Overstock liquidated 19 startups funded by the VCs who rejected Patrick Byrne
Patrick Byrne · a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:03
Patrick Byrne, founder and CEO of Overstock.com, recounts capitalizing on the dot-com crash by liquidating failed VC-funded startups.
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“We went in and liquidated 19 companies that had been funded by the same Fellows who turned us down.”
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