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20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Before Venture, Lowe was an operator, enjoying exact roles at Zynga, Nike, and eBay, to name a few.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings David started his career in tech as the first product leader and COO at PayPal, growing payment volume from nought to five hundred million dollars per month, leading to their 1.5 billion dollar acquisition by eBay.
20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp
- ▶ 13:27 Alyssa Ravasio Kind of more similar to an eBay or an Airbnb.
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings And before Twitch, Emmett co-founded Kiko, a company he later sold on eBay for six figures.
- ▶ 5:21 Harry Stebbings He said, how did you come to sell the company on eBay, and how did you end up making a decent amount of money from it? 6 times in the scene
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 28:07 David Tisch So a site like Shopify is able to do that in e-com sites back in the day, like eBay were able to do that before Shopify.
20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings One of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Now, Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 3:54 Justin Kan And we got into Y Combinator because of that, which kind of set me off on my start career, kind of run through it really quickly, but eventually that company failed and we desperately sold it on eBay.
20VC: Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process and What Excites Softbank Most In Opportunities Today
- ▶ 29:28 Jeff Housenbold You know, it's something I learned growing up, but also something that Pierre Mididar, the founder of eBay, kind of instilled in all of us in the early days of eBay's formation, is that people are inherently good, and if you believe that,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 12:47 Sarah Smith And then also we have that rise of Airbnb, WeWork, Uber, even eBay, I would say has taught us that we're
20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- ▶ 21:36 Scott Belsky It was a company that was recently repurchased from eBay by Garrett Camp, the original founder, who had sold it and then bought it back and made it a private company again.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 4:23 Dennis Mortensen I think it's one of those things, and it's gonna sound like that eBay story, which is kind of not really true, whether they started the whole thing based on that sort of pest dispensers, but you know what?
20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Previously, Maynard was chairman of the board of Yahoo, he was the CEO of LiveOps, and COO of eBay.
- ▶ 11:21 Harry Stebbings President of eBay, and so I'd love to hear your thoughts.
- ▶ 14:40 Maynard Webb For example, when I joined eBay, I think we had 300 people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:52 Maynard Webb And so, for example, when we were looking to buy Skype at eBay, we used that analogy to say, okay, if it doesn't work, is it going to hit us above the waterline where it's going to be ugly and we're going to have to fix it, but it's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 Maynard Webb We had spent a year and a half by this time at eBay, and things were doing so much better, and I was wondering if I was even needed anymore.
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm thrilled to welcome back Sarah Tavill, general partner at Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp,
20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- ▶ 25:27 Avichal Garg I mean, you look at companies like eBay or PayPal, I mean, they actually just get stronger and stronger over time.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
- ▶ 4:44 Eddy Lu During one of our pivots, Daishin, who's been a lifelong sneaker guy, he bought a pair of Jordan Five grapes on eBay. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:53 Eddy Lu Great idea in theory, but just like with the eBay example, there is just too much friction in this marketplace.
- ▶ 9:45 Eddy Lu I mentioned this previously, but the very fortunate thing for us is that since Greg was on our board from upfront who used to work at eBay, he was the only member on the board at that time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 Eddy Lu He's actually the former COO of eBay and on the boards of Salesforce, Yahoo, Visa, you name it.
- ▶ 15:07 Eddy Lu You go to eBay today and type in Yeezy, and about 30% of the listings aren't real. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Their stellar portfolio includes the likes of eBay, Zulily, General Assembly, Allbirds, and Deer & Co., just to name a few.
20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- ▶ 18:36 Pete Flint The classic example is eBay. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings And prior to Radius, Darian has enjoyed roles such as first external engineering hire at Facebook and working on the sell your item team at eBay.
20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
- ▶ 6:06 Dan Lewis Some pure marketplaces like eBay and some other ones, maybe like Instagram or Pinterest, which took a few years and then kind of hit and took off.
- ▶ 10:19 Dan Lewis And so when we were able to get investors that had built significant companies to come be a part of Convoy, that lent a lot of credibility and trust to our customers where they could say, okay, the founder of Amazon or the person who, you…
20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
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
- ▶ 5:48 James Currier I mean, if you look at the great successes of the last 20 years, there were a couple of companies who were first to market, which were eBay and Amazon, but that was 2020 plus years ago.
