Eric Hippeau

Everything Eric Hippeau said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Opinion

Eric Hippeau: Yahoo must sell itself to better management

“No, Yahoo is not game over, and Yahoo needs, needs probably needs to sell itself to people who can manage it better and Yahoo has an enormous amount of assets namely, it's taken Alibaba, it's taken Yahoo Japan, and its own its own own and operated website whic…”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 23:16 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2020

Eric Hippeau predicts drone racing will become as popular as video games

“We believe that drones are going to have the same popularity that video games and that, that people are going to want to raise them, people are going to develop themselves as professional or semi-professional pilots that it's a very visual because these drones…”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 25:40 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Insight

Hippeau: Seed-stage execution follows well-known steps with little mystery

“What they have to do are well-known steps. There's no, there's not a lot of mystery in what needs to be done.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 14:06 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Insight

Hippeau: Early venture timing loses money, late timing yields me-too companies

“Because if you invest too early it's not gonna, the market's not gonna develop, and you, you'll lose all your money, and if you invest too late, you're gonna be investing in some sort of a me-too company.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 18:05 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Insight

Hippeau: Successful pitches focus on core concepts, not data overload

“So the very best pitches to me are pitches that are relatively simple, you know, go right to the point. Don't try to shower you with too much data. You can always put the data in the appendix because ultimately it's not going to be about the data. Ultimately i…”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 19:01 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hippeau: Digital scale gives long-form journalism a larger audience than print

“Today because of the sheer size of the audience being, you know, multiply, Bigger than it was in the past. You will, if you want to do long-form journalism, as such as we do on BuzzFeed, and we did some at the African Post as well, you, by default, you're goin…”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 20:09 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated

Eric Hippeau: Long-form journalism will never be the most popular media format

“It's never going to be the most popular form of journalism, because it was never the most popular form of journalism.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 20:36 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hippeau: BuzzFeed's proprietary technology drives its content virality and popularity

“He has benefited from the fact that he's built an enormous amount of technology that allows him to then develop the kind of content that becomes the most popular.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 22:22 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Assertion Supported

SoftBank Owned a Third of Yahoo at Its IPO

“SoftBank then ended up owning, as you'll recall a third of Yahoo at the IPO.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 3:27 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Disclosure

Lerer Hippeau's first fund was $8.5 million

“Our first fund was very, very small. It was eight and a half million dollars.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 9:03 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Disclosure

Hippeau: About 70% of Lerer Hippeau's investments are in New York

“So about 70% of our companies are in in New York itself.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 10:46 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

20VC Disclosure

Lerer Hippeau employs a full-time engineer for its founder tech platform

“We have a product, we have a technology platform, and one of our team members is a full-time engineer.”

Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 12:05 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

The other half of the tape: Eric Hippeau's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 4 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 3Ben Lerer 2Mike Lazerow 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Eric's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Managing Partner, Lerer Hippeau Ventures	1	12	100% 1/1	full record on 20VC →