eBay, every mention
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every year anyone Ted Seides 9Fabrice Grinda 6Savneet Singh 5Jeff Hausenbold 4Chris Dixon 4Steve Papa 3Stephen McKeon 3Bill Orem 3Regan Bozman 2Mike Tian 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
Moat Investing Nuances – Pat Dorsey (EP.509)
- ▶ 35:29 Pat Dorsey The trouble is, and you've seen this with eBay, you see this with some of the European online listings companies, once you get that market, now what?
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 35:19 unnamed speaker Lori, president of eBay, who's been an operating partner since 2013, she moved to Amsterdam to help run one of our companies six, seven, eight years ago for six months.
Sanjay Ayer – Think Different and Get Better at WCM (EP.366)
- ▶ 7:09 Sanjay Ayer I remember when eBay first came out, I had like a spelling arbitrage model going where I'd buy misspelled tickets and resell them with the proper spelling.
Seth Klarman – Timeless Value Investing (EP.328)
- ▶ 1:21:38 Ted Seides Margin of safety that you wrote 30 years ago now, and whether you're thinking about an update to that high-priced, scarce book, only available on eBay.
Tony Yoseloff – Forty Years of Davidson Kempner (Capital Allocators, EP.313)
- ▶ 1:01:37 Tony Yoseloff And I picked up later on in life, especially as eBay got to be very popular.
William Orum – Mission-Aligned Allocation at Capricorn (Climate Solutions EP.2, Capital Allocators EP.301)
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 39:59 Tom Steyer In 1996, people used to talk about the internet companies like eBay and
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 19:11 Anthony Scaramucci I'm sitting in front of my fat box computer with my wired connected mouse, and underneath my desk is this modem that's gonna dial up the internet, and it's gonna whirr and burr and catch a dial tone, and then 35 to 40 seconds later, my…
Adam Wyden - ADW Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.37)
- ▶ 6:06 Adam Wyden The remote control cars that I figured out, you could buy them at the hobby store online and then go and build them and spec them and paint the case and sell it for three or four X on eBay. 2 times in the scene
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 34:17 Regan Bozman It's more or less like eBay for NFTs, but what's obviously different about it is all of their smart contracts are open source and anyone can see them. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 12:23 Chris Dixon You look at your phone and you look at the apps you use, the vast majority of them, whether they're social networks, payment networks, marketplaces like eBay and Amazon, they're networks.
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 18:10 Stephen McKeon It's a whole new type of economic model around marketplaces relative to a web to marketplace like eBay, where maybe there's a cut on the sale, but then it's over after that.
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 10:38 Steve Papa He had been trading on eBay. 3 times in the scene
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 40:31 Renata Quintini She actually was at eBay, PayPal, and then she went to Uber Eats.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 11:47 Fabrice Grinda So my first startup was in eBay for Europe. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:46 Fabrice Grinda It is Craigslist mixed with eBay and most of these countries, absolutely crushing it.
- ▶ 33:51 Fabrice Grinda In 2009, I met a team that was building eBay of Latin America, and so I gave them the business plan technology for my company.
Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- ▶ 23:20 Kyle Samani Basically any web business today you look at, that's more or less true for PayPal, eBay, all of these things.
Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
- ▶ 5:46 Savneet Singh My father was a doctor, so I always thought I'd be a doctor, but in high school, I had started a business selling baseball cards on eBay. 5 times in the scene
Ryan Batchelor – Clifford Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.11)
- ▶ 51:06 Ryan Batchelor He did write a book, Margin of Safety, which retails for thousands on eBay if you try to find a copy.
Mike Tian – Moat Trajectories and Investing in China at WCM (Capital Allocators, EP.212)
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 4:21 Ted Seides Prior to joining SoftBank, Jeff worked at 16 companies, including 11 years as CEO of Shutterfly, four years in the early days of eBay, four as a special industry advisor to KKR, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:09 Ted Seides So we're going to dive into what you've been doing the last couple of years, but before that, with your experience really at eBay and Shutterfly, would love to hear your biggest takeaways and lessons from running two businesses. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:42 Jeff Hausenbold So for example, at eBay, I led the investment in Mercado Libre.
- ▶ 24:55 Jeff Hausenbold And as I said, I created an amazing data group at Alta Vista, brought them to eBay, brought that team back to Shutterfly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:02 Jeff Hausenbold And then the success of Silicon Valley and the success of the first wave of companies from Cisco and eBay to the second wave of Facebook and Twitter to now the third wave of the DoorDashes and the SoFi's and the Airbnbs are leading people…
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- ▶ 15:43 Seth Ginns And it was the S one where PayPal spun out of eBay.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 11:45 Chris Dixon I started a machine learning company called Hunch in 2008, which fast forward sold to eBay in 2011.
- ▶ 15:51 Chris Dixon So just observing that in the inside, that was my only experience at big companies was those kind of year stints at McAfee and then eBay later on.
- ▶ 16:25 Chris Dixon So that was my entrepreneur career, which ended in 2011 when I sold Hunch to eBay.
Mike Trigg – Defying the Fade at WCM (Capital Allocators, EP.162)
- ▶ 20:15 Mike Trigg And if you look back in time, I mean, we were buying Dell instead of Apple, eBay instead of Amazon, Yahoo instead of Google.
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
- ▶ 7:37 Beezer Clarkson The founder of eBay.
Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- ▶ 9:28 Anne Martin So I was involved with the Amazon IPO, the eBay IPO.
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 18:50 Scott Kupor So we were part of the group that bought Skype out of eBay, and then that got sold about 18 months later to Microsoft.
Stephen McKeon – Professor of Crypto Security Tokens (Capital Allocators, EP.69)
- ▶ 45:20 Stephen McKeon And so, to the degree that you can expand markets, so, like, then, you know, eBay, 2 times in the scene
Paul Black - Gratitude, Fun, and Growth Stocks (Capital Allocators, EP.51)
- ▶ 40:12 Paul Black Yahoo instead of Google, eBay instead of Amazon, and Dell instead of Apple.