Maynard Webb

8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2018 by Maynard Webb · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Sep 28, 2018
Assertion Partly supported
Webb: eBay grew from 300 to 14,000 employees during his tenure
“When I joined eBay, I think we had 300 people. When I left, we had 14,000.”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 14:40 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
Sep 28, 2018 negative
Insight
Webb: Expecting strong work-life balance as a CEO is impractical
“The top jobs require lots of energy and time, and that doesn't mean you can't find moments and have a great family, and I want you to do that, but it's really hard. So I think people that dream about having the best jobs in the world and the best work-life bal…”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 29:55 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
Sep 28, 2018 negative
Insight
Webb: A lack of market competition usually signals an unimportant problem
“If you don't have any competition, you're probably working on something that you actually, either you're so smart that no one else can figure out how to do and the world needs, or more likely, no one thinks they need it, and you might not be working on somethi…”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 25:12 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
Sep 28, 2018
Insight
Webb: High-quality startups take over ten years to reach an IPO
“The good ones all take generally over 10 years to get to a liquidity event if it's going public”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 7:44 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
Sep 28, 2018
Disclosure
Webb: Maynard Webb invests $5M to $7M of personal capital annually
“I'm investing five to seven million a year, which is a lot of my personal money, and so I'm very selective in going deeper into later rounds.”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 10:40 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
Sep 28, 2018
Assertion Supported
Webb: Seed round valuation caps were around $5 million in 2010
“When I started in 2010 doing Web Investment Network, a cap on a seed around it was more like a five, and today that's higher than that.”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 8:39 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
Sep 28, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Webb: The 2018 venture capital market is less frothy than 2000
“I don't think it's nearly as frothy as what I saw in the 2000.”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 6:48 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
Sep 28, 2018
Insight
Webb: External rockstars often make worse hires than internal stretch candidates
“Some of my worst hires were when I went outside to get the Rockstar that had done the job way before, but they didn't want to do it again. And some of my best hires were when I gave my internal team a chance, and they stepped up in a big way”
Maynard Webb Sep 28, 2018 ▶ 14:50 20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
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