Tradeshift
also referred to as: trade shift
19 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 6 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 4, 2016 by Morten Lund · said 36 times in 4 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (13), Christian Lanng (11), Matt Ocko (8)
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2023 27 mentions in 2 episodes 14 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Tradeshift, oldest first
Jan 4, 2016 neutral
Lund: Enterprise fintech growth depends on closing massive initial clients
“The ability to close huge clients, because the whole equation wouldn't work unless you had some really, really large companies who would, you know, buy into this vision, even though it was a very unstable young company. And that, I think, was the founder's, yo…”
Aug 8, 2016 bullish
Tradeshift serves 1M businesses, dwarfing competitor Ariba's footprint
“They have almost a million discrete companies in a 140 countries worldwide from tiny companies in China up to a huge chunk of the fortune 100 addicted to their stuff. And they dwarf the footprint of Ariba and any other, you know, would be competitor.”
Mar 24, 2017 positive
Free renewable energy is crucial to cushion technological job displacement
“The thing you really need to invest in is actually free renewable energy, because if you have free renewable energy, we have less of a social impact as jobs go, because we can actually produce food, we can produce almost anything we want, and it gets a little …”
Mar 24, 2017 bullish
Network-connected software is the next major evolution in B2B enterprise
“The thing we saw very early on was in the consumer world, we were all moving to networks. This idea that cloud was going to be about the same applications as we had on our desktop, but delivered through the browser was breaking down and we saw a whole new gene…”
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 24, 2017 negative
Ariba acts as a toll gate, extracting 80% of revenue from suppliers
“One of our competitors, you know, Ariba, they've for a long time gone out to these huge companies and said, hey, we will help you Digitize your supply chain, and you just got to buy our platform, and then they go and they invite all of the suppliers in the sup…”
Mar 24, 2017 positive
Down-cycle fundraising offers less competition and higher investor visibility
“If you're doing it in a down cycle, You actually, you know, you, you're lucky to start with less competition. You need to fight harder, of course, for the money, but you can also stand out more. You know, the investors are not seeing a hundred pitches a day fo…”
Mar 24, 2017 negative
Pitching on stage at VC conferences is an ineffective fundraising strategy
“I never really liked this idea of going, like, you know, to some conference and standing on a stage and pitching myself in front of 50 VCs. I don't think that's a very good way to get attention. I think there's a lot of connectors in the ecosystem. Getting to …”
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Lanng: TradeShift Had a Skype Group Celebrating Work at 2 AM
“We used to have a Skype group, and Skype was a thing of a few people in the company that was called, Late night motherfucking XYZ. And that was because at two AM we were all sitting, solving some problem, getting something done, getting somewhere, and we were …”
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023
Lanng: Prioritizing personal happiness would have ruined Tradeshift
“I mean, I made some decisions where I could have gone a different path, I could have gone a very different path, and probably You know, had a very different outcome and been happier, but it would not, I mean, it would have been a disaster for the company and f…”
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Sep 27, 2023 positive
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023 bearish
Sep 27, 2023
Lanng refused to sign Tradeshift round without protecting employee stock options
“In the latest financing round for trade shift, I refused to sign the papers until the employee stock option pool got moved from common to prep two, because I did not want All of our employees to be underwater in any potential transaction in the future.”
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023 negative
Christian Lanng: Pandemic burnout made me hate seeing Tradeshift's logo
“Suddenly I was just sitting, you know, for 14:16 hours in front of a screen every day, no breaks. I remember having to sort of, like, schedule bio breaks just to be able to run to the restroom, and the rest was just one continuous stream, and I remember, this …”