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Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:45 unnamed speaker We couldn't afford it anymore, so we outsourced it through Odesk, which is now Upwork at the time, to a team in India, and there's a lot of amazing development teams in India, but this wasn't one of them, um, and so we had about 400…
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:24 Harry Stebbings It's like Odesk or Elance or any of these businesses.
20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun
- ▶ 6:48 Roger Dickey Even sites like Odesk, Elance, they've tried to expand on this a little bit.
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Prior to life as a VC, though, Josh was part of the founding team at Odesk, he was a co-founder at Rev, and the head of product and marketing at AdRoll.
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 21:02 Melanie Perkins In our very early days, we used, um, it was called Odessa then, but now Upwork, and that was extremely helpful.