Time Warner
includes Time Warner Investments
4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2017 by John Borthwick · said 22 times in 9 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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- SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2019 3 mentions in 1 episode
2017 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- 20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- 20VC: Can Founders Really Trust Their VC & How To Navigate The Acquisition Process Successfully with Josh Felser, Co-Founder @ Freestyle.vc
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Everything said about Time Warner, oldest first
Mar 6, 2017 neutral
Borthwick: Time Warner's Corporate HQ Is a Thin Holding Company of Lawyers
“Time Warner is a big company. It's in essence a holding company. Most people don't realize that, but it's, you know, the corporate entity is, is fairly thin, and it's mostly inhabited by lawyers and accountants, the corporate headquarters, and all of the sort …”
Mar 6, 2017 negative
Borthwick: Time Warner Has Failed to Adapt to Evolving Digital Video Distribution
“They are not a technology company, and they've really struggled, you know, over the years to understand how they interface with new forms of distribution, new technology, and how they integrate that both into their business to make their business run better, b…”
Aug 23, 2017 neutral
Time Warner Investments maintains a 50/50 balance between financial and strategic returns
“I think for us, it's definitely both. So we need to make money. You know, we want to be competitive with VC returns and make money for our shareholders and our company. But the strategic piece for us is equally important. So it's sort of a fifty-fifty.”
Feb 18, 2019 positive
Case: AOL went public at a $70M valuation before peaking at $160B
“We were the first internet company to go public in the 1992. We raised ten million dollars in our IPO. The market value that day was seventy million dollars. And seven, eight years later, when we were negotiating the merger with Time Warner, it had gone from s…”