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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures
- ▶ 9:01 Boris Wertz Again, like Uber has been, you know, one of the biggest marketplace successes and it has unlocked, um, kind of the whole transportation vertical as, as marketplace.
- ▶ 13:34 Boris Wertz Very different to a cab driver and kind of Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 Boris Wertz Um, you know, we, we've seen a few that have already scaled, uh, Uber being the best example, but, but have, have also made,
- ▶ 25:14 Boris Wertz Uh, at some stage, you know, kind of people said, uh, kind of, I'm going to create the Uber for X, for vertical X. 3 times in the scene
20 VC: Are Unicorns Necessary To Make Big Returns and The Series A Crunch with Sumeet Shah @ Brand Foundry Ventures
- ▶ 17:37 Sumeet Shah That needs to exist, because we would never have the Googles, the Facebooks, the, you know, the Ubers, the Etc. of the, the Airbnbs of the world, primarily because these big ideas probably would not have gotten funded in New York, because…
20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
- ▶ 6:06 Erin Glenn They think there's an incredible opportunity and likelihood that investors are going to be pleased and taken advantage of that with all of the hype about potential to invest in the next Facebook or Uber.
20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 12:54 Samir Kaji And I think, you know, if you think about what fuels that is, um, the fact that, you know, the companies that today that are, that are getting headlines are the Twitters and Facebooks, the Ubers of the world versus, you know, in the past…
20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO
- ▶ 14:55 Suranga Chandratilake So in the same way that, you know, a company like Uber could not have possibly existed
- ▶ 20:50 Suranga Chandratilake Um, so, you know, Lars really has, if you look at his background, he's a very early employee of both Uber and Dropbox.
20 VC 089: Eric Paley @ Founder Collective on Outliers, Inspirational Founders and Pro Rata
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings And Founder Collective, if you're not aware, is one of the world's most prestigious and successful seed funds, with investments in the likes of Uber, MakerBot, About.me, and Chris Dixon's Hunch.
- ▶ 15:04 Harry Stebbings With the exceptions of, you know, your Ubers, is it not hard to see how a fund makes a significant return from investing a smaller amount like the 200,000 dollars? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:27 Harry Stebbings So do you feel that you miss out then financially by not doing the follow-on rounds with, with the likes of your Uber, who are clearly rocket ships? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:57 Eric Paley This is a pretty quirky one, and I always tell everyone, at the time we invest in any company, um, the company's, uh, story isn't built out yet, and so what later one day becomes Uber at the beginning just sounds like another ground…
20 VC 088: David Frankel @ Founder Collective: The Most Founder Friendly VC in Existence
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Founder Collective, with investments in the likes of Uber, Chris Dixon's Hunch, About.me, MakerBot, and many, many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 16:19 Harry Stebbings And then one of the companies that is in the FC portfolio is obviously Uber. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 085: Mark Suster @ Upfront Ventures on Being A Super Entrepreneur Driven VC
- ▶ 13:21 Mark Suster Um, and my bet is that this entrepreneur is gonna create something out of nothing, and when they get hit in the gut by Uber, or Facebook, or Disney, or Fox, or Google, or anyone, that they're gonna find a way around that.
20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
- ▶ 26:21 Patricia Nakache Um, there, there's just less of a need for it to be, um, to be, to be truly, you know, an immediately delivered service.
20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings And he also founded JustBecause, a mobile app used by Uber, Birchbox, Jackthreads, and many other e-commerce companies for customer acquisition.
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 29:27 Fabrice Grinda And that's true of Uber. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
- ▶ 13:04 Eric Ver Ploeg Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:31 Eric Ver Ploeg I mean, you know, Uber and Airbnb are the, the two poster children of
FF 011: 'The Savviest Investors Don't Ask What If' with Ben Nader, CEO & Founder @ Butterfleye
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 26:44 unnamed speaker He's invested in, uh, gosh, Twitter and, uh, seed investor into Uber and other things, and he's just, um,
20 VC 066: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Seth Levine: 'VC Is Not A Scalable Business'
- ▶ 9:55 Harry Stebbings You know, Uber, Airbnb, etc.
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 8:15 Ezra Galston If you ask Uber or Instacart,
20 VC 059: How To Approach VCs with Arteen Arabshahi, VC @ Karlin Ventures
- ▶ 17:08 Arteen Arabshahi So like Uber, um, Airbnb, like the, you know, I, I think, I think taxis are pretty much taken care of at this point. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 24:16 Harry Stebbings And then, let's talk about Uber. 6 times in the scene
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 15:05 Doug Scott I an Uber or Google, you know, they're complete extremes.
James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 7:36 James Altucher Now, I could write down 10 colors, and, you know, that's easy, but if I want to write down, like, let's say, 10 business ideas, or 10 ways, um, you know, Uber could improve itself, or Google could improve itself, that's actually very hard.
- ▶ 11:02 Harry Stebbings And you said, obviously, smarter people than you, but if you have a VC who says, James, I'm going in on Uber, just say, which VCs would you automatically follow, no matter what?
- ▶ 13:39 James Altucher Like, there's stuff that, there are businesses out there that are obviously bad, but if someone's got, like, I don't know, the Uber of parking spaces, is that a good idea or a bad idea?
- ▶ 15:27 Harry Stebbings Will Uber be a trillion dollar company? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:55 James Altucher Uh, I've been waiting since I was a kid for Uber. 6 times in the scene
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings He's one of the greatest angel investors in the world with over 60 angel investments, including the likes of Uber and Thumbtack, just to name a few.
- ▶ 3:52 Harry Stebbings So I'd love to start by hearing about Uber.
- ▶ 14:56 Jason Calacanis I was the angel investor in Uber, Bill Gurley did the A round, Shervin did the B, not that actually I introduced him to the companies, they got there themselves, but the point is, I do like to bring the ball up the court to roll off both… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:32 Jason Calacanis There's enough people on the planet who I'm good friends with, and I try, you know, Travis and I are very good friends, you know, from Uber and have been for a long time.
- ▶ 45:55 Jason Calacanis Um, you know, Thumbtack and Uber,
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 21:27 Keith Teare And then at the growth stage, at the other end, there's more than a hundred billion dollars available if you are lucky enough to get traction and become an Uber or a Snapchat.
20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall
- ▶ 12:56 Matthew McCall I mean, think about Uber. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones
- ▶ 16:39 Thomas Jones I think, um, let's say Uber, um, I'm kind of horrified at the, at the valuations it's achieved, and yet, 5 times in the scene