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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Lime comes up
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.