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20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 5:39 Geoff Ralston His company via web was purchased in order to create Yahoo stores.
- ▶ 7:26 Harry Stebbings So I guess my question to you is, you're at Yahoo for the boom and the bust of the dot com, and then saw it again in 2008.
- ▶ 30:54 Geoff Ralston Google did this amazing deal with Yahoo right in the very beginning. 2 times in the scene
20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Jeff also enjoyed prior roles with the likes of Symantec, Adobe, SAP, and Yahoo.
- ▶ 3:37 Jeff Russakow SIP, Adobe, Semantic, Yahoo, and only really about eight, nine years ago, started getting into growth.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 3:45 Dennis Mortensen The very short story in my very short life, given I'm only 46, is one for where I did a few ventures back home in Denmark, then moved to England for a while, then moved to Budapest for a while, where we spent four years doing a analytics… 2 times in the scene
20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Previously, Maynard was chairman of the board of Yahoo, he was the CEO of LiveOps, and COO of eBay.
- ▶ 12:31 Maynard Webb It's great if you have, so board members are very independent, and I've been the chair, I was the chairman of Yahoo, right, and we had lots of different constituencies on the board, and they don't work for the chair, you know, the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:39 Maynard Webb Jeff Bonfort, who's a great executive at Yahoo, helps us at our offsites always talk about this, where he used to hate going to board meetings and he found a way to put them to work.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 14:20 Fritz Lanman We had quarterbacks with our corp dev counterparts, a bunch of the big pieces of the Yahoo deal that we tried to try to get done and ultimately got a variation done, and Facebook had come around, come to our desks, and we were made aware… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 5:22 Glenn Solomon And you saw companies created like Yahoo and Google and Facebook more recently.
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings West Coast's leading angel investors with a portfolio including the likes of Zoom, Tango.me, Tomfoolery, acquired by Yahoo, and Arista Networks, which obviously IPO'd, where he also sits on the board.
- ▶ 6:49 Dan Scheinman So, let's say five or six years ago, you had healthy competition to buy tech and talent, particularly with Facebook, Google, even Yahoo at that time when Marissa came there.
20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Now, Jerry is one of New York's leading angel investors, with a portfolio including the likes of The Trade Desk, which IPO'd in 2016, Datadog, and Flurry, which was acquired by Yahoo, just to name a few.
20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- ▶ 3:46 James Loftus And when she went to Yahoo to be the CEO, I had an opportunity to move over to the corporate development side of Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Harry Stebbings Where would you stand on the thesis that companies are bought and not sold, having sat on both sides of the table, both with Andreessen and with Yahoo, Google, and now Square?
- ▶ 19:35 James Loftus This is true for Square, but it's true at Yahoo, and it's true at Google, too. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- ▶ 5:03 Andy Pflaum Satish, Roland, and Ross, and Zimbra was a leading open source collaboration suite for enterprise customers, and that was also a successful company, and through some interesting M&A activities, it took me through a couple years, first at…
- ▶ 6:22 Harry Stebbings You also experienced it in the form of kind of incumbents like VMware and Yahoo, and now founding companies.
20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before LinkedIn, Emily enjoyed roles such as Director of Digital Business Strategy and Operations at Warner Brothers, International Strategy and Ops at MySpace, and CorpDev Strategy at Yahoo.
- ▶ 3:11 Emilie Choi And I reached out to Yahoo about working in corp dev and strategy, and I got the role. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- ▶ 7:05 James Currier An example would be, I mean, certainly in naming, you watch a company like Yahoo, uh, you know, 20 years ago, they had such an incredible name that was different from every other company's name, and so the press wanted to talk about them… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 8:01 Paul Buchheit And a lot of this actually goes back to my experience with Gmail, because, you know, that started off, you know, Hotmail and Yahoo were just like huge.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 15:30 Jason Calacanis So even AOL and Yahoo, which went through decades of mismanagement each, they are still alive and they still exist and they still have a combined billion users, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 18:47 Roseanne Wincek I mean, if you think about mobile, you think about the app store, it's really this, you know, wall guard enclosed ecosystem, and the app store itself is basically Yahoo, right?
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
- ▶ 11:31 Harry Stebbings Would you agree with me in asserting that their strengths lie where their predecessors may not have done in the M&A environment where Facebook acquired, you know, your Instagrams and WhatsApps and Googles can buy anything from DeepMind to…
20VC: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 30:24 Peter Fenton Spiegel did at Snapchat, and this is well documented, but I don't want to talk out of school, was one of those great heroic acts, and I think Twitter did the same thing when Google approached them early in their life, Facebook with Yahoo,…
20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- ▶ 12:41 Pejman Nozad On adjacent street, Yahoo started.
20VC: Why You Should Not Invest From Patterns, Why No Good Business Was Built As An Analogy Of Another & Why The Rise Of The 'Celebrity Investor' Is Concerning with Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ
- ▶ 8:54 Emily Melton One of those was GoTo, which ended up was Overture, which was acquired by Yahoo, which was, at the time, viewed as an amazing success.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 24:18 Ryan Smith I mean, I used to think I'm never getting off of Yahoo and kind of look at the change there that that's kind of how the world works.
