Bebo

company on 9 shows · 8 statements across 6 episodes · said 57 times in 33 episodes since 2015

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Bebo received acquisition offers from Twitch, Facebook, and Discord
“I think at the end we ended up with three offers. We had a Facebook offer. We had the Twitch offer and we had a not papered, but like only because we turned it down early, but he was interested, the, a discord offer.”
Shaan Puri Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 37:54 How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
Discord's stock-based acquisition offer for Bebo would have been the most lucrative
“Discord , I think is worth about fifteen billion now. So it would have been by far the best deal.”
Shaan Puri Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 40:09 How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Puri: Bebo founders retained 70% in $850M sale by self-funding
“When he sold Bebo for, I think, eight hundred fifty million dollars, the husband and wife duo, they owned like 70% plus of the company because he had self-funded it using it, this, using this e-card website.”
Shaan Puri Jun 18, 2021 ▶ 14:00 Making Billions with Greeting Cards & Rich People (not) Paying Taxes | My First Million #192
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Bebo founder Michael Birch sold an early social network to Tickle
“Michael Birch, who was my investor in my previous company, and he was the original founder of Bebo, and he basically had sold, he created a social network, he sold it to Tickle, which was a quiz company, and Tickle was like a hundred million dollar company tha…”
Shaan Puri Apr 26, 2021 ▶ 44:08 Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Partly supported
Michael Birch's Bebo quiz acquired one million users in nine days
“And he created the best friends quiz, which was how well do you know me? And so I would create a quiz. I would answer a bunch of questions about me. Then I would send it to my friends and say, see, take this quiz, see how well you know me. And then the results…”
Shaan Puri Apr 26, 2021 ▶ 44:39 Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Puri: Bebo became the top app in Europe using Steven Bartlett's network
“We used him early on when he was, you know, we brought him on and he was part of my team. We used him and we became the number one app in the UK, number one app in Europe, because we used his like network to like talk about our app.”
Shaan Puri Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 19:43 MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped)
MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shaan Puri predicts his crypto holdings will surpass his startup exit
“If you project forward five years, I would almost certainly, my crypto holdings will be worth more than what I sold the company for, what I got out of the sale.”
Shaan Puri Mar 31, 2021 ▶ 39:14 MFM #165: How Jack Butcher is Selling his Art for $76m & How to Research Wealthy People
20VC Disclosure
Bebo sold to AOL in 2008 for nearly $1 billion
“We sold that in 2008 AOL for almost a billion dollars.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 5:03 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures

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