Bird
company on 14 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 84 times in 36 episodes since 2018
20VC 16 
My First Million 15 
All-In 15 
TBPN 9 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 7 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 6 
A Product Market Fit Show 2 
BG2 Pod 1 
American Optimist 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Sourcery 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
Top Founders 1 
the a16z Podcast 1
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20VC 16All-In 15My First Million 15TBPN 9the Official SaaStr Podcast 7the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 6A Product Market Fit Show 2Capital Allocators 16 more shows
2026 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- The Collapse of Situational Awareness, Ferrari Luce Stays on Track for 2026 | Diet TBPN
- Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How to Turn $15K Into $1M in 2026 · Joe Lonsdale
- Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win
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2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- VC funding is not popping back. THIS is the new normal—here's how to adjust. | Peter Walker, Hea... · PMF Show
- Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
- Ep10. Pre-IPO Market, AI Hype Cycle, Is Software Dead? | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
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2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 18 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386)
- Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
- The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
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2021 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
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2020 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- 20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- 20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
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2019 17 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- 20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- "Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth" Harry Stebbings and Robert Vis
- 20VC: Why Lead Lime's Series D Funding Round, Why Engineers Are Underpaid & Why 74% of US Venture Firms Still Do Not Have Female GPs
- The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- 20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
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6 statements about Bird, every show
Coogan: Bird took five years to wind down due to zero leverage
“It took like an extra five years for bird to actually wind down. And it's because there's no leverage in the system. There's just a bunch of dollars that sit there as equity and those get burned down.”
Campbell: In 2018-2019, The Rideshare Guy's top content was about scooters
“For a while in 2018 and 19, our most popular content on both the blog and YouTube was actually scooter content when bird and lime and all these companies were exploding.”
Emil Michael: Pay-to-play recaps never work for tech startups
“These pay to play things never work. It didn't work at bird. It didn't work at Lime.”
Sacks: Bird hit $60M revenue in Q2 2021 near profitability
“In Q two, they just did sixty million in revenue in the last quarter. And I think it was a gross profit of something like 27%. And it was, had a loss of like twelve million. So they're very, very close to getting to profitability.”
Craft Ventures Backed Bird for Its Ability to Build Durable Scooters
“Certainly in the case of Bird, what we saw in the early days It was a explosively growing service, and the thing that we gave them credit for was the ability to develop a higher quality scooter, because the original scooters were kind of these retail scooters …”
Messerschmidt: #Angels syndicate has invested in over 100 startups
“And now, nearly five years later, we've invested in more than a hundred companies as a group, and those companies include Bird, Cameo, Gusto, Carta, Airtable, Lambda School, Carrot Fertility, Modern Fertility, Vector Space, and countless more.”