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 15:19 Rory O'Driscoll There were four search IPOs in 1996, Yahoo, Infoseek, Lycos, and one other whose name escapes me. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings And before Square Enix, Clinton practiced law, representing clients including Microsoft, Sony, and Yahoo.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 14:00 Mamoon Hamid And our investment team was mostly folks who've built some amazing products at companies like Facebook and server monkey and optimizely and Yahoo and Dropbox and,
20VC: Redpoint's Tom Tunguz on Winning with Data: How To Gain A Competitive Advantage & Dominate Markets with Data and 5 Steps To Create A Data Driven Company
- ▶ 3:51 Tomasz Tunguz Early 2005, we were neck and neck with Yahoo, which was the big competitor trying to run ads on other people's websites. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 20:16 Dave McClure If you compare maybe a couple of companies like, you know, Microsoft or Yahoo or Google, those three probably all discovered their business models relatively early and then really had dominating performances.
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And before joining Shasta, Sean worked at Yahoo, where he focused on growing the company's communication and messaging products, such as Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Flickr.
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And before joining Shasta, Sean worked at Yahoo, where he focused on growing the company's communication and messaging products, such as Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Flickr.
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And before joining Shasta, Sean worked at Yahoo, where he focused on growing the company's communication and messaging products, such as Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Flickr.
- ▶ 3:00 Sean Flynn And that's what led me ultimately to, to join Yahoo. 9 times in the scene
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Who's a partner at USV, and prior to USV, Albert was the president of Delicious through the company's sale to Yahoo, and an angel investor at Etsy and Tumblr.
- ▶ 4:22 Albert Wenger And then pretty quickly becoming essentially the president of Delicious, and that was a nine-month glorious ride until Yahoo acquired the company, and I didn't have to go long.
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 2:53 Dennis Mortensen Yahoo, and one part of the set of terms and conditions that comes with that acquisition was that I moved to New York, which I actually pissed very hard against because I wanted to move to the valley and do my next thing out of there, all… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- ▶ 12:00 Matt Turck And, uh, when, when you look at the history of big data, a lot of the tools were created by, uh, you know, the, the Googles and the Yahoo's and LinkedIn and Facebook.
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Now, I do have a hard time formulating an intro for Heaton, as he seemingly has many hats, both as a phenomenal operator, being the co-founder of Kissmetrics and Crazy Egg, and he's also a superb angel investor, having invested in more…
20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
- ▶ 3:12 Eric Hippeau When SoftBank bought Ziv Davis, uh, we at Ziv Davis were about to make an investment in Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:41 Eric Hippeau And, uh, and we started Yahoo Japan, and then I joined the board of Yahoo and stayed on for 15 years.
- ▶ 23:13 Harry Stebbings Yahoo, is it game over? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:27 Eric Hippeau Uh, namely, it's taken Alibaba, it's taken Yahoo Japan, and its own, um, its own own and operated website, uh, which is still very, very large in decline, no, no question, but still, uh, draws, you know, I don't know, six hundred million…
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Having started off his career with Microsoft, he then made the leap into venture with the world-renowned Axel Partners, where he was a board observer with the likes of Playfish, which were acquired by Electronic Arts, and he made seed…
20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And prior to 500, Marvin is a 10 and a half year veteran of Yahoo, having held roles in various departments from sales to business development, ad operations, marketing, and presently serves on the board of several internet advertising and…
- ▶ 2:38 Marvin Liao For work, and then ended up at Yahoo, um, in 2001, sort of in the, sort of the downturn. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings And, and your 500 Startups page describes you as the recovering Yahoo exec. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:37 Harry Stebbings And coming from 10 years at Yahoo!, you could have had your pick of VCs to join, really, and, and so what, what is it about 500 that attracted you, and why do you believe that the opportunity really lies in this very early stage of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Harry Stebbings And then the future for Yahoo. 5 times in the scene
20 VC 069: Jeff Clavier, King of Seed Funding @ SoftTech VC on Brad Feld, Fitbit and Standout Startups
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings Facebook, Yahoo, and AOL.
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
- ▶ 10:08 Roxanne Varza Uh, we had companies like Zobni acquired by Yahoo, so we have, you know, solid companies going through the program, but it's a distance program, and I think you're starting to see so many, first of all, so many more startups than we did…
20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate
- ▶ 2:17 Alan Jones A small internet search startup that nobody had ever heard of. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 26:52 Keith Teare If you think of DNS as the piece of technology that when you type in yahoo.com in your browser, the webpage appears.
20 VC 022: Letting go of the life we planned and the Power of the Female Narrative with Matthew McCall
- ▶ 10:28 Matthew McCall The more likely they're going to say, hey, Matt, I just came across a deal I thought you might find interesting, or I'd love to make that introduction to Yahoo for you.
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