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Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 49:19 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) and then we're also going to put Lyft in there, and we're going to put other providers in there, and then that'll be incremental business for you. 2 times in the scene
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 14:01 Harry Stebbings It's actually the disaggregation of UI or the removal of UI where you say, I want a car, and ChatGPT automatically routes you to Lyft,
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 1:05:41 Harry Stebbings Is it like a cloud market where you have obviously Azure, AWS, GCP, or is it an Uber and a Lyft where one takes 90% and the others kind of fight for scraps?
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:22 Harry Stebbings Do you think it's like an Uber lift market or do you think it's an AWS, Google Cloud, Azure market? 2 times in the scene
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:58 Harry Stebbings Is this an Uber Lyft?
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:29 Harry Stebbings Is this an Uber Lyft where one of the providers takes 90%?
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:21 Amjad Masad And then when things kind of rationalize or Uber lift, when things rationalize, you, you kind of focused on your gross margins.
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:12 unnamed speaker Cause you take the Uber lift struggle, right?
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:22 Jason Lemkin It destroyed Lyft. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:22 Harry Stebbings Is it like Uber and Lyft?
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:35 Harry Stebbings Does that look more like cloud, or does that look more like Uber and Lyft? 4 times in the scene
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:13 Harry Stebbings If we, okay, actually a much better way to ask that is, is this an Uber and a Lyft? 2 times in the scene
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:41 Matt Fitzpatrick I actually think the dynamic, again, why I would use Uber and Lyft, you could use, um, you could use Airbnb and VRBO as the same context is, I don't think people, I don't think experts go on five platforms, right?
- ▶ 47:58 Harry Stebbings Is this a market where, you said like Uber and Lyft, is this a market where there's one and two players and they take the dominant market share and then there's everyone else?
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:50 David George In that fund, we also had GitHub, DigitalOcean, uh, Lyft, and many other things.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:45 Harry Stebbings Not only the winner though, Rory, I think actually market dominance in a way that Uber and Lyft is.
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 37:35 Harry Stebbings When you project forward this market, I always kind of try and think about market makeup and composition, like your Uber and Lyft style market or a much more even distribution, maybe a little bit more like cloud where you've got three or…
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 39:14 Max Junestrand Well, it's like the Uber and Lyft situation a little bit, right?
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Larry Aschebrook We made a ton of money on Lyft, and we lost money on Uber.
- ▶ 29:31 Larry Aschebrook But that fund also, but by the way, that fund also had, um, Lyft, Uber, um, um, uh, SpaceX, um, Instacart, um, Impossible Foods, um, uh, the list goes on and on of companies.
- ▶ 30:46 Larry Aschebrook Lyft and that fund became the value play. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:29 Larry Aschebrook No, no, but we had come off, in fairness to us, we just came off a great outcome in, in Lyft. 2 times in the scene
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:34 Harry Stebbings Is it like Uber and Lyft where Uber takes 90% and everyone else takes 10% and that's duo and everyone else?
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:35 Harry Stebbings Is it an Uber and a Lyft or is it a Salesforce and a HubSpot and a lots of CRM plays and a Viva also for a specialized industry and much more fragmented?
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:33 Harry Stebbings Or is it one like Uber, where Uber has 90%, Lyft has five, and then there's alternative providers with the other five?
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:36 Harry Stebbings How does this market play out in terms of Uber, Lyft, or actually multiple providers all kind of distributed evenly?
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:35 Sridhar Ramaswamy Mobile did produce truly new things like Uber and Lyft, but I would say that generation of companies had already smarted up to the world that platform disruptions were, um, were going to be a pretty big deal, and this is why you see these…
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:17 Shervin Pishevar Lyft. 8 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:08 Mike Maples It was Lyft, who followed us, uh, Naveen at Mayfield Fund, uh, Founders Fund, A-Six-Teen-Z.
- ▶ 21:23 Mike Maples Ann funded Lyft at five and a half million post money.
- ▶ 27:12 Harry Stebbings You, you said there about, kind of, Anne's, uh, incredible investment, seven 50 into Lyft, um, and whatever that was, a two 50 X. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:12 Mike Maples Lyft harnessed the iPhone for us had a GPS chip in it.
