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Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:50 Harry Stebbings The other cool IPO, which isn't on schedule, but it's just lime announcing that they're prepping to IPO. 4 times in the scene
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:24 Martin Mignot If you're selling a service, so, you know, Lime and Bird and those, then I think you can have a large scale, but it is so operationally complex, and you're also competing with a lot of subsidized transportation. 4 times in the scene
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:09 Adarsh Hiremath I think it's probably my lime ride to the office when I'm running late for morning stand up. 2 times in the scene
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Wayne Ting When I first streamed Line, we were losing three dollars for every dollar of revenue. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings I told you, listen, I come out of my apartment every day, and there's like, 50 limes in front of my house.
- ▶ 3:07 Harry Stebbings So we have those learnings and we have that time with Dara and Uber, and then we decide to join Lime. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:09 Wayne Ting I think that the biggest challenge was that the business was upside down at that point. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:45 Wayne Ting On Lyme's platform, we, we design, we engineer, we produce, and we operate ourselves. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Wayne Ting Here, you mentioned when you walk out of your apartment, your flat, you can always get a line. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Wayne Ting And we actually like the competitive RFP process for two main reasons. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Harry Stebbings How did gen three to gen four
- ▶ 20:52 Harry Stebbings How did gen three to gen four 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:28 Wayne Ting But imagine, imagine, Harry, you're working for Lime, and we're, we're asking you to pick up the scooters, drive it home, charge it, drive it back the next day.
- ▶ 26:26 Wayne Ting What I love about the business model is that it's like Lyme has been advertising we're profitable, free cash flow positive in a very public way when most of our competitors have not been able to deliver similar results. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Wayne Ting One of the things that surprised me when I first joined Lime, I, my expectation was we were only going to work in the biggest mega, mega cities in the world where density, congestion, affordability, the problems of transportation are most… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Wayne Ting So it becomes harder to, and as you want to demonstrate progress quickly, but I would say to the credit of the, of the leadership team, I think that the, the leadership team that Brad and Toby bill was quite strong at line. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:12 Wayne Ting I feel like Lime couldn't really assert our leadership in the industry until VCs kind of moved on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:48 Wayne Ting I do think without the early funding, Lime wouldn't be where it is today. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:50 Wayne Ting Line wouldn't have survived if we did not do that deal.
- ▶ 46:20 Harry Stebbings The business is profitable. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:43 Wayne Ting I was like, am I the only CEO who's going to have to figure out how to overcome a stroke and get back to work and hopefully lead Lyme to higher, greater heights.
- ▶ 55:13 Wayne Ting Um, in the history of Lime, it was, it would probably be San Diego. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:01 Wayne Ting One of the things I'm most proud of at Lime, we do a, we do a biannual company survey on employee sentiment, and the, the, the question we score the highest is, do I feel like I belong? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:17 Harry Stebbings What you've done with Lyme is incredible. 2 times in the scene
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:06 Dara Khosrowshahi We have a investment now in Lime, which is succeeding in that, but it's the only thing that they are doing. 3 times in the scene
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 10:51 Harry Stebbings If you haven't checked that one out, then it is a must, but I'm so excited now for Ed Baker, growth advisor to startups like Lime, Zwift, Whoop.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:31 Emil Michael I, I, I, you know, Lime had to do one a couple of years ago, um, the scooter company and Uber put in a hundred million dollars. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, Ed is an angel investor and growth advisor to various startups, including Lime, Zwift, Whoop, Crimson Education, GoPeer, and Playbook.
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 22:34 Jana Messerschmidt For a company like Bird, where I'm a personal investor, or Lime,
20VC: Lime CEO Brad Bao on How Lime Assess The Micro-Mobility Landscape and Competition Today, What It Takes To Launch and Win A New City & Why Lime Have Spent $0 on Marketing To Date
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings You might remember a month or so ago, we had Sarah Smith at Bain on the show, and she discussed her thesis for the Series D investment in Lime. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Harry Stebbings But that's enough of me, and so now I'm very, very excited to hand over to Brad Bao, co-founder and CEO at Lime.
- ▶ 4:10 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way from the world of VC and Tencent to founding one of the hottest companies today in the form of Lime? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:13 Harry Stebbings How do you think that time impacted your maybe operating mentality today with Lime? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:09 Brad Bao Yeah, I think the, uh, for any industry that the, given how fast Lime grows, right, as the global leader in the scooter share and bike share business, that we are a company that's two year and five month old, but we're already operating in… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:57 Brad Bao There are many markets that we are half of the fleet that will have way more than half of the market share that representing it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 Harry Stebbings But you mentioned the multiple markets there, and I am super interested, because Lime's now a global business, but there are also global competitors in Europe and Latin America with HQs in those locations.
- ▶ 14:22 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask, because the other area where maybe as I'm sure you know there are some skeptics around is the unit economics of Lime's model. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:33 Harry Stebbings Together at Lime, how did you convince such an incredible cohort of individuals to join you over, you know, the many other options that they would have had in place? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 Harry Stebbings Tell me, what do you know now that you wish you'd known at the beginning of Lime? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:38 Harry Stebbings I do want to finish this day, Brad, on a final question being, what's the next five years for you and for Lime? 6 times in the scene
20VC: Why Consumer Brands Must Embrace Physical Retail To Avoid Inflated Online CACs, How To Alter Fund Strategy When Investing In Consumer Retail & Why The Era of The 1,000 Store Brand Is Over with Brendan Wallace, Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wa
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings A dear friend in the form of Brendan Wallace, co-founder and managing partner at Fifth Wall, the fun with the core thesis being the physical world around us is colliding with technology, and within their portfolio includes the likes of…
- ▶ 26:37 Brendan Wallace Now, out of our real estate technology fund, we've invested in companies like Lime, where there's a potentially massive consumer outcome because the market is enormous, the market is
20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Fun with a portfolio, including the likes of LinkedIn, Lime, SendGrid, Jet.com, and more incredible names. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:01 Harry Stebbings Sarah, it is such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard so many great things from Brad and the team at Lyme, and so I really appreciate you taking the time out to join me today, Sarah.
- ▶ 11:40 Harry Stebbings Obviously, you led the Series D into the line with Bain, so I want to deconstruct your sources here on the DLC.
- ▶ 14:40 Sarah Smith In this case, Lime already had a clear lead on everyone in scaling, but also had made incredible strength 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Sarah Smith That would drive to ultimately positive unit economics, and if you think about it, you have to believe that any company at scale would have the ability to build a similarly tough and rugged scooter, and so for us, it came down to sort of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Sarah Smith You know, honestly, Lime is the first company I have seen since my time at Facebook showing that kind of sort of tornado of growth and insane momentum. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:28 Harry Stebbings We mentioned some of the hottest companies in town with Lime and Bird, and in these cases, the talent itself is the biggest war.
20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- ▶ 23:50 Harry Stebbings Sam, you mentioned global booms there, so before we move on to the element of new cycles and fake and real, I do have to ask, everyone in Europe is chasing the lime and bird competitors that exist here.