Kiko

also referred to as: kiko calendar

4 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 1, 2016 by Justin Kan · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Justin Kan (4), Emmett Shear (4), Harry Stebbings (1)

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Kiko, oldest first

Aug 1, 2016
Assertion Supported
Justin Kan Sold Web Calendar Startup Kiko on eBay for $250,000
“Ended up selling on eBay. Decided startups weren't quite as bad as we'd thought because from the eBay sale, which was about a quarter of a million dollars, we made a little bit of money.”
Justin Kan Aug 1, 2016 ▶ 4:42 20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
Feb 21, 2020
Assertion Supported
Shear: Tucows bought web calendar Kiko on eBay for roughly $258,000
“It winds up getting bought by two cows for, I'm gonna get the number wrong, but I think it's, like, 258,000.”
Emmett Shear Feb 21, 2020 ▶ 7:29 20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
Feb 21, 2020
Disclosure
Shear: Kiko Calendar and Justin.tv never found sustainable product-market fit
“And we never achieved product market fit with Kiko Calendar. We did a little bit, certain brief moments. We had something that kind of was akin to product market fit with Justin TV, but then it turned out the hill wasn't very high, and the boulder didn't roll …”
Emmett Shear Feb 21, 2020 ▶ 10:28 20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
Feb 21, 2020
Disclosure
Shear: Justin.tv co-founders kept the company afloat using personal Kiko proceeds
“When we started Justin TV, we took some of the money that we earned from Kiko Not very much, but like a little bit. We wound up actually lending it to the company to keep the company afloat when we didn't have any cash in the bank”
Emmett Shear Feb 21, 2020 ▶ 8:18 20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.