Sand Hill Road, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 11Max Levchin 4Lily Kanter 3Tobias Lütke 2Sandra Oh Lin 2Leah Solivan 2Julia Hartz 2Tristan Walker 1Shan-Lyn Ma 1Rod Cuthbert 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sand Hill Road comes up
Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
- ▶ 52:05 Lily Kanter They didn't have the return expectation of, say, a venture firm from Sand Hill Road. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:31 Lily Kanter One of our other major investor on Sandhill Road came up with the capital.
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- ▶ 24:35 Guy Raz So Toby heads to the Bay Area, buys a used bicycle on Craigslist, and pedals over to Sand Hill Road.
- ▶ 35:50 Tobias Lütke From the youth hostel to down Central Road, um, and, uh, showing up, and they probably already thought, who is this?
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
- ▶ 56:09 Michael Acton Smith Yeah, we went up and down Sand Hill Road and struck out.
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 45:57 Rod Cuthbert So we, we put a pitch deck together, uh, and we hired a car and, uh, and headed for Sand Hill Road.
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- ▶ 20:11 Ev Williams And it was frustrating because everything you read is like, oh, it's so easy to raise money just rolling down the Sand Hill Road, and I didn't know anyone.
Weee!: Larry Liu
KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin
- ▶ 0:32 Sandra Oh Lin Lots of Sandhill Road.
- ▶ 26:32 Sandra Oh Lin But I would say my vehicle, a minivan, was the only minivan in the parking lots of, of Sand Hill Road.
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
- ▶ 18:23 RJ Scaringe You know, walking up and down Sand Hill Road and sort of knocking on doors and trying to get meetings.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 42:46 Guy Raz And that there are people with money, there are people, there are investors, but still, even on Sand Hill Road, I mean, I've heard stories of,
- ▶ 50:35 Leah Solivan So we start to rent fundraise for the Series A, and we, Brian and I, sort of hit up and down Sand Hill Road, and we pitch investors, and even given all of that, the fundraise was not easy. 2 times in the scene
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 14:54 Max Levchin This time I had a brand name to bring to Sand Hill Road. 2 times in the scene
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 38:37 Max Levchin I think more than anything, first of all, I mean, just to give you a sense for the success rate of these pitches, we ran out of venture capital, kind of the Sandhill Road, classic blue chip venture capitalist community very quickly. 2 times in the scene
Houzz: Adi Tatarko
- ▶ 47:32 Adi Tatarko No decks and presentations on Sandhield Road.
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
- ▶ 56:03 Shan-Lyn Ma So that, uh, we actually started fundraising after I came back to work full-time, and so I was back in the office, we flew to Silicon Valley, hit Sand Hill Road, which is the road where all the VCs are on, and that was actually one of the…
Discord: Jason Citron
Audible: Don Katz
Hinge: Justin McLeod
- ▶ 36:44 Justin McLeod You know, there's some, a few VC firms there, and the amount of money we were looking for wasn't like Sand Hill Road money.
Boxed: Chieh Huang
- ▶ 33:02 Chieh Huang Remember like Central Jersey where we grew up, it's not Sand Hill Road.
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
Fitbit: James Park
- ▶ 41:13 James Park Same pitch, driving, you know, we're in San Francisco, driving down one-on-one to Sand Hill Road, constantly giving the same pitch to 40 VCs.
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
- ▶ 30:40 Julia Hartz And so we went to Sand Hill Road and pitched 27 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
- ▶ 2:44 Guy Raz But of course, when he first tried to raise money from all those VC firms on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, he got a lot of no's.
- ▶ 25:43 Tristan Walker That folks were unwilling to down the rest of Sandhill Road.
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- ▶ 37:07 Tobias Lütke From the youth hostel to down Central Road, um, and, uh, showing up, and they probably already thought, who is this?
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 26:42 Jeremy Stoppelman So I went and hit the road, hit Sand Hill Road, uh, to be specific, and, uh, talked to maybe 10 or 15 different firms, and, uh, essentially got laughed out of the room for the most part.
- ▶ 51:53 Guy Raz I mean, I mean, we're talking about you going down Sand Hill Road, like, nervously kind of pitching to VCs who were poking holes in your idea and not particularly impressed.
Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley
- ▶ 26:02 John Foley Because the valley, ah, out in Sand Hill Road, the valley didn't see what was happening in New York City with the Boutique Fitness movement.
Minted: Mariam Naficy
- ▶ 16:06 Mariam Naficy They had an office on Sand Hill, Sand Hill Road.