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:50 Raman Malik You know, I, um, I basically started my career on the paid acquisition team at Lyft, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:57 Raman Malik Well, okay, let's, let's flip that Lyft scenario. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:32 Raman Malik Lift.
- ▶ 54:52 Raman Malik You know, when I started at Lyft, I was literally like entry level, nobody role, but like my one thing was like, I'm just going to know the numbers better than everyone else. 5 times in the scene
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:24 Markus Villig I'd say that if I look at some of our competitors like Lyft in the US, I don't think that being a number two is sustainable.
- ▶ 37:37 Harry Stebbings What happens to Lyft from here? 6 times in the scene
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:43 Vlad Tenev There, there's Uber, there's Lyft.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:39 AJ Tennant And I've seen that, like, we, we, we had this amazing AE, I'll, you know, I'll give her a shout out, Rachel Sato, who, Northwestern grad, went to work at McKinsey, same thing, had this thought that she wanted to go work in product…
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:21 Harry Stebbings But even now, actually, you could argue that say like in an Uber lift case, which is exactly what I was thinking, the insight I think would be that broad is better than narrow in terms of market expansion and being everywhere is more…
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:32 Scott Gorlick So, in a lot of ways, when we launched UberX, the main competitor was Lyft, and 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 Harry Stebbings Did the team view Lyft as a competitor? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:12 Harry Stebbings What's the number one reason that Uber beat Lyft?
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:56 Harry Stebbings Is this a Uber and Lyft market?
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:19 Kevin Ryan So in, in things like Uber, being five times bigger than Lyft ultimately does make the difference.
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:15 Ely Lerner You've got your Instacart, your Uber, your Lyft.
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:43 Mike Maples Dropbox, uh, Uber, Lyft, you know, and, and invested 750,000 dollars at 5.5 post in Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:12 Mike Maples Like, when, when I was involved with, Anne was involved with Lyft, right, while Eric was involved with Uber, like, Travis is gonna raise a ton of money and go to every city in the country and every city in the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:30 Harry Stebbings Respectfully, Uber and Lyft are very differently priced today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:27 Mike Maples We negotiated well with Lyft.
- ▶ 1:07:55 Mike Maples As much as we loved Lyft and Okta, you know, in those years leading up into twenty-twenty, we're like, okay, we need to monetize these things, right, because there's a lot of excitement about tech stocks right now, and these prices are…
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:05 Harry Stebbings Uber, Lyft, you know, Etsy's an incredible company at nine billion, but Shopify's at 85.
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:32 Sam Lessin I think people got into this mentality and it was partially because money was free and partially because of like Uber and Lyft and everything's in Airbnb and blah, blah, blah, right?
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:27 Mike Maples I, I guess Lyft would probably be up there.
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 Adam Grenier Didi knew everything we were doing, uh, whereas, like, Lyft and Uber always knew what each other were doing, because we were watching each other, we're friends, things like that, but, like, we never had each other's data.
- ▶ 53:32 Adam Grenier Uh, whereas like Lyft and Uber always knew what each other were doing because we were watching each other, we're friends, things like that.
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:15 Glen Coates Spotify or Lyft or something.
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 36:13 unnamed speaker So as an example, Zimride, to explore the idea of Lyft, hired their first PM, and his job was go exploring this idea of Lyft for us. 2 times in the scene
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:42 Jeff Jordan So, you know, you get the Uber, Lyft, uh, situation where, you know, billions of dollars went into the building of those two businesses, and they're in the United States, they compete with each other.
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:40 Jeff Jordan So, you know, you get the Uber Lyft, uh, situation where, you know, billions of dollars went into the building of those two businesses and they're in the United States, they compete with each other.
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
- ▶ 27:23 Harry Stebbings And finally, before Patreon, Adam was Head of Growth at Lyft, where he was one of the first growth and marketing employees and grew the team to 18 people.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:37 Harry Stebbings And I mean this nicely, but you look at maybe older firm brands like Mayfield, where you may look and think a slightly more challenged brand for a firm and not a hot brand, but actually Lyft, HashiCorp, Tonal, they're going to be showing…
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:13 Emil Michael Should we buy Lyft, should we not buy Lyft? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:03 Emil Michael So even if you think Instacart's a fifteen billion dollar business, I think we could have built a sixty billion dollar business globally on that, on top of Eats, which was another, another 60 to a hundred billion if we'd won DoorDash, and…
- ▶ 56:54 Emil Michael We just would have like Lyft stayed in our lane.
