eBay, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:05 Harry Stebbings I remember doing eBay back in the day.
20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
- ▶ 50:16 James Gibson And that's despite it being an area that was already owned by, you know, eBay and, and, and the like.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 28:41 Alex Schultz I like to think we're, we're hopefully we're going to be the sort of Google or Apple or Microsoft of this generation of tech companies and not the Yahoo or eBay.
- ▶ 40:43 Alex Schultz He was my old boss at eBay, but whatever, they've, they've turned over CEO.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21 Jason Lemkin Like this is not the, the bucolic, whether it was ever a bucolic, but the idea of benchmark in the eBay days of a bunch of, uh, gentlemen, uh, investors staying together for 80 years, it's possible that's part of the past.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:05 Jason Lemkin Like I literally could see, uh, I remember back in the day, I mean, Guru, you would actually remember the details, but like, you know, I think eBay bought Skype, but forgot to get the IP, right?
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 5:10 Luke Harries So we each won an Xbox and immediately put that on eBay.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:15 unnamed speaker That the AI disruption is actually benefiting startup incumbents, because they have the data modes, and so it doesn't benefit eBay, you know, because they're slow and big, but it benefits, you know, an incumbent startup that has already… 7 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:19 Jason Wilk They had sold a previous company for like six million dollars, some eBay tools business.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:38 Harry Stebbings Outsold eBay. 2 times in the scene
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:38 Nabeel Hyatt But some kind of compounding effect where we think no matter what happens after this year, it's eBay, they just launch a product and 40 years later, the product looked basically exactly the same
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:39 Hussein Kanji eBay was the hot company back then, and then the Googles didn't exist, the sales forces didn't exist.