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20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 25:29 Rebecca Lynn So the biggest miss was Uber and Travis Kalanick was actually in my office with 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings SignalFire's portfolio includes the likes of Uber, ClassDojo, and Roxbox, just to name a few.
- ▶ 9:42 Chris Farmer Uber than we look like Mattermark in that sense.
- ▶ 18:37 Chris Farmer And I think data and technology plays a key role in that much of the same way that sort of Airbnb and Uber using technology to take sort of antiquated and, you know, analog models, uh, in their respective industries and really streamline…
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings No, I agree with you, and I see similar transferables in terms of kind of your Uber and Lyfts,
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 8:41 Balaji Srinivasan And, you know, there's, there's going to be, you know, businesses that are built in that space continually, but what's happened over the last five, 10 years is, uh, that, uh, you know, you've got businesses like Uber, Airbnb, things in… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Harry Stebbings And the first is then to what extent you agree with the archetypal notion of kind of Silicon Valley marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb have moved fast and break things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 Balaji Srinivasan And so the dark night would be like Uber or early PayPal, where you take something where the market popularity of it or the market demand for it is unquestionable.
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 9:55 Rick Marini Um, there's a very good chance you're not going to find the next Uber, Facebook, or Snapchat, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:36 Rick Marini As an example, Uber and Lyft. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
- ▶ 7:45 unnamed speaker You know, you have entire ecosystems around Google and Uber and Facebook where they're effectively AI companies leveraging the large data sets, but you'll also see this push from consumers to have more control.
- ▶ 19:09 Harry Stebbings Do you think it will be a very fragmented market, or do you think it will be very much a winner-takes-all in the form of Tesla, Google, Uber?
20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- ▶ 10:55 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, would you not consider Uber to be, to be one, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:26 Harry Stebbings And we mentioned the rise of on demand there with the likes of Uber and the accessibility that Uber allows people with regards to revenue generation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:42 Justin Caldbeck My biggest miss far and away was Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:59 Justin Caldbeck It was, it was Uber black car.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 20:43 Mamoon Hamid If you look at Uber as a private company, they could have just been happy being a taxi cab, taxi company, but they're doing autonomous vehicles.
- ▶ 21:54 Mamoon Hamid Because I think if you think about Uber and autonomous vehicles or Airbnb housing, it's like you're, we're talking about like, you're thinking five steps ahead, but you're like, you're really trying to earn the privilege to the step five. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- ▶ 7:32 Nav Athwal If you think about, for example, Airbnb or Uber, if it took 10 minutes to get a car, if it took, you know, 20 minutes to get a car, the experience isn't any much, any better than it would be if you were hailing a taxi.
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 27:19 Moisey Uretsky And really thinking about it from the 10 year cycle, if you look at some of the greatest companies in the world, I think it's easy to get distracted sometimes by companies like Uber, uh, you know, and Instagram.
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 10:49 Karthik Sridharan In the same way that, you know, for Uber, you know, I've read in the past and I'm sure this is always changing, uh, as it is for every marketplace that their kind of definition of liquidity was, well, what is the average time that it takes… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:23 Karthik Sridharan Do they have Uber Eats?
- ▶ 12:07 Harry Stebbings I'm really pleased you mentioned Uber there.
20VC: The 3 Things LPs Want To See From VCs & Why The Table Stakes For VCs Is Higher Than Ever with Judith Elsea, Co-Founder @ Weathergage Capital
- ▶ 4:44 Judith Elsea Um, and I think that's because, you know, entrepreneurs are taking these big risks every day, trying to create new stuff, and some of it's trivial, but some of it's extraordinary, and I, I just think that's fascinating, and if you'll… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 8:32 Ryan Sarver There's the cliche things, like, make sure you're working in big markets, or markets that you think can get big over time, uh, and then I think, you know, having, being close to Travis and Ryan Graves and Garrett, kind of the early days of… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:55 Ryan Sarver So recently we had, uh, Meena Radhakrishnan, who was the head of product at Uber, uh, from kind of its earliest days until about a year or a year and a half ago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Ryan Sarver But I think what got us excited about that was I'd been close with Travis and Ryan and Garrett and kind of the early Uber days. 2 times in the scene
20VC: What Is Wrong With The VC Industry, Why VC Is A Customer Service Game and Why Car Ownership Will Be A Thing Of The Past with Brett DeMarrais, Partner @ Ludlow Ventures
- ▶ 7:34 Brett DeMarrais So there's a common emotional experience that I think, you know, most entrepreneurs go through, whether you're, you know, Travis at Uber or you're Joe in Iowa, you know, running a plumbing company, whatever.
