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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pinterest comes up
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings And before Greylock, Sarah was one of the first 35 employees at Pinterest, where she led the company's international expansion and aided in the closing of the Series C financing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Sarah Tavel And the last investment that I worked on and helped lead was the series A in Pinterest, which was just a product that I loved. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 Harry Stebbings Now, Sarah, you know me, so many things for me to unpack there, and you mentioned your time at Pinterest, so let's start on that and the operating time, because we had Pat Grady at Sequoia on the show before, and he said that never has the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 Sarah Tavel And that is the bet that we will make time and time again, because, you know, when you think about many of the biggest unicorns that, that I think about now today, all of those companies look small in the beginning, you know, Airbnb,…
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings As for Fritz, prior to ClassPass, he was the founder and CEO at Livestar, a mobile recommendation startup that was acquired by Pinterest, and before that, he was a senior director in the corporate strategy group at Microsoft, where he led…
- ▶ 4:46 Fritz Lanman It was a seed investor in Square and Pinterest and Wish and a couple other great ones.
- ▶ 8:09 Fritz Lanman So this one kind of worked out nicely in terms of the previous three were live star, which was sold to Pinterest Doppler, which was not exactly a great outcome, which was well publicized. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Fritz Lanman And so, you know, I kind of made that bet without really understanding the payments industry or Pinterest is another example where I had never been using catalogs and stuff. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 26:32 Max Motschwiller Funding times of the consumer decacorns that are out there, the Ubers, the Lyfts, the Airbnbs, the Snaps, the Pinterest, the Spotifys, those series A's were all done pre-二零 12.
20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- ▶ 24:56 Adrian Aoun I mean, if you had told me when I invested in Pinterest that it was going to do what it has, I would have told you you're crazy. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 22:28 Darian Shirazi If you're writing larger checks and you have something that is already in a developed market and it's showing growth, writing a larger check in themes, it makes sense, but as an angel, you're really looking for the next Pinterest or you're…
20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 11:25 Steve Vassallo I absolutely think to your point, the outcomes in this industry, companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, pocket, and others where we've seen substantial companies, institutions being built around design led teams, I think will help in this…