Josh Elman

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

20VC Opinion

Elman: Consumer mobile is not in a downturn, just well-served

“So I don't believe we're in a downturn. I just believe we're, we have some markets that are very well served by ways that we can connect and talk to our friends and family, and you have to tap into something new and something very different in order to get big…”

Josh Elman Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 11:29 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

20VC Disclosure

Elman reveals he was kicked out of Twitter during product restructuring

“And then, you know, I honestly got kicked out of Twitter. You know, I in some of the turmoil of Twitter, they were restructuring the product team and asked me not to go to work the next day.”

Josh Elman Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 4:07 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

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Elman: Facebook Insiders See Instagram App Install Ads as Significantly Underpriced

“The tip I got yesterday at F eight talking about to Facebook folks is they think Instagram app install ads are significantly underpriced relative to Facebook.”

Josh Elman Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 20:16 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator

20VC Opinion

Elman: Twitter Should Let Users Follow Broad Topics Instead of Accounts

“Most people cannot figure out how to get their Twitter tuned. I call it tuning your Twitter feed in the same way that I have. And so I really think what they can do to make Twitter much, much easier is help people tune it much more broadly.”

Josh Elman Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 6:47 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

20VC Insight

Elman: Great founders treat fundraising as hiring an investor

“I see a lot of founders try to engineer a process instead of necessarily figure out who they really want to team up with and work with. And the great ones I think actually have in their mindset I'm going out to hire an investor.”

Josh Elman Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 18:50 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

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Elman: 10% of early Discord users spent 10 hours daily on app

“There were 10% of the users were using, you know, had it on and were interacting with it for 10 hours a day.”

Josh Elman Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 22:48 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

20VC Assertion Supported

Elman: Global video game spending exceeds movies and music

“The amount spent on games as an entertainment, it's actually bigger than movies worldwide, And it's certainly bigger than music.”

Josh Elman Apr 4, 2016 ▶ 23:22 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated

Elman: Airbnb's growth team expanded from 3 to over 100 people

“Ed joined Uber to start the growth team when it was five people, and then over the three and a half years became kind of VP of both product and growth for kind of all of Uber, and Gustav joined, and the Airbnb growth team was him and two other people when he g…”

Josh Elman Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 0:25 Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator

The other half of the tape: Josh Elman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 22 times in 6 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 18Kelly Peeler 3Sarah Guo 1

Every mention by year

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Partner, Andreessen Horowitz	1	6	100% 1/1	full record on 20VC →
Y COMBINATORLEDGER	Partner, Andreessen Horowitz	1	2	—	full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast →