Evite, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Guy Raz 41Selina Tobaccowala 14John Foley 2Leah Solivan 1Julia Hartz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Evite comes up
Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
- ▶ 10:34 Leah Solivan That's kind of what I'm thinking, and I just wonder, like, if you kind of look at the competitive landscape of what's out there today, like, I think Paperless Post, I think Evite, I think these big apps, you know, that
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
- ▶ 32:32 Julia Hartz Or you're just trying to build a next Evite?
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
- ▶ 0:24 Guy Raz So, you guys had to lay off more than half of the people who worked at the company.
- ▶ 0:56 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two friends from college pioneered the idea for online invitations and then rode the ups and downs of the dot-com bubble with their company, Evite. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:06 Selina Tobaccowala And that was the birth of Evite, and this was July, August, 1998.
- ▶ 23:46 Guy Raz And just to kind of be clear, like, Levi was and is, but, but then, 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Selina Tobaccowala And, um, a couple months later, we met a guy named Josh Silverman, and he was Stanford Business School, and he'd written a business plan for this company, I think it was called To Gather, which was basically Evite, and we met up, and it… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:03 Guy Raz Does that mean that Evite by 2000 was starting to see significant revenue?
- ▶ 36:19 Guy Raz When we come back, how Selena and Al broke some very bad news to their colleagues, and why they eventually decided to put Evite up for sale.
- ▶ 39:22 Guy Raz So clearly you knew, once the writing was on the wall, it was clear that Evite was going to have to lay off people on, on it seemed to be 70, 75 people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:57 Guy Raz Why did you, I mean, even after the layoffs, why did the company think that it needed to sell? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:35 Guy Raz Worked for Ticketmaster, involved in the ticket sales business, you would, I guess, by 2002, you really had nothing to do with Evite anymore. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:33 Selina Tobaccowala This is my same co-founder from Evite.
- ▶ 55:01 Selina Tobaccowala Versus having always Dave there, you know, um, and so the responsibility when I was at Evite didn't really hit me until we had to lay the people off, you know, like, and then all of a sudden you were like, 7 times in the scene
Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley
- ▶ 9:37 John Foley Um, they had just bought this tiny company called evite.com, that interestingly, you'll appreciate this, a lot of budding entrepreneurs listening to this, um, they had poured, I believe, forty-five million dollars into building evite. 2 times in the scene