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every year anyone David George 31Grant LaFontaine 30Zach Cohen 4Connie Chan 4Anne Lee Skates 3Deb Liu 1Antonio García Martínez 1
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How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 0:41 Grant LaFontaine That's probably the true origin stories of whatnot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40 David George Like, tell me about, like, you kind of, um, having that experience and making it a formative piece of, you know, starting what not eventually. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:26 David George So I gotta ask, was WhatNot one of the domains that you had bought? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Grant LaFontaine Um, and luckily, you know, the, I think it's, I guess, 36 hours to get ahold of the guy, but, you know, 36 hours later, we were able to, to get Whatnot, and, uh, we were almost Whynot for a period of time, which also would have been okay. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:01 David George I am struck by, obviously, we're longtime investors with you, and so, you know, this is, this is not new news to us, but it is striking when I describe it to other people how big the market for this is and how big whatnot actually is. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:55 Grant LaFontaine Yeah, I mean, I think the, one of the most fun things about Whatnot is it's, it's fundamentally empowering small business, and if you look at a lot of what's happened, again, in e-commerce over the past 20 or 30 years, is it got so… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:39 Grant LaFontaine Yeah, I mean, I guess if you look at what not today, we're selling things in a hundred plus categories. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:32 Grant LaFontaine Um, and, uh, we have a, invest a lot in it, so I think, um, trust and safety in particular on whatnot is about 40% of employees. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:51 Grant LaFontaine Because the core, the core of whatnot is you visit a shop, you know the shop owner, and then you know the people who frequent that shop. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:29 David George Like, we've talked about, you know, the platform today, the origin story, supply side, demand side, WhatNot is, 9 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 32:26 Antonio García Martínez I mean, there's, there's TikTok, there's an app called Whatnot.
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 9:00 Zach Cohen Yeah, I think what's really interesting, uh, is happening in shopping, uh, specifically what not. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:24 Connie Chan And so I think video is just going to make its way into all marketplaces, whether it's the actual selling experience, like something like a whatnot.
- ▶ 42:08 Connie Chan Or you have just a much better fun experience, and that's what not.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 3:38 Connie Chan And it is something that I'd say we haven't really explored out in the West yet outside of these other platforms like whatnot that does live shopping for collectibles and other categories. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:51 Anne Lee Skates You can now actually, uh, be have a selection set of a hundred million people globally who are true fans of anime and, you know, more concretely like taking what not, which is one of our portfolio companies, that's a live shopping 3 times in the scene