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GetYourGuide

also referred to as: get your guide

34 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2025 by Johannes Reck · said 46 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Johannes Reck (26), Harry Stebbings (17), Avi Meir (2), Philipp Freise (1)

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2025 44 mentions in 2 episodes 22 per episode
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Everything said about GetYourGuide, oldest first

Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
GetYourGuide had ~$2M net revenue growing 2x-3x at Series A
“Business was doing somewhere around two million net revenue at that point, and growing, I think two X to three X over a year.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 15:58 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Reck: GetYourGuide raised $100M in convertible debt during COVID
“We raised some convertible debt. On top, we raised roughly a hundred million, both from existing and some new investors.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 46:18 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
GetYourGuide revenues dropped to zero within three weeks during COVID-19
“It took three weeks from that board meeting to us being at zero revenues, literally zero.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 37:24 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
GetYourGuide Raised $1 Million Seed Round at a $5M-$6M Valuation
“It was a million bucks... I think at like a five or six million pre-money.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 13:17 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 positive
What-if
Reck: GetYourGuide probably wouldn't exist without Rocket Internet
“And it is that I never did business with them but I must say that without them even Get Your Guide probably couldn't exist.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 11:01 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Disclosure
Johannes Reck sold secondary equity during GetYourGuide's 2019 SoftBank round
“I did sell secondaries, thankfully in 2019 as part of the soft bank round which actually was very helpful.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 54:07 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
Former Booking.com CEO Kees Koolen invested $1M in GetYourGuide
“I'm going to come on board. Like I'm joining a board of directors and I'm going to personally invest a million bucks in the company.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 22:34 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GetYourGuide Product and Engineering Staff Took 30%+ Salary Cuts for Equity During COVID
“Our product and edge organization, and even beyond that into management function, people on average reduced their salaries by more than 30% in exchange for shares.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 41:24 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Reck: Spark Capital's fund returned multiple times via Oculus and Wayfair
“So TalkSpark Capital, our Series A lead, you know, the deal after Get Your Guide was Oculus Rift, right? You know, Palmer Lucchi. So, you know, we were basically off the hook a couple of months after they made the investment in us because the fund was already …”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 1:06:28 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Reck: AI reduced GetYourGuide product onboarding from days to seconds
“On the supply side. The supply is completely transformed. It used to take, I think, days to upload a product because experiences are so complex. You know, you need to add a description and photos and like take a hundred boxes at the meeting point and, you know…”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 1:20:15 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Johannes Reck says GetYourGuide can only go public using American funds
“How can a German company go public in Europe? It's impossible. And like, if we go public, it's only with American funds.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 1:10:02 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
What-if
GetYourGuide would have gone bankrupt during COVID without its $450M round
“For us it was the decision that ultimately made Get Your Guide into what it is today, because just six months after we raised that money, COVID hit. So we would be bankrupt without that round.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 35:04 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Reck: GetYourGuide grew 10x between late 2021 and March 2022
“We went from, you know, late, 20, 21 to March, 20, 22, we grew 10 X.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 45:32 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 negative
What-if
Reck: GetYourGuide Would Have Grown Faster by Delaying US Expansion
“If I'd go back in time, it's another lesson for a lot of founders. I would have not gone as early. I would have done more in Europe. I think we would have had even more growth and more profitability.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 30:54 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Reck: German Visa Process Took Six Months for GetYourGuide CTO
“For him to get a visa to come to Germany after he had signed a job contract, and this guy makes a lot of money, took him six months.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 1:14:06 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Reck: GetYourGuide was first to sell Vatican tours online in 2010
“We got very lucky because we got a very good tour agency, which did tours to the Vatican very early on in the Vatican is like one of the major sites in all of Europe and no one had sold the Vatican online at that point in time.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 8:09 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 negative
What-if
Johannes Reck regrets raising a $14M Series A due to excessive dilution
“I would have not raised as big of a series A looking back. I think it was too much dilution.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 16:36 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Reck: 90% of GetYourGuide's Berlin Employees Are Non-German
“At Get Your Guide, we have 90% of our employees in Berlin are not German.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 1:12:55 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Disclosure
Johannes Reck asked his parents to remortgage their house for GetYourGuide
“I need to go to my parents and basically say, hi, you need to fund me for like another year after university. So, you know, can you please, you know, put a mortgage on your house and like fund me because there was no seed capital available. No one would give a…”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 5:53 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Disclosure
Reck Received His First Founder Incentive Package Ten Years After Starting GetYourGuide
“The first founder incentive package that I personally got awarded by the board with I think happened after like a decade or so.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 17:57 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
US VCs Refused to Fund GetYourGuide Unless They Relocated to America
“For the people that I met in the U S most people said, you know, move over here or we're not going to give you funding.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 13:45 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GetYourGuide had only 3 to 5 bookings in its first two years
“We had, I think three to five bookings in the first two years of our prototype, three of which was my mother because she took so much pity on our students.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 3:02 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
GetYourGuide Retained All Engineers and Product Managers Throughout the Pandemic
“So we only had to ultimately lay off throughout the entire two years roughly, 15 to 20% of the staff, not a single engineer, not a single product person.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 42:03 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Disclosure
Investors urged Johannes Reck to lay off GetYourGuide's entire staff during COVID
“The bad thing was I had a lot of investors who basically called me up and said, you have to lay off the entire company immediately to save all of the dollars you have on the balance sheet.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 39:02 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Johannes Reck says hiring scale executive product talent in Europe is impossible
“If I want to hire, let's say the next chief product officer, At Get Your Guide, it's almost impossible to do that in Europe and need to go to Silicon Valley because the density of people who have done that scale have served tens of millions of customers a year…”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 1:07:54 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
GetYourGuide raised $14M Series A at $30M-$35M pre-money valuation
“Series A at the time was actually very big for European standards at the time so it was somewhere around fourteen million. As a total of Series A, like I think like 30, thirty five million pre-money.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 16:16 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
GetYourGuide originally launched as a peer-to-peer tour guide community
“And like the prequel to get your guide was like, we were building a travel community for everyone to be a guide.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 2:08 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Reck: GetYourGuide Never Touched Capital Raised in 2023 Round
“We never touched any of that capital because we broke even at the same time.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 50:47 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reck: GetYourGuide earned $500k in net revenue in 2010
“I think we did something like half a million then in, in the first year in 2010 in net revenue. So commission revenues, more or less profitable, but we didn't have any cash because we were just living off the mortgages from our parents.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 8:50 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
GetYourGuide Lost Zero Senior Executives During the COVID Crisis
“We had not a single person in senior leadership leave the company.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 43:41 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Reck: GetYourGuide Is Profitable and 5x Pre-Pandemic Size
“Fast forward today, we're now five times the size of pre-pandemic and we're profitable”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 51:00 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025
Disclosure
GetYourGuide laid off 30% of its staff a year after Series A
“I remember like a year or so after Raising that A round, I needed to lay off 30% of the company and completely re-juggle Get Your Guide to refocus us on the core.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 20:59 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2030
Reck: GetYourGuide engineering headcount will grow slower due to AI gains
“We'll have more, but a lot less than we thought we would add. So, so in other words, we'll gradually grow, but I think the productivity gains from these engineers will be massive.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 1:20:02 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Reck: GetYourGuide 2022 volumes doubled 2019 pre-pandemic levels
“Literally like in 2022 were double 20 19 levels. And 20 21 was still half 2019 levels.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 45:52 GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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