Ryan Graves
person on 4 shows · 7 statements across 5 episodes · said 34 times in 11 episodes since 2016
20VC 31 
Acquired 1 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
My First Million 1
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- 20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
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- Uber's First Investor, First Round Capital's Rob Hayes on How The Deal Of The Decade Originated and Why Product Orientated VC Is The Future
- 20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- 20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- 20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
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7 statements about Ryan Graves, every show
Uber's founders outsourced early coding and hired Ryan Graves via Twitter
“The Uber founders, Travis and Garrett, they didn't work on it full time. Uber was not a project they were willing to do. They just literally tweeted out, Hey, we need a general manager. And random guy named Ryan Graves was like, I'm a hustler. I'll do it. And …”
Pachama raised double its target from Ryan Graves, Sacca, and Accel
“We ended up racing almost twice as much as we wanted to race initially from an amazing group of people. Our lead investor is Ryan Graves, the co-founder of Uber. He, who has experience building a global marketplace. We got investment from Chris Saka, who, you …”
Caldbeck: Passing on Uber at 10 employees was my biggest miss
“My biggest miss far and away was Uber. Far and away. I mean, I met Ryan when the company was 10 people, and I just, I didn't get how people could afford to be paying 50 dollars for rides that were, you know, eight, 10 blocks, and at that point, there was no no…”
David Cohen invested $50k in Uber after asking for a $100k allocation
“And I said, I was in sitting on that bar stool. I think I asked for a 100,000 dollars. And, you know, cause at the time I think that was the sort of up leveling that we were trying to do in that fund. And I got 50. It's fine. I took 50.”
No seed investor predicted Uber's ultimate scale except its founders
“Anybody that says that they did, other than, you know, Travis and Ryan, who actually did kind of have that vision early on would be lying to you.”
VCs passed on Uber due to a small market and unknown CEO
“A lot of the reasons that people didn't invest were one, at the time it was an unknown guy, Ryan Graves running the company and two, It was seen as not a very big market.”
Ryan Graves built Uber's operational core and expansion playbook
“In Ryan's case, it turned out to be true. I mean, he, he's an amazing guy. And, you know, if you look at You know, the impact that he's had on Uber and the culture there and, you know, how they, you know, kind of started, you know, going from city to city and …”