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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:03 Ryan Petersen Like Yelp has 3600 salespeople. 3 times in the scene
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:19 Becca Lindquist You can say, I'm trying, you know, uh, I'm trying to find, uh, the, the 100 best Indian restaurants in London and find out who their owners are and what is their Yelp reviews and what are people actually saying in those Yelp reviews is the…
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:22 Jason Lemkin And then, um, and then there's, I, you know, I don't, I was just looking at Yelp this week. 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:40 Rory O'Driscoll When they were evil bastards for the last 15 years, grinding everyone down like Yelp.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 13:25 Richard Socher Going to Yelp for a restaurant review and then going to, if they really care about the weather because they are into flying sports or something, going to a specific weather app like Windy, then they go to a specific app like Uber Eats to…
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:40 Scott Gorlick When we went into the initial market, we got a Yelp list of all the drivers, um, in the city and sort of like called through and trying to get them to sign up with Uber and, you know, got our initial list of drivers that way and launched a…
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:35 Ashley Kelly I'm also very cognizant that not everyone learns the same way, but what I've found over, over the years, like, I think the old like Yelp model was they kept them with like a different team for a month or so, and then they would finally…
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings We look at Chime, we look at Yelp. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:35 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when we look at Yelp in all its wonderful varieties, and then when we look at Chime, which we haven't discussed, but you spent time at for kind of close to two years, according to trusty LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on The Single Question That Defines The Art of Early Stage Venture, Marketing Timing Risk, Why The Oversupply of Capital Is Good & His Biggest Lessons from 12 Years On The New Relic Board
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings As for Peter, he's led deals, sat on the board, or sits on the board of Elastic, New Relic, Digits, Docker, Optimizely, Yelp, and Zuora, to name a few.
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Five of his early stage investments, LinkedIn, MindBody, Pinterest, Shopify, and Yelp, have grown into billion dollar publicly traded companies.
- ▶ 4:49 Jeremy Levine That turned out to be a great business, and I got to know Mariam years later on the board of Yelp, but it was literally like a raining, whatever it was, a Tuesday afternoon or something, and I had a couple hours before my flight, and I was… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:15 Jeremy Levine I saw Jeremy Stoppeman do it at Yelp, and I saw Toby Lutke do it at Shopify.
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- ▶ 23:42 Sarah Tavel And so what I mean by that is the cliche is that everything on Yelp is three and a half to four stars.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 19:18 Andrew Wilkinson So you could see this with Google versus Yelp. 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Solve The Chicken and Egg Problem in Marketplaces? How Important Is Differentiated Supply? How To Prevent Leakage? How to Create Marketplace Defensibility and more with Alyssa Ravasio, Founder & CEO @ Hipcamp
- ▶ 8:16 Alyssa Ravasio You can kind of think of it as a Yelp for campgrounds, and I spent a long time trying to build a business that really was focused specifically on the public land part of the outdoor industry, and I learned a couple important things.
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining Redpoint, Alex was in the TMT Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, where he worked with Intuit, Yelp, Sandisk, among others.
- ▶ 4:23 Alex Clayton My first day on the job, I was actually staffed on the Yelp IPO, and that became a big part of my life for the next 12 months. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 23:34 Ooshma Garg I was researching angel investors for our company, and at the time, Keith was at Square, and he had been involved in Yelp, and he had been angel investing in a number of other consumer companies, especially in peer-to-peer and e-commerce.
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm thrilled to welcome back Sarah Tavill, general partner at Benchmark, one of the world's leading VC funds, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp,
20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings In addition, Mariam also sits on the boards of Yelp and Every Mother Counts, and I have to say a huge thank you to Julia Hartz at Eventbrite,
- ▶ 23:58 Harry Stebbings What about the biggest learning from being on the Yelp board? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Joining us in the hot seat, we have Chad Richard, Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development at Yelp, where he leads acquisition and investment activity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, does that product-driven M&A strategy differ widely from alternative strategies, maybe like the one that you've got at Yelp, or is it not always about bringing on great founders and great teams, or are there other methods such…
- ▶ 7:14 Harry Stebbings So starting point being looking for potential M&A with Yelp, and building out the pipeline.
- ▶ 9:08 Chad Richard For us, we traditionally do not make investments. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:54 Chad Richard We integrated it into the Yelp app, and of course, we have a large audience of people who are looking for restaurants.
- ▶ 12:54 Chad Richard Yeah, I think it's a pretty standard process in that what we really do is I like to work with my, my peers who run product here at Yelp.
- ▶ 17:31 Harry Stebbings How does it vary in terms of M&A between public companies, maybe your Yelps of the world, versus your private companies with, with now very big balance sheets being your Airbnbs and Ubers of the world?
- ▶ 20:14 Chad Richard I think the, the reason I believe in it is similar to why I like running both partnerships and M&A here at Yelp, is I think they should be one and the same, hopefully.
- ▶ 24:06 Harry Stebbings Hardest element in your day-to-day role at Yelp?
- ▶ 25:05 Harry Stebbings Incredible to hear the internal process at Yelp.
20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- ▶ 15:10 Will Porteous Many generations of the iPhone served on hundreds of millions of devices, processed billions of location lookups a day, and that was the first generation of this capability, and that's what's given us the Yelps and the Force
20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings All ads get a personal message from me, but we're back today to this feature week with one of the world's leading venture funds, Bessemer Venture Partners, the team that backed the likes of Pinterest, Yelp, LinkedIn, and Skype, just to…
20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings But to the show today, and it's been a long time since we had a themed week on the show, so today I'm thrilled to change that with our feature of the globally renowned Bessemer Venture Partners, with a portfolio including the likes of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 Harry Stebbings Um, but you mentioned some of the successes that you've had in the 20 companies that you've worked with very closely, uh, and particularly some in the mainstream consumer space with the likes of Yelp, LinkedIn, Pinterest,
- ▶ 15:32 Jeremy Levine And so, in the early days, the existing platforms that companies like Yelp or TripAdvisor built their businesses on were Google and search engines through search engine optimization and showing up in the index of another already really… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:43 Jeremy Levine And for me, that, that example was Yelp in 2005, even though, uh, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russ Simmons were well-known characters in Silicon Valley.
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
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, eBay, WeWork, Yelp, and many more revolutionary companies of the last decade.
20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings As a board member, Keith guided Yelp and Zoom from inception to successful IPOs,
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 3:53 Leo Polovets So, you know, if you, if you have like the Yelp app open
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 5:31 Mamoon Hamid Uh, and actually one of my very close friends was just starting Yelp at the time. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 15:36 Sean Flynn That's what allowed companies like Yelp.
20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 16:25 Annie Kadavy But, you know, I, I oftentimes joke that if you spend time on some of these larger marketplace websites, if you look at Yelp or if you look at eBay, there is no product designer in the world that's going to tell you that they are the most…
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 6:39 Sarah Tavel Um, and, you know, we, you know, had a lot of investments also on the, like, kind of user-generated content side, um, companies like Yelp and LinkedIn.