- ▶ 1:00:17 Emil Michael I mean, Lyft stuck to their knitting, and they're about, they're getting crushed.
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:20 Harry Stebbings And I think my biggest concern today is actually what we should be concerned about, Carl, which is these so-so venture firms are gonna continuously get funding because they're still getting DPI on Lyft IPO-ing last year and sending cash…
Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:29 Jordan Van Horn Well, I go close like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb when they're 15 person companies and they just need like a messaging service, right?
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings But I do, but I do want to start, you know, when we look today at some of the growth you've been a part of, Patreon, Lyft, I'd love to hear, what was that entry into growth for you?
- ▶ 2:13 Adam Fishman And we pivoted Zimride to Lyft in about, I don't know, four or five months after I joined. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:02 Harry Stebbings I do want to dive into those two experiences with Lyft and with Patreon, you know, such incredible companies and hyper growth. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Adam Fishman I was at Lyft for three years.
- ▶ 16:56 Adam Fishman So I'll give you like a perfect example of this at Lyft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Adam Fishman So like to come back to our lift example in that financial viral loop, it's very simple, right?
- ▶ 23:25 Adam Fishman Um, we tried to implement a referral loop like Lyft, where, hey, as a parent, I would invite another person.
- ▶ 35:02 Adam Fishman So the story is, so, um, the original Series A investor in Zimride, which became Lyft, was, uh, Raj Kapoor at Mayfield.
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 12:50 Lenny Rachitsky So as an example, Zimride, to explore the idea of Lyft, hired their first PM, and his job was go explore this idea of Lyft. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings In the past, Jeff has backed some incredible defining companies, such as Wish, Lyft, Newbank, Rigup, Vassell, Anduril, and many more.
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:59 unnamed speaker You know, they're just like, if you don't do it with us, we're going to do it with Lyft and destroy you.
20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H
- ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings Think Shopify, think Lyft, and Kickstarter.
- ▶ 38:00 Harry Stebbings Think Shopify, think Lyft, and Kickstarter.
20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- ▶ 1:33 Harry Stebbings Think Shopify, think Lyft, and Kickstarter.
- ▶ 40:00 Harry Stebbings Think Lyft.
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- ▶ 1:45 Harry Stebbings Think Shopify, think Lyft, and Kickstarter.
- ▶ 43:06 Harry Stebbings Think Lyft.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 1:08:36 Chris Sacca You know, they're just like, if you don't do it with us, we're going to do it with Lyft and destroy you.
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
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings and so I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat Anne Muraco, co-founding partner at Floodgate, one of the leading early stage firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Twitch, Lyft, Okta, Outreach, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings I love a good story, and so we're obviously focusing on, you know, Lyft and the early Zimride journey, and so when we go back, paint the picture for me.
- ▶ 7:58 Ann Miura-Ko In reality, what happened with Lyft was that Zimride went through hundreds of iterations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Harry Stebbings I do want to go back to Lyft though, because when we think about those iterations, and then kind of to where it is more in the model today, when was it clear the newer Lyft model was very much working? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:49 Ann Miura-Ko Do we divert basically 90% of the resources to lift?
- ▶ 19:25 Ann Miura-Ko And what I found with Lyft, and John and Logan in particular, is you can be 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:18 Ann Miura-Ko And you say, okay, close your eyes now and say, is this for Zimride or is it for Lyft? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:57 Ann Miura-Ko But I know, like, for a while there, there were moments where I think Lyft had just a few months of cash left.
- ▶ 33:03 Harry Stebbings I do want to move into my favorite though, which is a quick fire round, as you know, but this one's focused on Lyft, so this one's a little bit different. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:04 Ann Miura-Ko We were having dinner at my house, and I had invited John and Logan and their wives over to our house for dinner, and Mike came up to our house, and he was coming in a Lyft, and he told the Lyft driver, you won't believe who's eating… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 46:02 Harry Stebbings Later this week, we have The Memo on Lyft with Anne Muraco at Floodgate.
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm excited to welcome back Layla Sturdy, General Partner at Capital G, Alphabet's independent growth fund with investments in the likes of Stripe, UiPath, Looker, Robinhood, and Lyft, to name a few.
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