eBay, every mention
19 scenes (2018), the whole family · ← back to eBay
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every year 2018 anyone Harry Stebbings 59Jeff Jordan 15Alex Schultz 13Eddy Lu 12Marcos Galperin 8Maynard Webb 7Marty Cagan 7Greg Bettinelli 7Michael Dearing 6Rory O'Driscoll 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
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…