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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Webvan comes up
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:20 Gokul Rajaram Because he lost three hundred and seventy million on web van less than a decade ago.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:02 Alex Rampell Like, you know, went out to go meet the founders of Webband.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:07 Sridhar Ramaswamy Or is this the dumber web van stuff that just, like, burnt money in the early 2000 trying to get you groceries and we had to wait 15 years for Instacart to then show up?
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:19 Bret Taylor And I think people associate mentally and emotionally, the.com bubble is associated with web van and pets.com.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:35 Jeff Jordan So I go, Mike, you know, talk to me, you know, web van was a pretty sustained failure. 3 times in the scene
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:16 Albert Wenger I think it'll be a blip, um, in the long term, and it'll be a blip, you know, much like, you know, web van imploding, or a flooz.com, or whatever, you know, pick your favorite .com, you know, thing that imploded.
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:33 Jeff Jordan So I go, Mike, you know, talk to me, you know, what band was a pretty sustained failure. 3 times in the scene
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:02 Rafael Ilishayev You know, two decades ago, Webvan and Cosmo, uh, you know, couldn't make it.
20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- ▶ 14:18 Ooshma Garg An analogy would be like if you were to judge Instacart a thousand percent on web fan, and some VCs do, but I find that it's important to specialize at least in some areas so that you can look under the hood because people eat in many…
20VC: How Every VC Firm Is A Marketplace, Why A Large Amount of Promise in AI Today Is Impossible & Entrepreneurs 3 Main Pain Points of Fundraising with Alex Mittal, Founder & CEO @ Funders Club
- ▶ 8:28 Alex Mittal And this was fresh off the heels of Webvan, which was, like, a colossal failure. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 2:26 Samir Kaji It was Pets.com and Webman and some of the others.