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Johannes Reck

8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2025 by Johannes Reck · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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2025 4 mentions in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 1 episode

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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 neutral
Insight
Reck: Founders should cap secondary liquidity to a few million dollars
“I think a couple million bucks is probably the right thing if you're a mature company. I don't think that you should be taking too much off the table, so it shouldn't be enough so that you retire forever, never need to work again.”
Johannes Reck Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 55:06 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
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
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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
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
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
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