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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter
- ▶ 7:39 Fidji Simo You know, I was working at eBay for three years, and then I applied to Facebook.
20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- ▶ 4:23 Nicolas Szekasy We brought eBay as an investor, and as a reminder, eBay in 2002 1001 was the equivalent of Amazon in 2021. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 31:56 Jay Simons She is just steeped in decades of operating experience from Intuit and eBay and has been a great independent director on lots of incredible boards.
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings He also led special projects for the CEO and CFO at eBay, and began his career at McKinsey & Company.
20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
- ▶ 23:27 Marcos Galperin This was with eBay. 8 times in the scene
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings He was also one of the early employees at Half.com, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of business development, media, and entertainment roles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:34 Chris Fralic We were acquired by eBay, so I spent a lot of time in e-commerce, person-to-person e-commerce, and really felt like I knew it very well, and remember, we had the opportunity to look at Etsy, and I was almost dismissive, or I just thought… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Now, Peter is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the great venture firms of the last three decades, with a portfolio including the likes of Snap, Twitter, eBay, New Relics,
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 8:01 Jeremy Levine But ePinions ultimately merged with another company called DealTime, and then eBay acquired it, and so that never materials.
- ▶ 33:07 Jeremy Levine eBay was around and Yahoo was around.
20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Melio, Matan was head of PayPal Consumer Product Center, and before that was a head of product and GM at eBay in their Israel Innovation Center.
- ▶ 25:08 Matan Bar This is not something that I had experience with, you know, at PayPal or eBay or at my first startup that got acquired by eBay. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Prior to Etsy, though, Josh served as president of consumer products and services at American Express, who is also the CEO of Skype and CEO of shopping.com, and he also held various executive roles at eBay.
- ▶ 7:48 Josh Silverman You know, I mean, when they asked me to run Skype, I was at eBay.
- ▶ 22:08 Josh Silverman When I took over at Skype, Meg Whitman was the CEO of eBay, which owned Skype at the time, and she had sort of talked a lot about Skype.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings High yield bonds, and convertible securities, and joining Howard, who better to have than the one and only Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes…