2012
other on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
4 statements about 2012, every show
Hoka grew from a $1.1M acquisition in 2012 to $1.4B revenue in 2023
“Hoka Shoes was bought for 1.1 million in 2012. Now it's doing 1.4 billion dollars in revenue in 2023.”
Smith: Instagram had 13 employees when acquired for $1 billion in 2012
“Instagram, for example, had 13 employees when it was sold for a billion dollars, and that was in 2012.”
The number of micro VC firms grew from 100 to over 1,000
“If you look back to 2012, I think by all accounts, there were probably a hundred micro VCs in the market. And you fast forward to today, and that number is over a thousand.”
Andreessen: 2012 was the tipping point for machine learning breakthroughs
“An entire battery of techniques that people have known about for a long time, plus some new techniques have, in, in, in machine learning and deep learning, have really started to work. 20 12 was kind of the tipping point for that, and now it's really building …”