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