ThredUp
7 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2016 by Tomasz Tunguz · said 20 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2018 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Alex Taussig on VC Risk Mentality, The Current State of Retail & The Mechanics of Cash Flow
- 20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- 20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
- 20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
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Everything said about ThredUp, oldest first
Sep 12, 2016 positive
Apr 27, 2018
James Reinhart: Later-Stage Fundraising Does Not Get Easier As Startups Scale
“I think sometimes the narrative is, Hey, you raise these rounds, and they just get easier and easier and easier because the capital, you know, you have to deploy gets bigger, and it's not true. It's hard every time you're asking folks to pick you over just the…”
Apr 27, 2018
Apr 27, 2018
Reinhart: Board advice is valuable for re-examining long-held assumptions
“Every time I have a board meeting, the board asks deceptively simple questions. Things that we either take for granted or that we have believed for so long that we forgot why we believe it. And that level of feedback and inquisitiveness, right, helps us say, h…”
Apr 27, 2018 negative
Reinhart: Fancy offices and extra finance hires do not create enterprise value
“I can tell you that the same decision to have a really fancy office or hire the ninth person on the finance team when we probably only need six, like those decisions actually don't create seven, 10 year enterprise value.”
Apr 27, 2018
Reinhart: Board members lack full operational context to give precise advice
“I think that, look, I think the board, you know, they get incredible market intelligence. They talk to lots of founders. They are in different circles. And so their perspective is quite valuable, but they obviously aren't in the company a hundred hours a week …”
Apr 27, 2018 negative
Reinhart: Customer data showed ThredUp's original peer-to-peer model was wrong
“My vision was to reinvent the second-hand market and make it Better for buyers and sellers in 2010. And what I realized was that building a peer to peer business was not the right way. And that the data and the qualitative feedback from customers suggested tha…”