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Waze

4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 2, 2016 by Jim Scheinman · said 11 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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brought up most by Dave Sobota (8), Darian Shirazi (2), Eric Glyman (1)

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Everything said about Waze, oldest first

Mar 2, 2016
Disclosure
Jim Scheinman passed on Waze because Kleiner Perkins drove the valuation too high
“In particular, one that I got there just a little bit too late was Waze. I love Waze. And you know, Kleiner put a bunch of money and it was too expensive for me at that point”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 21:01 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Apr 6, 2018 negative
Disclosure
Shirazi Passed on Early-Stage Investment Opportunities in Box and Waze
“I remember making a bad decision not to advise or invest in box or join box because I just thought that the business was so young and so early, and it was basically when it was just three people. And I also made a mistake on Waze, too. And, you know, I met the…”
Darian Shirazi Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 9:21 20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
Apr 15, 2019 bullish
Assertion Supported
Google paid $1.1 billion for pre-revenue Waze and succeeded
“For example, if you look at a ways where we spent 1.1 billion dollars to buy them, that's been a tremendously successful deal for us. But at the time they had almost no revenue.”
Dave Sobota Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 7:52 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
Apr 15, 2019
Assertion Supported
Waze signed an LOI with another acquirer before Google bought them
“Waze had actually signed a letter of intent with another acquirer when we got involved. One of our main competitors was a Waze stockholder and wasn't too keen on us buying them.”
Dave Sobota Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 22:24 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
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