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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
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.