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