WeWork, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WeWork comes up
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
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings So starting this one a little bit differently today, because intros are hard, and they're hard to make fun and different every time, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you like from intros and what you don't like from an intro, so… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings He co-founded WeWork Labs in 2011 and ran WeWork X, M&A, startup investments, business, and digital product development, as well as inside sales during his five-year tenure at the company.
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings He co-founded WeWork Labs in 2011 and ran WeWork X, M&A, startup investments, business, and digital product development, as well as inside sales during his five-year tenure at the company.
- ▶ 2:03 Harry Stebbings But, but talk to me a little now, starting, on the founding story of WeWork, and, and how that transitioned now into your new role in venture. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Jesse Middleton And so ultimately, you know, got together with them about five and a half, a little over five and a half years ago to start what we called WeWork Labs, which was our take on what very early stage companies needed outside of a three month…
- ▶ 4:14 Harry Stebbings That's such a good segue into, into the question that I'm about to ask in terms of the WeWork experience, and what was the biggest takeaway that you've taken with you now to your time as an investor with Flybridge? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:08 Harry Stebbings And you said earlier about WeWork's, uh, insane vision, uh, from the start.
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 15:28 Jesse Middleton To run a marketing campaign at WeWork, let's say, and by tomorrow, we could see results.
- ▶ 17:52 Harry Stebbings Uh, most problems tend to happen, and, and as you said, you have kind of six roles in the operations with WeWork just alone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 Jesse Middleton But the second thing may be, oh, well, this gives me a great opportunity to kind of think about how I make this better for the future, and I think that, you know, we had many stories in the earliest days of WeWork where we, we didn't have… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:02 Jesse Middleton We work labs location, which was on Varick street.
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
- ▶ 30:53 Harry Stebbings As always, we so appreciate your support, and cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's show with Jesse Middleton, founder at WeWork, and newly announced general partner at Flybridge.
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 25:32 Sam Lessin So, you know, there's, we live is another company that's working on this from the, we work guys.