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Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:11 Adam Fishman Um, and when Raj was doing his due diligence on John and Logan, Raj somehow found, uh, Logan's high school principal and contacted Logan's high school principal from Southern California and asked him about Logan.
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 3:30 Ann Miura-Ko The way we met John and Logan was that Leah Buskey, who's the founder of TaskRabbit, had been in the Facebook incubator or accelerator at the same time as John and Logan. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 Ann Miura-Ko The fact that John Zimmer, when he was selling the platform to universities, would go to a university campus dressed in a beaver suit to try to convince people to just engage with this platform gives you a sense for, like, it wasn't that…
- ▶ 15:51 Ann Miura-Ko And like when I say we were experimenting, I think John and Logan emailed a bunch of Zimride users in the San Francisco area, and they built Lyft in like three weeks because they felt like this was an experiment that they wanted to run.
- ▶ 18:14 Ann Miura-Ko And, like, Logan and John, like, slammed their fists on the table, and they're like, this is for sure going to work, and we need to head in this direction.
- ▶ 19:25 Ann Miura-Ko And what I found with Lyft, and John and Logan in particular, is you can be
- ▶ 31:04 Harry Stebbings Final element before the quickfire, I'm just like, you know, when you think to the development of John and Logan, you know, they've gone from, you know, two people with a crazy idea to public market founders now.
- ▶ 34:23 Harry Stebbings What did they do, John and Logan, that is, to create the culture that they did within the company? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:13 Ann Miura-Ko John and Logan were working in this one room office. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 10:39 Ann Miura-Ko Uh, when I first got into that company with TaskRabbit, it was the only company that I was working with, and so I spent a hundred percent of my time thinking about Leah and thinking about TaskRabbit and how it was going to become amazing,…
- ▶ 26:49 Ann Miura-Ko And, and I think the fact that Lyft really played upon this irreverent sense of brand, as well as a tight sense of community, uh, came from the fact that actually the, the founders, John and Logan, really believed in that experience.