Jeff Hausenbold

6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 29, 2021 by Jeff Hausenbold · across every show →

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Mar 29, 2021 bearish
Disclosure
Housenbold: SoftBank passed on investing in Zoom at a $6 billion valuation
“I could tell you how I passed on Zoom at six billion dollars because I thought that was too expensive, or I passed on Procore.”
Jeff Hausenbold Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 30:55 Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
Mar 29, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Housenbold: 13 of his 18 SoftBank investments were not actively fundraising
“And of the 18 investments I did, I think 13 of them were not fundraising when I put the money in.”
Jeff Hausenbold Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 37:23 Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
Mar 29, 2021 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Housenbold: SoftBank made roughly $12 billion in profit on DoorDash
“So for example, I put roughly six hundred million dollars into DoorDash and got a 17 or 18 X. My dear friend Pagemon at Pear put two million in and got like a 300 X. But the quantum of dollars, we made about twelve billion dollars in profit today on that inves…”
Jeff Hausenbold Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 45:18 Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
Mar 29, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Housenbold: Shutterfly grew to 77% market share and bought 17 competitors
“And when I joined, we had one percent of the market, and when I left, we had 77% of the market. And I went on to buy 17 of my competitors, including Yahoo Photos and Kodak, American Greening, Sony, Fuji, etc.”
Jeff Hausenbold Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 13:52 Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
Mar 29, 2021
Disclosure
Housenbold: SoftBank was the largest shareholder in 17 of his 18 investments
“So at the vision fund, I've had the pleasure to take, I've done 18 investments, 17 of which we were the largest shareholder.”
Jeff Hausenbold Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 25:41 Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
Mar 29, 2021 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Housenbold: Made eBay Google's first advertising customer in the world
“In that role, I also became Google's first customer in the world. Having ran AltaVista and competed with them, they were starting to monetize their search, and I became the first customer, and that really changed the trajectory for both Google and for eBay”
Jeff Hausenbold Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 11:03 Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
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