- ▶ 16:57 James Currier It's not just Facebook and eBay that have these network Craigslist that have these network effects.
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 10:06 Paul Buchheit And I don't know if you can remember the launch, people were selling the invites on eBay for hundreds of dollars.
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
- ▶ 19:20 Aaron VanDevender If you think about businesses like eBay and Etsy, where you have folks that are creating things that people want or selling things that people want, but the biggest barrier to getting them to the, to the customers, even if they can find… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Michael Dearing on 5 Key Principles He Uses To Assess Startup Founders, Why Benevolent Dictatorship Is A Beautiful Thing & Why Markets Are Better Capital Allocators Than CEOs
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings But prior to being in VC, Michael spent six years at eBay across numerous roles, and before that held positions at Shoe Warehouse as CEO, the Walt Disney Company in corporate strategy, and then Bain & Company as a consultant.
- ▶ 2:47 Michael Dearing I left eBay in 2006. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Michael Dearing I started selling on eBay. 4 times in the scene
20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun
- ▶ 6:29 Roger Dickey So you, you look at marketplaces like eBay. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp, and many more revolutionary companies of the last decade.
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 6:27 Harley Finkelstein Was to use a marketplace like eBay or Etsy or Amazon.
20VC: Explosion of First Time Funds, Only 1 Mega Fund Raised: What The Heck Happened in Q1 Venture Markets with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings She also spent time at Omidyar Network, created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Hewlett-Packard, and Morgan Stanley.
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings As for Lee, prior to being a VC with NextView, Lee started his career as an early employee of PayPal in product and business development through the company's 2002 IPO and the sale to eBay.
- ▶ 2:58 Lee Hower And the two companies sort of started off independently and were working on their own thing, but both ended up focusing on online payments, and particularly in the early days of eBay, sort of electronic transactions for eBay buys and… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
20VC: Why You Should Not Invest From Patterns, Why No Good Business Was Built As An Analogy Of Another & Why The Rise Of The 'Celebrity Investor' Is Concerning with Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ
- ▶ 11:20 Emily Melton So in 2000, what was extremely popular was like the eBay model.
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 5:52 Scott Dorsey Helped me build a broader set of business skills, expand my network in a really meaningful way, and it was a transition for me from one industry into a new industry, and I, I really used graduate school as a springboard to move into tech…
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 11:15 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, the cliche example from the nineties is the original positioning of eBay as being, you know,
20VC: More $ Raised This Year Than The Past 15, War Chests Being Built & Decline In First Time Funds: So What The Heck Is Happening In Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 1:03 Harry Stebbings She also spent time at Omidyar Network, created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Hewlett-Packard, and Morgan Stanley.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Previous guest Robin Hood, Rent.com, which was acquired by eBay for four hundred and fifteen million dollars, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 4:36 Karthik Sridharan And we kind of found that small businesses are kind of stuck in this awkward no man's land where they can't really go to Amazon or eBay or use consumer sites like that.
20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- ▶ 5:18 Josh Hannah Anyway, we had come up with this idea to create a kind of a marketplace for sports betting and exchange or an eBay type thing for a business that had always, it had never been done that way.
20VC: Why The Evolution of Digital Media Presents A Multi $Bn Opportunity with Brit Morin, Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co
- ▶ 26:47 unnamed speaker I was like, the pen, I, I actually want to buy a pendulum old school style, like on eBay, and put it on my desk at work to remind me.
20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Before Odeluk, Greg was executive vice president of business development and strategy at Live Nation, and before Live Nation, Greg held a number of leadership positions at eBay and StubHub, and was the business leader who led eBay's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Greg Bettinelli But the real story is I moved down here back into Los Angeles in 2008 after spending a lot of time at eBay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:11 Greg Bettinelli You know, and eBay when I was 32, I think.
- ▶ 9:25 Greg Bettinelli So I used to work for Jeff at eBay, um, and actually now serve on a board with him, a company called Walker and Company, um, that Andreessen, uh, led around after we had done a deal with an entrepreneur named Tristan Walker.
