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Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:38 Miki Kuusi Uh, and we had this session in Amsterdam for, for eight hours, we were talking about the booking story and he was an early investor in Uber 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:01 Miki Kuusi It was the, like, the horrible year of our industry, like, no one believed in delivery anymore, and Uber is gonna kill anyone, everyone anyway, and no one could raise money, and like, when we tried to raise our Series B, everyone said no.
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Uber, and many more incredible hypergrowth companies.
- ▶ 10:58 Harry Stebbings Before that, Ed was VP of product and growth at Uber from 2013 to 2017. 7 times in the scene
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:25 Semil Shah Bought two cars right when Uber was taking off and I didn't live in the city.
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:29 Martin Escobari So, one of my mistakes as an investor is, uh, Anton, my friend, uh, Anton Levy, co-president of the farm, invited me to look at Uber, the two billion dollar round, because of the international opportunity, and we went, and we met Travis, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Martin Escobari Launching UberX and UberEats and all the, all these, all the extensions that, that Uber did, and we missed it.
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:19 Harry Stebbings It's, uh, you know, I just had Emil Michael on from Uber and obviously that was delete Uber. 2 times in the scene
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:45 Emil Michael I mean, that's, I feel like where I got my first grit and, you know, we had to have a lot of grit for Uber later on, but, but, uh, we started telling me in 1999.
- ▶ 11:55 unnamed speaker Now, now, to be fair, I, I had the Uber situation on top of that, so now I've a lot more cushion.
- ▶ 20:43 Emil Michael Doing the, the Uber China acquisition with Didi, the Chinese counterpart, because there's a lot of suspicion.
- ▶ 25:44 Emil Michael We showed up in, you know, Hangzhou and in Hunan province, and we just launched Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:31 Emil Michael He said, I heard a lot about Uber. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:44 Emil Michael Um, we got some great people that, that are now running Uber Freight.
- ▶ 37:31 Emil Michael I, I, I, you know, Lime had to do one a couple of years ago, um, the scooter company and Uber put in a hundred million dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:13 Emil Michael If you invest thirty three million dollars in Uber and it looks like ten billion four years later, ten billion on a thirty three million investment. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Emil Michael The company's valuation 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:52 Harry Stebbings You spoke about Uber Freight.
- ▶ 50:03 Emil Michael So even if you think Instacart's a fifteen billion dollar business, I think we could have built a sixty billion dollar business globally on that, on top of Eats, which was another, another 60 to a hundred billion if we'd won DoorDash, and…
- ▶ 52:36 Harry Stebbings Unavoidable misalignments that even if you're both phenomenally good human beings, there are times and situations where if I have a hundred million dollar fund and you're giving me ten billion dollars back from Uber, like it makes more… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:50 Emil Michael And if money's too tight, maybe we wouldn't have gone into Uber Eats.
- ▶ 1:03:59 Emil Michael I don't know how I could have done the work that I would wanted to do at Uber, 70 hours a week, and no one was telling me to do it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:33 Emil Michael Um, being invited to be the CEO of Uber. 4 times in the scene
Fivetran's Lauren Schwartz: Must-Ask Questions to Identify Potential Sales Talent | 20VC #939 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:04 Harry Stebbings He was like, you know, if you go to the Twilio salesperson who sold Airbnb, Uber in 2008, when it was like product-led growth, maybe a little bit of hand-holding, but not really.
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:30 Harry Stebbings From your Airbnbs and your Ubers to your Twilios of the world in enterprise.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:18 Tarek Mansour I mean, that guy could raise a hundred billion dollars.
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:31 Sebastian Kanovich Airbnb came to us and Uber came to us and say, we want to do the opposite flow.
Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:57 Harry Stebbings Like if you, you know, he gave Twilio as an example, you worked at Twilio in 2009 and you signed Uber and Airbnb and everyone, you're going to be like the greatest sales rep in history, um, which may be, you know, misleading.
- ▶ 34:58 Eleanor Dorfman Um, so again, it's sort of, sort of how like great companies can come out of recessions and Uber came out of 2008 and all of these now name brand companies.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:05 Harry Stebbings As a pre-seed investor in B-Real, I now feel like Jason Calacanis with Uber in this moment.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:27 Harry Stebbings Uber, black cabs in San Francisco.
Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:29 Jordan Van Horn Well, I go close like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb when they're 15 person companies and they just need like a messaging service, right?
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:32 Sheel Mohnot And you've seen it with the likes of Uber, you know, today, a fifty billion dollar enterprise value.
20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
- ▶ 4:53 Harry Stebbings Some of Bill's previous winners include Uber, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, and Michael's include Lemonade, Melio, and HoneyBook, to name a few for each.
- ▶ 9:02 Harry Stebbings Some of Cyan's biggest hits include Uber, Affirm, Opendoor, Postmates,
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:11 Mo Koyfman Um, I joined the strategic planning team who, interestingly enough, we were just talking about this, was then being run by Dara Khosrowshahi, who's now the current CEO of Uber, who hired me into IAC, as well as a guy named Jeremy Liu, who…
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:03 Tony Fadell Ubers, all that stuff.
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:42 Daniel Yanisse So, 2019, you know, was, was, was starting to get some business, um, headwinds because we grew very fast in the gig economy and with tech customers and those companies like, you know, Uber, DoorDash and others went public at those days and…
20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
- ▶ 22:39 Fabrice Grinda The most interesting companies in the last decade were all created in the oh seven, oh nine recession, Uber, Airbnb.
Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:24 Aydin Senkut Having missed Airbnb and Uber. 2 times in the scene
Oren Zeev: How I Raised $1 BILLION in 12 Months | 20VC #888 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:23 Fabrice Grinda Uber, Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:52 Fabrice Grinda Okay, so here, so in similar example, Uber, I saw it before, like at two billion pre, I'm like, I, I, I'm like, I wrote in my debrief of the call,
20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- ▶ 15:27 Darius Contractor The model that people think about is like Facebook and Uber, where you have this supposedly single brilliant person who leads the company to 10 X or hundred X.
20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- ▶ 21:42 Fabrice Grinda Uber, Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 6:09 Jason Lemkin And we look at all the individual investors in Uber that became decamillionaires out of you're like, wow, I could have done that.
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 21:30 Aparna Chennapragada If you worked in Uber, it should roughly kind of work in Google.
20VC: Founding Legendary Entertainment and Creating Batman, The Hangover and 300, The Importance of Luck vs Skill in Success, How Relationships to Money Change & Why Velocity is the Most Important Factor in Company Building Success with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 33:07 Thomas Tull I had an opportunity to invest in Uber and
20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- ▶ 15:06 Eddie Vivas Not to criticize Instacart or Uber, but if you think of a spectrum of, like, I work in a good economy or passion economy, one is I'm delivering a good or a person somewhere, and the other one is monetizing my passion and my knowledge, and…
20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings Now, normally we're on the investor side of the table, but today we turn to the operators, the team members who built these behemoth businesses, to unpack their biggest lessons from leading teams and products at companies like Facebook,…
- ▶ 6:18 Harry Stebbings Casey, but now I want to dive into an incredible show with Ed Baker, formerly head of growth at Uber.
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 5:51 David Friedberg I mean, look at Airbnb and hotels and Uber and
- ▶ 12:31 David Friedberg They do not think they would have as successful as they were if Travis was still CEO of Uber.
20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings And previously, Ed was the VP of Product and Growth at Uber from
- ▶ 2:53 Harry Stebbings So tell me, when you think about how you made your way into the world of startups, and how you came to lead some of the most powerful and fantastic growth organizations with the likes of Facebook and Uber, what did that entry into startups… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:09 Harry Stebbings You mentioned, you know, the times at Facebook and Uber there.
- ▶ 7:17 Harry Stebbings In terms of Uber, I mean, it's another just incredible story. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:42 Harry Stebbings Can I ask as an example, sorry, for like Facebook and Uber, what would the North Star metric be? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Ed Baker And that's actually why I decided to go to both Facebook and Uber was I felt like those companies clearly had found product market fit. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:11 Harry Stebbings We're going to get into the scaling process around hiring those teams, but I am too intrigued, you know, when you say about kind of, you know, starting and structuring that growth team at Uber, what were some of the biggest challenges for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:15 Ed Baker You know, and that's what the CEO at Uber did with me when he brought me over from Facebook to Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Harry Stebbings I mean, he was at Uber and Facebook running gross teams. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:18 Ed Baker So when I think back to my onboarding experience at Uber, for example,
- ▶ 28:59 Harry Stebbings When you think back to your times with, say, Uber, what did you want to achieve in that first month and really understand with clarity? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:39 Ed Baker Another thing we did at Uber that was a needle mover, I shared the rider-to-driver thing, but on the rider side, we found that in India in particular, a lot of people don't have credit cards. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:29 Harry Stebbings In terms of that cultural value, as the kind of leader of the growth team, that is partly your role to instill, and I do want to touch on kind of the management aspect of being that growth leader, because, you know, as we said, starting… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:49 Harry Stebbings Which one company, other than Facebook or Uber, in terms of growth strategy have you been most impressed by recently?
20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Scott's also an early advisor and incredible investor in companies like Pinterest, Uber, Sweetgreen, Carter, Flexport, Airtable.
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings This guest has been there for me throughout my entire journey, and he's one of the wisest mentors and advisors I could have asked for, and so I'm thrilled to welcome David Frankel, co-founder and managing partner at Founder Collective, one…
- ▶ 38:34 David Frankel Kind of PayPal, Uber, so much behavior change.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings As an angel, Ali also made personal investments in, check this out, Dropbox, Uber, Airbnb,
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:43 unnamed speaker You know, I, I once, we were, we were in an Uber meeting talking about how, um, there was this, you know, like, I mean, you see articles about this driver hurt somebody, and so we dug into the data. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:06 Chris Sacca They're able to get loans and debt earlier in their life cycle than, you know, I think Uber was like a fifty billion dollar company before they were able to borrow money instead of the loot of financing.
- ▶ 57:45 Chris Sacca You know, I, well, when I wrote my checks into Uber, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:37 Chris Sacca We were in an early Uber board meeting once, and we needed a CFO. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:44 unnamed speaker Um, but Crystal's been, you know, she was there in the room to choose the, to, to hear the Uber pitch and decide we should do the deal. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 10:35 Mark Carney True in a non-lockdown world, but if you go watch, I forget your favorite football club, but I'm going to say you're going to go watch Arsenal, you'll probably jump through the screen, but if you're going to go watch Arsenal, are you going…
- ▶ 22:49 Mark Carney We don't want the Uberization, with all due respect to Uber, second to 2 times in the scene