Jeff Jordan
21 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 7 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 16, 2023 by Jeff Jordan · said 29 times in 14 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (15), Anu Hariharan (4), Iman Abuzeid (3), Sam Corcos (2), Alex Schultz (2), Ryan Caldbeck (1), Logan Bartlett (1), Ariel Cohen (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 4 mentions in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
2016 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Jeff Jordan, oldest first
Jan 16, 2023 negative
Jeff Jordan: Board members should not prescribe decisions to founders
“You know, I try never to be prescriptive. You should do this. I try to say in my experience, I faced something similar. I tried A, B and C and here's what happened. But you know, just, I don't want the entrepreneur to do what I say because Then, you know, I'm …”
Jan 16, 2023 positive
Jordan: The demand side of a marketplace is more strategic than supply
“I have a belief that the demand side is, you know, kind of the, is the more, more strategic side, because suppliers typically will go wherever the demand is, and so for me, keeping a healthy demand Bucket, you know, is what your suppliers are looking for?”
Jan 16, 2023 negative
Jan 16, 2023
Jordan: Founders Pick Board Members as Bosses for a Decade
“The most important thing is pick your board members selectively. You know, the founder who comes in, you know you know, gets 10 term sheets spends an hour with each of the GPs and then picks one. I don't know how you know, You, you're actually picking your bos…”
Jan 16, 2023 negative
Jan 16, 2023
Jordan: VC-Founder Misalignment Stems from VC Portfolio Risk Dynamics
“I think the biggest one is VCs have a portfolio and the founders have N of one. And so, yeah, I try to be very explicit on that. You know, the founder says, okay, I have a fork in the road. You know, what, which, what's your point of view on where I should go?…”
Jan 16, 2023 positive
Jan 16, 2023 negative
Jan 16, 2023 positive
Jan 16, 2023 bullish
Jordan: Aggregating fragmented supply creates defensible marketplace moats
“Open table by contrast had, you know, the target market was 30 or 40 or 50,000 restaurants, almost all of which were the, had one, the owner only managed one restaurant. And so it was brutally hard to aggregate, but once you're aggregated, you know, it's bruta…”
Jan 16, 2023 negative
Jan 24, 2023 negative
Jan 24, 2023 positive
Jordan: eBay's Best Growth Strategy Was Making Organic User Listings Discoverable
“So eBay became a mechanism for that, for computers, for sporting goods, for, you know, and so the most successful growth strategy we had back in the day was just look what people were listing. And then try to enable it to be found on a much more systemic basis…”
Jan 24, 2023
Jordan: Local Marketplaces Reach a Tipping Point at 10% Supply
“There was a tipping point in each market. It's something like 10% of the target market supply where diners finally said, okay, this is so much more convenient than calling a restaurant one at a time, getting put on hold, getting voicemail, getting all this and…”
Jan 24, 2023 positive
Jordan: OpenTable Used a 'Come for the Tool' Marketplace Strategy
“Open table is pretty interesting because it was a long slog before it became an overnight success because aggregating supply did take time. It was a classic come for the tools, stay for the network. Play. And so early on in a city, when you're just selling the…”
Jan 24, 2023 neutral
Jan 24, 2023 bearish
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Jan 24, 2023 positive