, and then, then at one point it was started, and then, you know, the rest, you know.
Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Zhenya Loginov Larger companies like eBay and then Dropbox and then segment and, you know,
HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:03 Dharmesh Shah I'm going to allow these transactions that weren't happening before on eBay, I'm LinkedIn, whatever it is, right?
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:45 Fabrice Grinda So when I built my first company, I was 23, back in 98, it was an eBay of Europe called Auckland.
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 3:47 Fabrice Grinda So when I built my first company, I was 23, back in 98, I was an eBay of Europe called Auckland.
20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- ▶ 5:57 Devin Finzer You can go and like put it for sale on eBay.
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter
- ▶ 7:39 Fidji Simo You know, I was working at eBay for three years, and then I applied to Facebook.
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- ▶ 4:23 Nicolas Szekasy We brought eBay as an investor, and as a reminder, eBay in 2002 1001 was the equivalent of Amazon in 2021. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 31:56 Jay Simons She is just steeped in decades of operating experience from Intuit and eBay and has been a great independent director on lots of incredible boards.
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings He also led special projects for the CEO and CFO at eBay, and began his career at McKinsey & Company.
20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
- ▶ 23:27 Marcos Galperin This was with eBay. 8 times in the scene
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings He was also one of the early employees at Half.com, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of business development, media, and entertainment roles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:34 Chris Fralic We were acquired by eBay, so I spent a lot of time in e-commerce, person-to-person e-commerce, and really felt like I knew it very well, and remember, we had the opportunity to look at Etsy, and I was almost dismissive, or I just thought… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Now, Peter is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the great venture firms of the last three decades, with a portfolio including the likes of Snap, Twitter, eBay, New Relics,
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 8:01 Jeremy Levine But ePinions ultimately merged with another company called DealTime, and then eBay acquired it, and so that never materials.
- ▶ 33:07 Jeremy Levine eBay was around and Yahoo was around.
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Melio, Matan was head of PayPal Consumer Product Center, and before that was a head of product and GM at eBay in their Israel Innovation Center.
- ▶ 25:08 Matan Bar This is not something that I had experience with, you know, at PayPal or eBay or at my first startup that got acquired by eBay. 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
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Prior to Etsy, though, Josh served as president of consumer products and services at American Express, who is also the CEO of Skype and CEO of shopping.com, and he also held various executive roles at eBay.
- ▶ 7:48 Josh Silverman You know, I mean, when they asked me to run Skype, I was at eBay.
- ▶ 22:08 Josh Silverman When I took over at Skype, Meg Whitman was the CEO of eBay, which owned Skype at the time, and she had sort of talked a lot about Skype.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings High yield bonds, and convertible securities, and joining Howard, who better to have than the one and only Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes…
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and wow, I'm so excited for the show today, joined by a master of marketplaces, one of my favourite writers in the venture space also, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Sarah…
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 3:41 Roelof Botha At the time, PayPal got acquired by eBay in 2002.
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 16:11 George Zachary First off, I met David right after PayPal was acquired by eBay.
- ▶ 25:47 George Zachary A friend of mine was the co-founder of eBay.
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