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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It Sep 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:33 Harry Stebbings And I, I just think being third, the Postmates effect is never a good market to be in when I could be the dominant consumer brand that leads with a really different and compelling story.

NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation Sep 3, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 38:01 Jason Lemkin and I called it the Postmates effect, uh, where I think, I think it was Sequoia said, 5 times in the scene

Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash Aug 17, 2026 · 4 mentions

Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:43 Jake Paul Um, spend as much time, like, in the weeds, but this is, like, something I've always loved since I was 1718 years old, and seeing, you know, in SF, the Ubers, and the Twitters of the world, and Postmates, and getting to see these companies…

Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2025 · 3 mentions

Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 16, 2025 · 4 mentions

Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 8, 2024 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 2:12 Harry Stebbings Was it selling Postmates?
  • ▶ 9:39 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, what was the most memorable wartime moment in the company history of most stress that you remember? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:08 Bastian Lehmann And look, we, we, we raised quite a bit of money. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:06 Bastian Lehmann When we, when we started out, when Postmates started out, this thing sounded so crazy that the only people that wanted to give us money were Brian Singerman and Peter Thiel.
  • ▶ 17:25 Harry Stebbings Someone said that Postmates was running out of cash. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:44 Harry Stebbings How does one price the asset that is Postmates at that stage? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:07 Harry Stebbings Um, someone messaged me and said, basically, Dara's written off the Drizzly in the Postmates acquisition. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:20 Bastian Lehmann I pitched him four times or five times the entire firm, uh, uh, with Postmates.
  • ▶ 34:26 Bastian Lehmann I had, I had very little when I started Postmates and we put it all on that thing, right?

Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:09:27 Guillaume Cabane While you were waiting for the cappuccino that was run by Postmates, we would say, hey, do you have 20 minutes for a demo?

Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 27, 2023 · 3 mentions

Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2023 · 1 mention

Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:14 Jason Lemkin I wrote this at sort of the peak of the media in twenty-twenty-one when I was talking with someone to Sequoia, and they said they called it the Postmates effect. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:57 Harry Stebbings I do just want to finish on the Postmates. 3 times in the scene

Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:58 Emil Michael I think we, instead of buying, um, Kareem in the Middle East, Postmates, Jump Bike, um, 2 times in the scene

20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity Aug 12, 2022 · 1 mention

Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 15, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:10 Peter Singlehurst Um, and I think one of the problems was that we were looking at Postmates at the same time. 2 times in the scene

20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun Nov 11, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics Jan 27, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:42 Alfred Lin And actually, between 20 11 and 20 13, we evaluated opportunities to invest in Grubhub, in Caviar, in Postmates, in TaskRabbit, because I was fascinated with this space.
  • ▶ 37:04 Alfred Lin He didn't care whether it was on DoorDash or it was on Uber Eats or on his competitors on Postmates.

20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021 Nov 19, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, and companies who leverage the Lattice platform see…
  • ▶ 31:56 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, and companies who leverage the Lattice platform see…

20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise? Nov 12, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…

20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation Nov 6, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:10 Harry Stebbings Trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, and companies who leverage the Lattice platform see improvements across a broad spectrum from retention, engagement, and productivity, Lattice is the only solution that…
  • ▶ 34:28 Harry Stebbings ...to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams trusted by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates.

20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley Oct 19, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S Oct 1, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:00 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…

20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda Sep 25, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates,
  • ▶ 49:14 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…

20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale Sep 18, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:59 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…

20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands Sep 11, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:41 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…
  • ▶ 34:10 Harry Stebbings Lattice is rated the number one people management platform by real users to help companies develop engaged and high-performing teams, and because Lattice is trusted now by over 2000 companies like Reddit, Slack, and Postmates, you can…

20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo Jul 31, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:39 Harry Stebbings With Point Card, you can earn five X on subscriptions like Spotify, three X on rideshare and food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on everything else.
  • ▶ 28:47 Harry Stebbings With PointCard, you can earn five X on subscriptions like Spotify, three X on rideshare and food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on everything else.

20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions Jul 27, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings Five X on subscriptions like Spotify, three X on rideshare and food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on everything else.
  • ▶ 46:01 Harry Stebbings With PointCard, you can earn five X on subscriptions like Spotify, three X on rideshare and food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on everything else.

20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance Jul 7, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:22 Harry Stebbings Two X on all dining experiences, including food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on everything else.
  • ▶ 37:54 Harry Stebbings Point is a premium card, the first debit card with rewards from brands that you actually care about, like earn five X on subscriptions like Spotify, two X on all dining experiences, including food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on…

20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Is Overrated, The Downside of Thematic Investing, Making Quality Decisions In Uncertain Conditions & Why He Has No Reserves Allocation Jun 29, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:59 Harry Stebbings Point is a premium card, the first debit card with rewards from brands that you actually care about, like earn five X on subscriptions like Spotify, two X on all dining experiences, including food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on…
  • ▶ 37:30 Harry Stebbings Point is a premium card, the first debit card with rewards from brands that you actually care about, like earn five X on subscriptions like Spotify, two X on all dining experiences, including food delivery apps like Postmates, and one X on…

20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage Mar 25, 2019 · 1 mention

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 Feb 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat, Sam Lesson, founding partner at Slow Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds on the West Coast, with a portfolio including the likes of, check this out, Robinhood, Gusto, Pinterest,…

20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value? May 8, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings They have the likes of Fitbit, SendGrid, Postmates, Front, Poshmark, Eventbrite, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:44 Andy McLoughlin And so I invested 10,000 dollars into this entity that became a company that turned into Postmates. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital Jan 3, 2018 · 1 mention

20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender Oct 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:04 Aaron VanDevender If you think about like where, where a lot of that value to people has come from, it's from companies like Lyft, like Postmates, a Craigslist, Amazon Prime, you know, Tinder, you

20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands Apr 10, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings As one of the key individuals in the Valley, he's invested in over a hundred startups, including the likes of Twitter, Postmates, Uber, Yammer, and Thumbtack, just to name a few of his incredible portfolio companies.

20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero Jul 15, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:54 Kyle Hill You have these homogenous or these homogenous marketplaces, which I call, you know, Uber, Handy, Lyft, Homejoy, Rest in Peace, Instacart, Postmates.

20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve Jun 8, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Postmates, Proletariat, and Thalmic Labs.
  • ▶ 7:39 Nabeel Hyatt And so the, my start, you know, my startup investments tend to be in things that are relatively risky, large bets, like self-driving cars or building a last mile logistics company, which like a hundred other people had failed at and, and…

20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures May 9, 2016 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:56 Charles Hudson and then I think like many of the micro VC firms of that vintage, SoftTech's had a tremendous amount of success backing companies like Shippo and Fitbit and Poshmark and Postmates, and
  • ▶ 13:37 Charles Hudson You know, when I think back to when we first invested in Postmates, 2 times in the scene

20 VC 069: Jeff Clavier, King of Seed Funding @ SoftTech VC on Brad Feld, Fitbit and Standout Startups Sep 7, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint, acquired by Intuit, Brightroll, Milo, acquired by eBay, Bleacher Report, Fitbit, Eventbrite, Postmates, Vungle, and the list goes on.
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