Hipcamp
also referred to as: hip camp
11 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2020 by Alyssa Ravasio · said 43 times in 4 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alyssa Ravasio (17), Harry Stebbings (16), Sarah Tavel (10)
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 37 mentions in 2 episodes 19 per episode
- 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
- 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
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2018 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Hipcamp, oldest first
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020 positive
Andreessen Horowitz's Andrew Chen gives Hipcamp operational feedback on landing pages
“Andrew Chen, who joined our board six months ago in particular, has been really helpful, like getting into the data with us, which has been fun. He just has that operational experience from Uber, and it's fun to like get him in there and have him actually prov…”
Mar 27, 2020
Ravasio: Mental clarity delivers higher leverage for CEOs than raw hours
“Once you start to be the leader of others, As a CEO and have people who actually are looking to you for direction, something really important shifts there that I think I missed for a little bit, which is that suddenly, while of course it's very important to be…”
Mar 27, 2020
Ravasio: Marketplace supply ownership is critical for controlling customer experience
“I would say the Most important lesson is that owning your supply is really important, because when you're building on top of someone else's supply, you can't influence it, you can't control it, you can't make sure your customer's gonna have the type of experie…”
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020 positive
Mar 27, 2020 positive
Most Hipcamp listings are exclusive and unavailable on other platforms
“Differentiated supply allows you to solve that problem in a way that is really defensible over time, because most of the supply that's on Hip Camp today, you can't find it anywhere else. In fact, they didn't allow members of the public to come to their land be…”
Mar 27, 2020 neutral
Ravasio rejected VCs offering to double Andreessen Horowitz's Series B valuation
“For our most recent series B, you know, I had to cancel a lot of meetings and was hearing things like, you know, whatever you got, I'll double it. And, you know, it doesn't matter. And I just think like having the grounding to know that that's not what I'm loo…”
Mar 27, 2020 positive
Ravasio: Hipcamp's Bay Area usage is driven by a two-to-three-hour regional radius
“One is that we have a really strong regional network effect. So this is kind of like an Uber or a Lyft, where, for example, here in the Bay Area, we have a lot of people who love and use the platform, and they tend to camp And stay with us really in called a t…”
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
Hipcamp's first angel check was funded by selling a Twitter handle for $13,000
“Our first check-in to HipCamp was my friend Jeremy Grosser. He was an engineer at Uber, and he heard that another friend of mine, Catherine Krug, had committed some investment, which she ironically did In the middle of a conversation with me telling her how I …”