Rebecca Kaden
18 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2016 by Rebecca Kaden · said 26 times in 13 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (24), Mike Mignano (1), Arielle Zuckerberg (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
2019 4 mentions in 1 episode
2018 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility
- 20VC: The Metrics That Matter In Early-Stage Consumer, Why Moats Matter More Than Brand Today and How VCs Deal with S*** Hit The Fan Moments with Jason Stoffer, Managing Partner @ Maveron
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
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2017 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- 20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
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2016 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- 20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Rebecca Kaden, oldest first
Mar 23, 2016 positive
Kaden: Face-to-face interaction beats public writing for VC pattern recognition
“The strategy that I've taken the most and it could adopt over time is kind of feet on the street, really digging in with entrepreneurs having conversations often face to face and really understanding how they think that's been the most valuable for me in devel…”
Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 bullish
Kaden: Maveron's Allbirds investment scaled with high capital efficiency
“There are companies that are scaling even in direct-to-consumer brands, and they're scaling with capital efficiency, you know, invested in Allbirds at Maveron. It's going really well, and they're extremely capital efficient, and customers love it, and they com…”
Oct 1, 2018 positive
Kaden: Everlane succeeds because shopping there functions as an identity statement
“One thing that I always say about Everlane is that it's become an identifier for a customer. A customer that says, I shop at Everlane, thinks that they're saying something about themselves, not only about what they wear, and I think that's really powerful.”
Oct 1, 2018 bullish
Oct 1, 2018 neutral
Kaden: Internet and blockchain investing require fundamentally different approaches
“You can't approach the internet investing landscape and the blockchain investing landscape in the same way because they're two extremely different profiles of markets and timelines, and we think that has a lot of risk involved.”
Oct 1, 2018 positive
Oct 1, 2018 neutral
Kaden: Direct-to-consumer brand fragmentation is temporary and will consolidate
“I actually think we're right now in a moment of fragmentation where it's just easier than ever to start standalone brands because the channels to speak directly to customers as well as to create a supply chain, manage logistics, build your platform are easier …”
Oct 1, 2018 bearish
Oct 1, 2018 negative
Kaden: Paid ads on Google and Facebook enrich platforms, not startups
“I, you know, I think Peter Fenton's also making a comment on the acquisition landscape where most of paid acquisition is coming through these third party platforms like Facebook or Google, where you're actually largely boosting the equity value of the platform…”
Oct 1, 2018 bearish
Oct 1, 2018 positive
Oct 1, 2018 neutral
Kaden: Investing relying on incumbent acquirers is unpredictable and risky
“I do think there's a continued appetite among the incumbents to buy their way into innovation and the millennial mindset and these new brands, but I think it's very hard to set out as an investor or as an entrepreneur with that intent. I think it's unpredictab…”
Nov 17, 2023 positive
Nov 17, 2023 negative
Kaden: Most struggling startups will die rather than be acquired
“I think we might see a little bit of M&A, but I actually think that M&A is really hard right now. I think you're just going to see a lot of them unfortunately die because M&A works if some other piece has a lot of cash, right? Or has a lot of asset and you're …”
Nov 17, 2023
Nov 17, 2023 bullish
Nov 17, 2023 bullish
Kaden: AI application-layer tools will capture significant market value
“If you believe all of the value is going to aggregate in a very small number of underlying models and platforms, that may be correct, but I think what you're hearing here is there's a tremendous amount of excitement around application layer and point solution …”