- ▶ 14:55 Greg Bettinelli So just, just the understanding of what it takes in an organization to truly scale, putting stuff in boxes is very different than say my eBay or stuff update is more of a marketplace business.
- ▶ 22:40 Greg Bettinelli And I think that's part of what makes really motivates me to move forward of all the things that from a work perspective, obviously getting hired at eBay in 2003 really set everything off for me. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 2:18 Dave McClure This, around 2001, I guess kind of during or after the first dot com blow up, I got a job working at PayPal and was there through the, through the IPO and through the sale to eBay and then a few years after that until around 2004.
- ▶ 19:43 Dave McClure Um, and those were, you know, how to build product and how to do marketing, um, kind of how to deal with tough situations when, you know, maybe fraudsters are trying to steal money from you or other large companies like eBay or Visa card…
20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings At LinkedIn, where he built the teams responsible for core product, user experience, platform, and mobile, and Adam has also held a number of roles at the likes of eBay, Atlas Venture Preview Systems, and Apple.
- ▶ 8:39 Adam Nash Even go back to early days, um, as an engineer at Apple, or, you know, as a product manager at eBay, certainly at LinkedIn, I felt a lot of responsibility and pride in the work we were doing and the products we were building and the…
- ▶ 12:24 Adam Nash I had the fortune of working with her, uh, at eBay
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 4:42 Justin Kan To sell the company, uh, ended up selling on eBay. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 12:41 Annie Kadavy I think that it's a natural evolution where eBay, I think, is kind of the first true consumer marketplace that is connecting supply and demand and making a market more efficient by nature of connecting people regardless of physical… 2 times in the scene
20VC: What LP's Want In VCs with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings She's also spent time at Omidyar Network, created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar,
- ▶ 3:53 Beezer Clarkson I joined a firm called Amideon Network, which was founded by Pierre Amidear, who started eBay.
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings And before Spark, he was at eBay, where 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 15:05 Logan Bartlett Um, so I go back and read the, you know, the story of eBay, uh, the story of, there's a book about the PayPal wars is the name of the book, and understanding how PayPal got to where they were, um, understanding the story of Amazon,…
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 16:35 Rebecca Kaden And when we look at some of the great successes in our portfolio, whether that's Zulily or eBay, they went after a very mainstream crowd.
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings The investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
20 VC FF 029: VC vs Angel Funding & The Future of E-Commerce with Ivan Mazour, Founder @ Ometria
- ▶ 23:15 Ivan Mazour Um, our first investor director, Elizabeth Ling, was, um, at eBay, at PayPal, at TalkTalk.
20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures
- ▶ 7:03 Boris Wertz I mean, eBay was kind of the first real big marketplace, uh, launched over 20 years ago.
- ▶ 14:02 Boris Wertz Um, you know, sometimes you might start in an Asian, you know, as the typical example of eBay starting kind of collectibles and then growing to this huge marketplace around all sorts of products.
- ▶ 20:57 Boris Wertz You, you, you look at, um, you look at eBay, for example, there's, there were a lot of things that were developed around the eBay ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 2:18 Fabrice Grinda Uh, I started becoming an entrepreneur 17 years ago when I built my first startup, which was an eBay-type site for frames, uh, then built a mobile content company in the U.S., and then built OLX.
20 VC 069: Jeff Clavier, King of Seed Funding @ SoftTech VC on Brad Feld, Fitbit and Standout Startups
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint, acquired by Intuit, Brightroll, Milo, acquired by eBay, Bleacher Report, Fitbit, Eventbrite, Postmates, Vungle, and the list goes on.
20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
- ▶ 18:18 Arteen Arabshahi So if you are, uh, let's say you're like an eBay, um, you know, you can't necessarily optimize every shipment because 1:02 you're shipping an iPhone, the next second you're shipping a table, right?
20 VC 057: The Investor Checklist with Nicolas Wittenborn, VC @ Point Nine Capital
- ▶ 3:15 Nico Wittenborn So, um, what I ended up doing was looking, um, on eBay, and I started importing, um, iPhones from, from the UK, where they were actually a bit cheaper, and because we just had started to have the European Union, there was no tolls on it,…
20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube
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