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Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:07 Zachary Bookman Your business is about finding the next Coinbase, or the next Uber, maybe the next Pinterest.
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:37 George Arison And there is, or they manage in the way that kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd hear about Uber and like the culture that Uber had in 2016, 1718, and that is not attractive to people either. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:37 George Arison I want people to open up Grindr, open up Uber, 3 times in the scene
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:49 Klaus Hommels So at, look at my famous quote always is when Uber started in, um, in San Francisco, people said, but the taxi market is only two hundred fifty million, and today Uber's revenue in San Francisco is six hundred million. 2 times in the scene
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:16 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is we have Dropbox and Uber and Facebook and Pinterest.
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:01 unnamed speaker Uh, we felt that the, you know, what Uber was, uh, establishing as the, as the market pricing wouldn't really warrant that take rate.
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:55 Harry Stebbings Was Uber known at the time? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:00 Harry Stebbings When you look at your, your Ubers or your, you name it, they are so capital inefficient and the cost it is to manage and run them is extraordinary.
- ▶ 1:07:30 Harry Stebbings It was insane when there was, I mean, there was Dot, there was Uber, there was you, I was like, oh my God.
- ▶ 1:15:33 Harry Stebbings Um, what is Uber better than you at today, and what are they worse than you at today? 2 times in the scene
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:43 Vlad Tenev There, there's Uber, there's Lyft.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:55 AJ Tennant Now, I had relationships with Airbnb and Uber, and networked in, in a warm intro way, and, um, you know, funny, funny story, like the, the head of procurement at Uber, who I was like, calling, she's like, AJ, we're not a customer of Glean. 2 times in the scene
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:40 Mamoon Hamid Yeah, I mean, I think one could have said that about, like, you would have, maybe you would have missed the seat at Uber, because what, probably not so great economics early on, right?
- ▶ 58:23 Harry Stebbings Like your DoorDash to the world, like your Uber. 2 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:07 David Frankel I remember an Uber, by the way, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:03 David Frankel That's way before we got to Uber, Trade Desk, Coupang, and we, we haven't given DPI, by the way, in, at all, in companies like SeatGeek, Airtable.
- ▶ 29:54 David Frankel Uh, grateful to have been in Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Coupang, we mentioned Uber, we mentioned the Trade Desk. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:00 David Frankel Talking about Uber, going like, how did you know? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:16 David Frankel Uber, I regret every single share I sold.
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:13 Maria Angelidou Like, I was reading about the deal that they made with, between Uber and Instacart, and I think that's brilliant, like, both of them, right?
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:19 Bret Taylor Imagine that was a full featured computer and you could, uh, order an Uber.
- ▶ 51:32 Harry Stebbings If I can just talk to myself, which would look kind of weird, but normal because I do often as the venture ambassador with too much free time, clearly, uh, like, you know, I could ask myself, Hey, like get an Uber. 2 times in the scene
Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:48 Donald Tang All the allocation, if you think about Uber command center, uh, it's,
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:21 Harry Stebbings But even now, actually, you could argue that say like in an Uber lift case, which is exactly what I was thinking, the insight I think would be that broad is better than narrow in terms of market expansion and being everywhere is more…
- ▶ 17:00 Eric Vishria And so, like, and you just, you mentioned Uber, like, Uber's a good example of this, where it's like, if you could actually, and this was goes back to the whole, like, that professor, um, and the, like, taxi cab analysis that was done,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:58 Eric Vishria You know, in that time timeline, that's when Snapchat, Uber, Twitter, maybe 2009 to Instagram. 2 times in the scene
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:26 Phil Carter So Uber, Airbnb, companies that are like ubiquitous at this point in the, the American tech mindset.
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:18 Mike Hudack Uh, I'm not sure that, you know, Deliveroo, or I assume, you know, Uber is like this, or, or DoorDash, you know.
- ▶ 28:30 Mike Hudack It turned out to be really easy, because when I got there, again, this is a difficult, you know, in this kind of form, I need to be careful about the way that I tell these stories, but, you know, it was, um, Uber, Uber Eats was in London,…
- ▶ 28:30 Mike Hudack It turned out to be really easy, because when I got there, again, this is a difficult, you know, in this kind of form, I need to be careful about the way that I tell these stories, but, you know, it was, um, Uber, Uber Eats was in London,…
- ▶ 39:24 Harry Stebbings Is there anything that you learned from, you, you very rightly did, I think described as like a knife fight in terms of, you know, Uber Eats versus delivery.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Scott Gorlick When I got back to Atlanta to launch Uber, it was really about building the operation from scratch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06 Harry Stebbings Uh, tell me, how did you make your way into the world of growth, join Uber, I believe as employee number 99? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:21 Scott Gorlick Um, but when I got back to Atlanta to launch Uber, it was really about building the operation from scratch. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:37 Scott Gorlick So if you were riding in a car with somebody and they hadn't used Uber yet, by the time you got out of the car, you would have referred them and you each would have gotten like 10 dollars off your next ride. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:04 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of those kind of margin improvements, how did you see margins and economics change as the company progressed in new cities? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:37 Harry Stebbings I could take one long trip, and it doesn't mean that I really love Uber, but if I do velocity of trips, 10 trips, it means that I do. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 Scott Gorlick So when I started at Uber, we were only black cars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 Scott Gorlick So, as you probably know from Uber, that was a very abrupt, uh, sort of, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Scott Gorlick So at Uber, we saw almost every city as its own startup, and that was an incredibly freeing thing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Scott Gorlick One of the things that we probably messed up, and, you know, the team has gotten a lot better about this, is, like, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:18 Scott Gorlick We were doing Uber elevate.
