Pipe
company on 12 shows · 10 statements across 7 episodes · said 138 times in 41 episodes since 2020
20VC 63 
All-In 20 
Top Founders 15 
Startups For the Rest of Us 10 
Acquired 8 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 8 
My First Million 7 
Lenny's Podcast 4 
the Knowledge Project 1 
TBPN 1 
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 87 mentions in 23 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? Were they really Burning $10M per Month? Where did Bolt Succeed Where Fast Did Not? What is It Really Like To Have Stripe Invest in your Company?
- 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?
- 20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St
- 20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
- 20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- 20VC: The Memo: Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Keith Rabois; Investing Lessons from Prior Busts, How Their Investor Psychology Changed, What Can Be Applied To Today's Market
- Founder Net worth Map: How to use your SaaS to cash out, diversify without losing control
- The Laws of Community Building with Natalie Ellis
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2021 33 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- How Venture Capitalists Make Money with Brianne Kimmel | My First Million #206
- E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- 20VC: Has Price Discipline Disappeared? Is it Possible to Build Ownership Over Time? Why Venture Is Less Collaborative Now Than Ever? How fast Do Breakout Companies Become Obvious? How To Construct an Optimised and Repeatable Investment Decision-Making Pr
- Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper
- What Happened: Only $7k in Bank, Now $4.5m ARR, 100% YoY Growth
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Episode 487 | Startup Roundtable Discussing Hey.com, Leadpages’ Acquisition, and More Hot Topics
- Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- #94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- 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
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10 statements about Pipe, every show
High de-SPAC redemptions make PIPE financing the primary capital-raising mechanism
“The general premise that there's going to be, you know, that there's going to be full redemptions, I think remains true that the expectation is that there is close to or nearly full redemptions at the time of the closing of the D-SPAC, so the pipe becomes the …”
Bark Raised $200 Million in SPAC PIPE Following $500 Million Demand
“We went out to raise a hundred million through that pipe process. We had an interest of nearly five hundred million, so we ended up raising 200 from that in addition to the SPAC funds.”
Carpel: Some non-dilutive lenders prohibit investing funds outside the business
“Some of them may not allow you to take out the money to put it into a commercial real estate investment, or to, Seed another VC you would like to, if you wanted to invest the money and back a friend starting another company, for example.”
Carpel: Pipe's maximum financing term is 12 months
“I think Pipe's max term is 1212 months, right? So something like this, you may be able to get more like two, two, three years of financing.”
Carpel: SaaS financing platforms like FounderPath and Pipe do not require personal guarantees
“With Nathan's product, and pipe, and espresso, and lighter, as far as I know, almost every one of them do not have a personal guarantee.”
Benson: Three quarters of SaaS lenders offer 1-year deals unusable for headcount
“Three quarters of the SaaS lenders are like, they want to do one-year deals, which you can't invest in, in human capital over one year.”
Kimmel: Pipe Hit $2B+ Valuation After Her $9M Post-Money Seed Investment
“When I invested in Pipe, it was at, like, a nine post, and now they're worth north of two billion”
Kimmel: Pipe Investment Returned Fund 1 on Paper Within 18 Months
“So on paper, it has returned the fund. And so I ha I have returned the fund in the first year and a half.”
Palihapitiya: Fintech startup Pipe reached multi-billion valuation in under two years
“That company's worth a couple billion dollars in less than two years of its existence.”