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Stebbings: Bending Spoons filing US IPO at $20B valuation
“Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer, AOL, Eventbrite, a very massively executed roll-up strategy, a 1,000,000,003 in revenue, and they're filing to go public at twenty billion dollars on in the US from Italy.”
Ramaswamy: Google Succeeded Early Because AOL and Yahoo Neglected Search
“Yahoo and AOL. Early on. Those were the entry points. AOL didn't know how to do a search. Yahoo didn't think search was important.”
AOL's Patch reached 1,500 employees without generating material revenue
“When I was at Patch in AOL, it wasn't quite working. Patch hadn't figured out a business model, yet it had scaled the company. So Patch was 1500 people when I was there and unfortunately, we had not been generating material revenue yet, and we were trying to f…”