PitchBook
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2020 by Jason Calacanis · said 9 times in 9 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (4), Chamath Palihapitiya (4), David Sacks (1)
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Dec 18, 2020 positive
Calacanis: Airbnb reached an $88B valuation five months after massive layoffs
“They laid off 25% of the company in July. 1900 of 7500 employees. They cut their marketing budget by eight hundred million, and then they IPO five months later, ah, and they had raised a billion dollars at an eighteen billion dollar valuation, according to Pit…”
Mar 20, 2021 positive
Feb 4, 2023
Chamath: Zero $1B+ distribution VCs came from pure engineering or PM roles
“I went into pitch book and my team and I looked at all of the people, the humans in our business. That have generated more than a billion dollars in distributions on a given deal, and there's 20 that have done that in our industry. And if you look, not a singl…”