Wish
company on 10 shows · 8 statements across 5 episodes · said 96 times in 46 episodes since 2017
20VC 65 
the a16z Podcast 9 
American Optimist 5 
Lenny's Podcast 5 
All-In 4 
Another Podcast 2 
My First Million 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Top Founders 1
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20VC 65the a16z Podcast 9American Optimist 5Lenny's Podcast 5All-In 4Another Podcast 2My First Million 2the Startup Ideas Podcast 22 more shows
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2023 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year
- The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- The Year That Changed Medicine Forever | Francisco Gimenez Explains the Biotech Revolution. · Joe Lonsdale
- 20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
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2021 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why VCs Should Care More About Cost of Capital and Less About Ownership, Investing Lessons from working with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, Why Liquidity Aligns Incentives Between Founders and Investors & Why It Is The Last Double That Matters in Ven
- 20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More
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2020 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- 20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 24 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- 20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- 20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- 20VC: HitRecord's Joseph Gordon-Levitt on How Show Business Prepared Him For Life As An Entrepreneur, What Founders Should Look For Most In Their Investor Base & Why The Current Ad Model of Social Is Harming The World's Creative Spirit
- 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
- 20VC: How To Build Meaningful Relationships With Your Investors, 4 Key Elements CEOs Must Focus On In Scale Mode & How Top Optimise Leadership Team Dynamics with Joel Flory, Founder & CEO @ VSCO
- 20VC: The 3 Stages of Denial For Founders When Scaling, Why You Will Likely Be Unable To Hire Through Your Network & The Interview Question All Founders Must Ask with Olof Mathé, Founder & CEO @ Mixmax
- 20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
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2018 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- 20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- 20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- 20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- 20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
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2017 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
- 20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun
- 20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- 20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
- 20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- 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: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
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8 statements about Wish, every show
Lonsdale Invested in Wish at a $6M Post-Money Valuation in 2010
“So I invested in wish at six million dollars post in 2010 out of my angel fund.”
Lonsdale Lost Hundreds of Millions by Holding Wish Stock Post-Distribution
“I personally did not get any out. My angel fund was able to get a lot out to, for everyone else. And I took the distributions, didn't sell them. So unfortunately I didn't end up, you know, I probably lost a few hundred million dollars from not, For not selling…”
Chan: Temu operates central packaging warehouses, unlike Wish's direct-factory model
“Wish would allow people to shop on Wish, and then the factory ships directly. So it's just like a listing marketplace. Just like a Craigslist. Timu has warehouses. The factories have to ship their products to the warehouses. Someone is packing it all in a Timu…”
Moore: Temu's six-month repeat order rate is 5x higher than rivals
“What's coming out in the data, at least from what we can see, is Temu's repeat order rate is like five times higher if you get to like month six and beyond.”
Carter invested blindly in ContextLogic and missed the Wish pivot
“And you said you were gonna invest, and you said Troy, you should put some money in. And, you know, I honestly, I had no idea what Peter was talking about. Like, I had, you know, a little inkling, but you trusted him so much, and I trusted you so much, I'm lik…”
Lonsdale: Wish Rose from a $6M Valuation to $25B
“Because he went up 10,000 X, and then had trouble in China, but anyway, there was some genius there, because you can't go from six million valuation to twenty-five billion without knowing something, right?”
Collison: Wish increased mobile conversion by 7% using Stripe Elements
“So Wish is an e-commerce company. They flipped over from a checkout they had built on mobile to Stripe Elements. We spent all this time optimizing a mobile checkout just because it's an interest for us to do and not other people. And they saw a seven percent u…”