Selina Tobaccowala
7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 11, 2019 by Selina Tobaccowala · across every show →
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Nov 11, 2019 negative
Nov 11, 2019
Tobaccowala: Evite Conceived in 1998 as Consumer Adaptation of Web Calendar
“We're sitting outside, and we said, oh, well, what if we take this web calendar thing and we let consumers do it? Let them organize stuff with their friends. And that was the birth of Evite, and this was July, August, 1998.”
Nov 11, 2019 positive
Nov 11, 2019
Tobaccowala: VCs Forced Evite Sale After Dot-Com Crash Erased Valuations
“We definitely could have continued with a thinner staff, but the main concern was from the venture capitalists in the sense that they are looking at, can this become a billion-dollar valued business? And given that, all of a sudden, valuations had fallen throu…”
Nov 11, 2019
Tobaccowala: Collage conceived personalized web homepages before My Yahoo
“And the idea was, is that you could clip together stuff from all over the web, create your own homepage, and then algorithmically, we would update it for you as things updated. And this was before my Yahoo, before that concept of creating a homepage.”
Nov 11, 2019 negative
Nov 11, 2019
Tobaccowala: Only two employees transitioned in Ticketmaster Evite acquisition
“So actually only two of us went with the deal. Myself and this other guy, Jim, who was in charge of all of the advertising relationships. And so we were literally moving the company down to LA, and we were going to rebuild.”