- ▶ 28:36 Harry Stebbings What did Uber get most wrong, do you think? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:19 Scott Gorlick In, when we launched Eats, it was growing really fast, but if you look at DoorDash versus Eats in the US, the market share is pretty pronounced. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:27 Harry Stebbings What's the hardest part of the Uber business today? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 Harry Stebbings Why did Uber Eats lose to DoorDash?
- ▶ 39:32 Scott Gorlick And, uh, you know, I think one of the things they've done recently that's really interesting is they're offering a free pro membership, um, to anybody with a LinkedIn premium account or an Uber one membership.
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:26 Harry Stebbings People often discredit Uber for X, Airbnb.
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:38 Shaun Maguire Whenever I'm in an Uber, I don't ever want to mention Judaism or Israel, and, like, these are very simple things, but, I mean, first of all, there has been a lot more Jewish hate crimes in the West, in the, since October seventh, than…
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:36 Harry Stebbings Like, I get Ubers.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:45 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Bill and Uber there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 Delian Asparouhov Whether it's in the like, you know, Uber case of we need liquidity, or one of the most, you know, worst cases that I've seen is when it's your first sort of like, quote unquote, big deal, big investments.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:57 Kevin Hartz Jason Calcanis loves to talk about his investment in Uber. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:22 Harry Stebbings Because if it's Uber, I was a yes.
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:56 Harry Stebbings Is this a Uber and Lyft market?
Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:27 Ara Mahdessian He's like, I'm sending you an Uber. 2 times in the scene
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:33 Val Scholz For example, we went to, um, all the big tech companies like Google, Uber, uh, in our lunch break to hand out cards in their cafeteria.
- ▶ 17:44 Val Scholz So essentially, I think Uber did it quite well, where they offered money, or actually like PayPal in the early days, um, you offer someone money to sign up, and essentially, like, as long as they bring in more money, like, the whole loop…
- ▶ 29:43 Val Scholz Okay, Uber has really excellent operations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:03 Val Scholz Um, I actually think that if you look at Uber, Airbnb, Meta, they don't use events, or at least not in the early days.
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:44 Matt Lerner I mean, 2009 mobile apps, you know, and Airbnb, and Uber, and Stripe, and like so many amazing companies were getting born, so that was a huge one, and then yeah, certainly dot com, one dot o, wherever like people were first building these…
Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:23 Aaron Levie And then if it really turns into a thing of like, Hey, book me this flight or call this Uber for me or whatever, that's just an infinite amount of, of new types of transactions that they can facilitate that they are not currently…
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:50 Nikesh Arora You look at what Uber did, like Uber had to get scale because you had to build a service.
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:42 Vickie Peng And you have something like Uber come along and say, actually, there's a completely different source of supply that you have not thought of for getting you from point, point A to point B.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:19 Kevin Ryan So in, in things like Uber, being five times bigger than Lyft ultimately does make the difference. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 Kevin Ryan Did the guys from, you know, Uber come from the taxi industry?
- ▶ 21:01 Kevin Ryan And Uber made sense.
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:23 Harry Stebbings Before we dive into, you know, the, the Uber acquisition, I spoke to Nabil before the show, and I'm looking at my notes now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 Harry Stebbings How did the Uber acquisition play out? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Bastian Lehmann Uh, more what they want to and what they can do with Uber Eats. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:51 Bastian Lehmann Uber obviously had to file an S-IV at the time that they purchased Postmates, and you can look it up.
- ▶ 20:08 Bastian Lehmann And obviously we benefited from the Uber share price. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:48 Bastian Lehmann Um, Ben, and I had this feeling like, man, he's not really that involved in all of these things, but it, boy, I, I think it's just a great way of how he leads the company and, and, and he, he, he is involved, but not to the extent that I… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:29 Bastian Lehmann In charge at Uber, and I don't run the company, and however, however, uh, um, Dara wants to run the company, he probably will do what's best for the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Harry Stebbings You could stay at Uber.
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:20 Mario Schlosser I think it's related to, you know, would Uber ever make money because, well, they're just subsidizing these rides, and that's the other thing we had to work through.
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:40 Harry Stebbings I could have a random investment in Uber from a friend who I've worked with before, crap process, crap portfolio, my output will be great.
Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:22 Harry Stebbings So if you were at Sandgrid, just, is it like, um, you're a PM at Uber, and
20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors
- ▶ 22:59 David Tisch If anybody owned one percent of Facebook, one percent of Uber, .1% of Coinbase, your math works.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:14 Erik Allebest So if he misses school, he's gotta Uber to school.
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:05 David Tisch Get sent out on AngelList, you click make intro, it's Uber.
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:54 Harry Stebbings Mostly when you're on the loo, when you, sorry, uh, when you're on public transport in the UK, like we have trains, buses, you know, but whatever that is, or in Ubers, it's, I would say it's not like dating apps, you're competing against…
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:02 Harry Stebbings And sometimes attribution is not even reliable in the way that like the person who sold Uber's, uh, the Uber account at Twilio, it was like an entry level cell.
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:42 Harry Stebbings Uh, the most beautiful thing in the world is when you see TAMs expanding, you know, Uber moving from chauffeur driven cars to the car for everyone is a beautiful and very clear example of just an expansion of TAM.