- ▶ 15:57 Brett DeMarrais A lot of interesting design things, and so, like, in the future, I wouldn't be surprised if when you call an Uber instead of, you know, Uber XL, or Uber Black, or Uber Pool, or whatever, it's Uber Sleep. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:57 Brett DeMarrais A lot of interesting design things, and so, like, in the future, I wouldn't be surprised if when you call an Uber instead of, you know, Uber XL, or Uber Black, or Uber Pool, or whatever, it's Uber Sleep.
- ▶ 15:57 Brett DeMarrais A lot of interesting design things, and so, like, in the future, I wouldn't be surprised if when you call an Uber instead of, you know, Uber XL, or Uber Black, or Uber Pool, or whatever, it's Uber Sleep.
- ▶ 15:57 Brett DeMarrais A lot of interesting design things, and so, like, in the future, I wouldn't be surprised if when you call an Uber instead of, you know, Uber XL, or Uber Black, or Uber Pool, or whatever, it's Uber Sleep.
20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners
- ▶ 4:34 Jesse Middleton Fund could return, and I've heard you talk about this with other investors on the show, you know, funds will return all different amounts, but if you wind up backing one Uber, one WeWork, one Airbnb, uh, one Facebook, you know, that's,…
- ▶ 11:12 Jesse Middleton Like, how often did the first investors in Uber or Airbnb or WeWork, you know, feel the way that I'm feeling now?
20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- ▶ 9:52 Peter Pham Well, I'll, you know, back then, I always say I'm their Uber driver, and I just want to, and I'll sit quietly in the corner, but generally, I don't sit quietly.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 12:08 Dave McClure So I don't really think that there's as much correlation with, hey, this seed round or this A round is really hot, and later that becomes Uber.
- ▶ 23:30 Dave McClure Uh, clearly Uber was the deal that I totally fucked up.
20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Matt is the co-managing partner and co-founder at Data Collective, and he has over three decades of experience as a tech entrepreneur and VC, and has made investments in the likes of Facebook, Zynga, Uber, and AngelList, just to name a few.
- ▶ 18:44 Matt Ocko And with companies, especially the kind of deep tech companies and companies in general, whether it's, uh, Uber or Airbnb, running out the clock on an IPO as long as humanly possible
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 15:34 Sean Flynn And that, that's what allowed companies like Uber.
- ▶ 18:31 Sean Flynn It's not booking a taxi or booking an Uber that I think is native to that experience, but it's things that happen between two individuals or a group of individuals when they're communicating.
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
- ▶ 6:39 Kyle Hill You know, I speak at a lot of different, uh, healthcare conferences, and the first thing anyone wants to say is, oh, you're the Uber for caregiving, and I almost shout on stage, and I said, hell no, we're not the Uber for caregiving, and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:46 Kyle Hill I think the Airbnb, even the dog vacays, even Uber in the early days, and there was a little, you know, I think Airbnb was probably the biggest example where they're like, this could not work.
20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- ▶ 6:28 Harry Stebbings Uh, but as being described as the Uber for fuel. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:25 Harry Stebbings I think, I think it's a really refreshing approach to regulation, not being kind of downhearted by ordering the Uber, uh, move fast and break things, and then try and worm the way out of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:55 Harry Stebbings She said that you've, she actually just tipped me off on this one, so it's not a question so much that I, I want to know about, but it's, uh, you have a pretty different vision for the company and the world, according to Angela, uh, beyond…
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 6:56 Michael Kim Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit to start what effectively become, ah, the, the shared economy.
- ▶ 19:26 Michael Kim There are a lot of studies that show, particularly in private equity, that returns actually increase coming out of, out of recessions, and as I mentioned, great companies can be formed coming out of a recession like Uber or Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 21:24 Ann Miura-Ko Because up until that moment, all I'd seen was Uber black cars, and so I think that that moment of understanding the possible implications of that kind of transportation network, and now as we layer on top of that autonomous vehicles, the…
- ▶ 26:14 Ann Miura-Ko When you got into a car, it usually had a pink, huge, gigantic, furry, pink mustache on the front of the car, and you'd go and you'd fist bump the driver and you'd sit in the front, and so that was really how they differentiated the…
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 5:49 David Cohen Fourth investment I made was in a company called Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:04 Harry Stebbings And we're going to discuss bullet time now and the strategy going forward, as you said, Uber, Twilio, just to name a few there.
- ▶ 9:32 David Cohen Uh, and when you see Uber for the first time, or you see, you know, a company that ultimately didn't do well, you're just as excited about both of them.
- ▶ 19:01 Harry Stebbings How did you meet Ryan Graves at Uber, and how did the Uber deal come about? 9 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 21:05 Annie Kadavy You think of Uber.
