Webvan, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Webvan comes up
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:27 Peter Fenton Webvan was a really good failure.
- ▶ 1:20:31 David Rosenthal Webvan was awesome.
- ▶ 1:21:13 Eric Vishria I think some of those are really, like, that's a good, Webvan is a good venture investment.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:28 David Rosenthal So I couldn't a hundred percent prove this, but I believe Dave's first deal is Webvan.
- ▶ 1:00:36 David Rosenthal I don't know if he did others before, but if Webvan wasn't his first, it was certainly among the first, like right after he arrived.
- ▶ 1:02:10 David Rosenthal Dunleavy reached into a stack of papers and pulled out a business plan called Oasis.
- ▶ 1:02:25 David Rosenthal And Oasis, of course, is Webvan.
- ▶ 1:02:28 David Rosenthal Which I remember Webban as a creator, a cautionary tale of what could go wrong in the dot-com excesses.
- ▶ 1:03:07 Ben Gilbert So what was Webvan?
- ▶ 1:03:16 David Rosenthal Have we talked about Webvan on every season episode so far in season 11, I think?
- ▶ 1:03:23 Ben Gilbert The theme of season 11 is web van.
- ▶ 1:03:55 David Rosenthal He was just a couple decades too early, and so that's what WebVan was.
- ▶ 1:04:07 Ben Gilbert And importantly, now, WebVan did have the sort of last mile component as the initial founding
- ▶ 1:04:28 Ben Gilbert And Webfan had that from the start, and it was equally ambitious.
- ▶ 1:05:50 Ben Gilbert Everyone goes, Webvan, ball of flames, terrible venture investment, lit more money on fire than I can ever remember, emblematic of dot-com insanity and incorrectness of everybody lost their mind.
- ▶ 1:06:26 David Rosenthal And then Webvan does do a late stage one or two.
- ▶ 1:06:43 David Rosenthal And then web van goes public.
- ▶ 1:06:50 David Rosenthal So, you know, at the high point for this web van bet that Benchmark and Sequoia each put three and a half million into.
- ▶ 1:07:29 David Rosenthal I stand up and applaud for a web ban.
- ▶ 1:09:13 Ben Gilbert I think he even visited the web van facility.
- ▶ 3:06:29 David Rosenthal We were talking about Webvan.
- ▶ 3:06:31 David Rosenthal You know, Webvan gets liquid, goes public, trades on the public markets up to eight billion dollars.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:52:14 Ben Gilbert To start Webvan.
- ▶ 1:52:15 David Rosenthal To start Webvan.
- ▶ 1:53:19 David Rosenthal Do you know, just like we talked about last episode about the whole crazy, you know, Borders, Kmart, Webvan, Kiva came out of Webvan, which of course Amazon acquired and is.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:53:36 David Rosenthal Borders Books started Web Van during the tech bubble, and I always wondered, I was like, why on earth did Louie leave Borders that he started and was founder of, and then go start this Web Van thing?