Nirav Tolia

9 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2025 by Nirav Tolia · across every show →

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Sep 15, 2025

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Nextdoor co-founder Prakash Janakaraman refused to code without user feedback validation

“Prakash in particular said, as the person writing the majority of the code, he said, I'm sitting on my hands and not writing a line of code until you can prove to me with user feedback that whatever idea we have, is something that's worth building.”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 31:38 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025

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Jerry Yang told Nirav Tolia he was less intelligent than he thought

“And he looked at me right in the eyes, and he said, you're a lot less intelligent than I thought you were. Do you have any idea how hard it is to build something like Yahoo? Well, you're about to find out.”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 9:45 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025

Insight

Tolia: Online contributor communities only require a 1% participation rate

“Most of these contributor communities, Guy, Of a hundred users who visit, you only need one to contribute.”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 26:44 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025 positive

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Bill Gurley blocked Fanbase's shutdown by handing Nirav Tolia Kipling's 'If'

“And he slides over a piece of paper and says, read this. And I look at it, and it's a poem. Actually, one of my favorite poems. He probably didn't know that, but it's If by Rudyard Kipling. And it was a very powerful way for him to say, I don't think you can g…”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 30:11 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025 neutral

Disclosure

Shopping.com forced Nirav Tolia to resign before IPO due to past controversies

“When you are a company that wants to go public, you want to be as unencumbered by controversy as possible, right? And the best thing for me to do at that point was to step away. Now, did I have a choice? No, not really. I mean, they kind of Asked me nicely to …”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 16:42 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025

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Tolia: Fanbase reached roughly 10 million users within months of launch

“When Fanbase launched, in a matter of months, I think we had ten million users or something crazy like that, so that there was a lot of usage, but it just never clicked.”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 25:51 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025

Assertion Supported

Tolia: Nextdoor has 335,000 distinct neighborhoods using its platform

“We have 335,000 distinct neighborhoods that use Nextdoor, and we needed to build a system that would be flexible enough that all of those neighborhoods could feel authentic to themselves.”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 39:36 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025 negative

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Tolia: Co-founder merger litigation permanently fractured friendships

“It took friendships, and it fractured them, and they've never been repaired.”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 19:45 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

Sep 15, 2025

Assertion Supported

Tolia: Nextdoor had 176 neighborhoods at national launch

“Before we uncloaked publicly, we wanted to be sure that we were on to something, and when we launched nationally, we had a 176 neighborhoods Using Nextdoor.”

Nirav Tolia Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 42:11 Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global

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