Farfetch
company on 6 shows · 10 statements across 3 episodes · said 58 times in 22 episodes since 2015
20VC 49 
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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
In Depth 1 
Another Podcast 1 
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2021 24 mentions in 2 episodes 12 per episode
- 20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
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2018 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
- 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
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2017 16 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Overcoming The Engineer Boys Club, Disrupting The "Pink Aisle" & Why VCs Are Missing A Trick Not Investing In The CPG Space with Debbie Sterling, Founder & CEO @ Goldieblox
- 20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- 20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
- 20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- 20VC: Why VCs Fundamentally Assess Founders The Wrong Way, Why VC Needs To Innovate On The Scouting Model & Why SAFE's and Convertible Notes Are The Future Of Investing with Elizabeth Yin, Founder & General Partner @ Hustle Fund
- 20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- 20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
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2016 5 mentions in 1 episode
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10 statements about Farfetch, every show
Farfetch CTO Cipriano has worked with founder José Neves for 27 years
“Then I started my company with my current CTO, actually, Cipriano, who's been working with me for 27 years.”
Farfetch's zero-inventory model stems from Neves's past fashion failure
“The concept behind Farfetch, the way Farfetch is structured with, for example, no fashion risk, No inventory risk, but also a risk-free channel that we make accessible to creatives like I was to have a global audience without having to go and open stores every…”
Archegos liquidation drove Farfetch trading volume to 10x its average
“I mean, the volumes to give you an idea Were 10 times more or less the average volume. I think it was around 10% of the company was dumped on Friday, and probably another 10% on Monday, something like that.”
Effective decision-making requires involving emotions alongside logical reasoning
“And what he demonstrated is that you cannot make good decisions without involving your emotions.”
Self-doubt is healthy if viewed as a mental construct
“So self-doubt is very healthy as long as it doesn't cripple you. As long as you can have that detached view, again, that conscious view that, okay, wow, I'm doubting myself here. And as long as you can clearly see it for what it is a mental movie. It is a ment…”
Farfetch will not act as a retailer or designer, only an enabler
“We don't want to be a retailer. We don't want to be a designer. We're not any of those things. We are an enabler for the creative community to engage with the public that loves this part of culture, which is fashion.”
Farfetch generated just $1,000 selling Off-White in its initial 2014 season
“We sold a thousand dollars off-white, the first season, spring summer, 2014.”
José Neves names David Rosenblatt as the best board member
“I'll pick David Rosenblatt. He's also the part of Twitter and IAC, and he's the CEO of First Tips. Before that, he sold his company to Google, so not just his incredible acumen and experience, but also the fact that he's been an entrepreneur, he's been one of …”
Farfetch reached a $1B valuation on $300M to $400M in sales
“The valuation of Farfetch, that is a similar model. And they got their last round at the valuation of one billion and their total sales was around I would say 300 to four hundred million. In a year. Last year, in 2015, they got the last round of financing.”
Seton-Rogers: Europe produces the world's leading fashion tech companies
“Now, because the web is not about the infrastructure, it's about what you do with it, once again, Europe is producing some amazing, leading fashion companies whether it's Bonne-Privé five, six years ago that came out of France, or Ux and Net-A-Porter merging r…”