James Reinhart

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

20VC Insight

Reed Hastings: Great Teams Allow Leaders to Manage More Direct Reports

“If you have great people working for you can manage a lot of them. If you don't have great people working for you have too many direct reports.”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 10:22 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Insight

James Reinhart: Later-Stage Fundraising Does Not Get Easier As Startups Scale

“I think sometimes the narrative is, Hey, you raise these rounds, and they just get easier and easier and easier because the capital, you know, you have to deploy gets bigger, and it's not true. It's hard every time you're asking folks to pick you over just the…”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 13:25 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Insight

Reinhart: Board members lack full operational context to give precise advice

“I think that, look, I think the board, you know, they get incredible market intelligence. They talk to lots of founders. They are in different circles. And so their perspective is quite valuable, but they obviously aren't in the company a hundred hours a week …”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 16:40 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Insight

Reinhart: If A Debate Lacks Facts, The CEO's Opinion Wins

“If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine. And what I mean by that is, I always want people to bring facts to a debate, and if all they bring are opinions, then I'm just going to use, I'm just, we're just going to go with my opinion.”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 22:23 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Insight

Reinhart: Leaders who pivot must adopt new strategies with total conviction

“I don't think it's wrong to change your mind, but I think it's wrong to not have conviction about the new approach. And I think so many leaders, they sit on the fence or, you know, they try and straddle a position.”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 8:02 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Insight

Reinhart: Capital Efficiency Matters Most in Non-Winner-Take-All Markets

“I think there's still enormous capital that's being invested in businesses for which the general narrative is it's winner take all. I think in categories for which investors think there can be multiple winners or more, then I think capital efficiency has a, pl…”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 14:04 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Insight

Reinhart: Board advice is valuable for re-examining long-held assumptions

“Every time I have a board meeting, the board asks deceptively simple questions. Things that we either take for granted or that we have believed for so long that we forgot why we believe it. And that level of feedback and inquisitiveness, right, helps us say, h…”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 17:02 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Insight

Reinhart: Fancy offices and extra finance hires do not create enterprise value

“I can tell you that the same decision to have a really fancy office or hire the ninth person on the finance team when we probably only need six, like those decisions actually don't create seven, 10 year enterprise value.”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 21:01 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Disclosure

Reinhart: Customer data showed ThredUp's original peer-to-peer model was wrong

“My vision was to reinvent the second-hand market and make it Better for buyers and sellers in 2010. And what I realized was that building a peer to peer business was not the right way. And that the data and the qualitative feedback from customers suggested tha…”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 8:45 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

20VC Assertion Partly supported

Reinhart: The Women's Apparel Resale Market Is 8x Larger Than Kids'

“A hundred percent, because that category is eight times as big as this one.”

James Reinhart Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 18:50 20VC: Why Your Board Are Right 50% of The Time, Biggest Lessons From Being Mentored By Reed Hastings & Raising $130m in Funding and The Balance Between Growth and Capital Efficiency with James Reinhart, Founder & CEO @ ThredUp

The other half of the tape: James Reinhart'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 →

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Every mention by year

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Co-Founder and CEO, ThredUp	1	10	0% 0/1	full record on 20VC →