Parse
company on 6 shows · 6 statements across 2 episodes · said 58 times in 11 episodes since 2015
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 40 
20VC 9 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 5 
TBPN 2 
Top Founders 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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2019 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith
- Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
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- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
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Parse sold to Facebook too early and would have survived independently
“Yeah, we sold early. I think we had a lot of momentum, something great going. One thing I think people don't realize is the venture market actually really didn't appreciate the type of thing we were doing in the same way that it appreciates it now. You look at…”
Bernstam: Parse was formed by merging three independent entities
“Parse is actually the merger of three independent entities. So Ilya was a solo founder in Parse. Working on like a find your friends app sort of thing. Which like was very popular at the time. And Kevin wasn't even in YC. Kevin emailed, Kevin had been in YC pr…”
Bernstam: Sourcing the best former colleagues of new hires drives recruiting
“Once we kind of got, like, a couple amazing hires out of the Google search team, we just kept asking every, we asked every single hire, like, who's the best person you've worked with? Like, who would you co-found a company with? And then we would just go, go t…”
Bernstam: Facebook shutting down Parse was a remarkably graceful sunset
“The company did an amazing job with that. I think it was one of the best shutdowns of a company that I've seen. So often, users are really angry and, like, but this was a really graceful, long, like, over a year notice that we were gonna be shut down. Open sou…”
Bernstam: Firebase pivoted from web chat into backend services before Google acquisition
“Well, Firebase did, right? So they were actually in our batch. They were a different company at the time. They were doing like basically chat for every website. They were trying to do that for everyone. And they ended up pivoting later into doing basically lik…”