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Who've backed the likes of Twitter, Snapchat, Dropbox, Uber, and Instagram, just to name a few.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 10:06 Nabeel Hyatt Now, you would have never modeled your way into saying, I'm looking for Uber, but when Uber walks in the door, you know, you might say, oh, well, this is the enabling technology.
- ▶ 20:25 Nabeel Hyatt Everyone believed that Uber and Google, probably, you know, the big companies were going to run away with this, and it wasn't really a startup scheme.
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 9:46 unnamed speaker And a new type of approach, something like Uber or Lyft, for example, or Google or Tesla, will actually lead to, you know, the approach that catalyzes this autonomous transportation revolution. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Harry Stebbings But you did mention Uber there, and so the next logical question for us is, is who owns these cars? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- ▶ 14:06 Aaron Hirschhorn And probably the best example of that is, is UberX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:50 Aaron Hirschhorn Like, I'm an investor in a business called Hop Skip Drive, which is effectively an Uber for kids, and you can put your kids over seven years old and in the back of a car with a car seat or booster if they need it, and drive them to their…
20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First
- ▶ 10:53 Harry Stebbings He had no kind of innate knowledge of the taxi industry globally, but his abilities as a founder and as a person allowed him to scale Uber to what it is.
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 13:41 Charles Hudson Postmates did not have meaningful delivery volume at all, but this was sort of in the shadow of Uber, and I think the knowledge that, hey, a subset of people are comfortable ordering a car from a stranger using an app gives us confidence…
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 9:50 Chris Morton You know, our view is that we can build a better experience using engineering data scientists, science, much like, uh, you know, the folks at Airbnb don't operate any hotels, the folks at Uber don't operate any cars.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 4:13 James Wise We've got people who worked at Google and Uber.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 24:31 Aydin Senkut Uh, passed on Uber, passed on Airbnb, passed on Pinterest. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant
- ▶ 7:31 Gagan Biyani Yeah, I mean, so I think that ultimately, if you look at the story of Amazon, um, or Uber, Sprig has a lot in common with that in terms of what market we're facing, which is a market where you would not necessarily expect that the, uh,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:54 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned Uber there, and Uber probably are the masters of the model of aggressive expansion into new markets. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 22:30 Sarah Tavel Um, and the examples I gave in my blog posts are things like Airbnb and Uber and Netflix even, I mean, transfer wise, there's, there's a long list of companies that fit that.
20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
- ▶ 11:09 Rebecca Kaden Ordering your food or your Uber or anything else. 2 times in the scene
Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And over the past eight years, Rob has led their investments in the likes of Mint.com, acquired by Intuit, Uber, Square, Nip, acquired by Twitter, and Eero, just to name a few of their incredible portfolio companies.
- ▶ 4:56 Harry Stebbings So we're going to break it up into two segments, your investment in Uber, which was a particular favorite among the crowdsource questions. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:22 Rob Hayes Uh, one was, you know, early on they received, there was perceived to be a lot of regulatory risk for the company. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:33 Harry Stebbings Does it make kind of any, uh, you know, once you have such a success like Uber, everything else may seem a little, uh, less successful. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 Harry Stebbings You got Uber. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings We've got Uber, we've got Twitter, we've got Stripe, Optimizely, just to name a few.
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 3:29 Niccolo De Masi You get to the same end point, which is, if you study the way venture portfolios are built, they would not be in business if they didn't have the one Uber winner.
- ▶ 16:12 Niccolo De Masi I mean, other than Uber and Airbnb, I can't think of you with the same sort of network effects.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 24:00 Christian Hernandez Um, but no, I mean, realistically, things that I could not do without is, is, um, is probably Uber.
20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation
- ▶ 7:17 Tyler Willis Uh, now if you're, you know, able to provide even just .1% of value to Uber, uh,
20 VC FF 034: What Fintech Can Learn From Uber and The Shift From Financial Organisation To Financial Efficiency with Kelly Peeler, Founder & CEO @ NextGenVest
- ▶ 12:32 Kelly Peeler So, I mean, I draw that very much so from Uber as well. 2 times in the scene
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 5:39 James Cameron And then you see these other companies, these big companies like Uber and, uh, Hotel Tonight and Instacart that are all being built on top of other people's services, all being connected up via APIs.
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 7:41 Fred Destin What we're doing is bringing a new kind of service to people who've never used food delivery before, and it's a bit like Uber, 2 times in the scene
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 7:10 David Tisch but it also brings more talent here, and so you've seen what used to just be Google get joined by an incredible office at Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, Uber all have offices here, and I think you're going to continue to see that…