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Ripley: Tech alumni-focused emerging VC funds have a three-fund shelf life
“The issue and the trick for the folks in our seat is it's got a three-fund shelf life. By the time you finish fund three, everybody you know at Airbnb is left. By fund four, you're talking to strangers.”
Sacca passed on Dropbox and Airbnb due to competition and safety fears
“I told the Dropbox guys that Google was going to crush them because we already had G Drive internally. I told the Airbnb guys that somebody was going to get raped or murdered and the blood was going to be on their hands when they were renting out a room in som…”
Sethi: A startup's core product-market fit dynamics never improve over time
“One thing that never changes, and we've seen that across every company, we've been a part of Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Lyft, et cetera. The list goes on where we built a lot of these growth and data science frameworks is that their product market fit and how the…”
Grinda: Concentrating on one Uber early beats high-volume venture models
“If you find Uber or Airbnb early, if that's all you do for the vast decade, you're probably going to do better than with my approach.”
Florida SBA Claims Credit for Reversing Airbnb's Disputed Territories Policy
“We engaged Airbnb. They have done a one 80 on the policy that they were pursuing in the disputed territories. It was announced publicly about two weeks ago.”
Grinda: Uber and Airbnb would probably never have existed playing by rules
“I mean, think of Uber or Airbnb, right? If they tried to play by the rules, they probably, they would have never existed.”
Garg: Y Combinator companies will create $500B to $1T in value
“Like, look at Y Combinator. They were giving people 25 to 250,000 dollars, and out of that came Stripe and Airbnb. When you add up all those companies, I think they're probably going to end up creating five hundred billion to a trillion dollars of value.”
Singh: If missing Airbnb or Shopify, invest in their ecosystem drafts
“The foundation of Coventry in many ways, and the way that I used to invest was this idea that if you miss the big platform, you don't invest in Airbnb, you don't invest in Shopify, was to sort of draft off of their success and finding ways to build or invest i…”
Adamson: Finance lacks the collaborative virtual platforms seen in the tech industry
“What we've seen in other industries and Airbnb is a great example of this, but there are many, many others is entrepreneurs working together through a kind of virtual company. Through tech, through governance enables animal spirits to flourish and creates a ki…”
a16z Initially Passed on Airbnb Before Investing at a Higher Valuation
“We did that at Airbnb. You know, we saw the very first round, and we just had lots of questions in our mind that didn't allow us to get there. We ultimately did the next round, but obviously, as you'd imagine, there's a substantial delta between the first roun…”
Hamed: Airbnb ecosystem will evolve like traditional hotels with recognized brands
“And we think that the Airbnb ecosystem will end up much like the traditional hotel ecosystem, where you have property owners, you have property managers, and you have brands that You're going to start going to an Airbnb host and come out of the shower and see …”
Reddit's early $10 million exit helped validate Y Combinator for founders
“This ten million dollar exit was the first really big one for YC, and it helped give a seal of approval that then led to Dropbox supplying, which was the first real billion dollar company, and then that led to Airbnb. Once you did it twice, it really validated…”
Sethi: Team built growth teams and products for Snapchat, Uber, Airbnb
“We did growth in data science consulting for Snapchat, for Uber, for Airbnb, all these companies. And when I say that, I don't mean it to be facetious. Like we actually sent and built teams for them. We would do multiple offsites with them. We would actually b…”