Agile VC

article thumbnail

Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

My wife’s 2013 Ford Explorer, pretty much the quintessential mass market car for a suburban family like ours, literally has all of the features above. Like pretty much all innovation in cars, these features were only available in the most expensive luxury models initially.

Virginia 100
article thumbnail

Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”. But by definition, once-in-a-generation companies only come along say once in a generation or perhaps once a decade or so.

IPO 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

About 46% of airline related queries on Kayak (again vast majority of usage for flights) currently rely on data licensed from ITA and the current agreement runs out at the end of 2013, though obviously Kayak is working hard to reduce reliance on this data.

article thumbnail

Change Collective: Helping Create A Better You

Agile VC

It was great to get to know him and offer informal input, and though I wasn’t an investor in Zeo we stayed in pretty close contact over the years and then more recently in 2013 as he started to think about his next project.

article thumbnail

Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

If this were a math class, I’d just say the proof is evident but if you want some data on Twitter’s 2013 YTD revenue here you go. There haven’t been any consumer internet companies with premium service business model to go public in 2013 here.

IPO 194
article thumbnail

Facebook Paid

Agile VC

That’s no longer the case… estimates range from $3-5+ billion for YouTube’s ad revenue in 2013. But a lot of people also underestimated Google’s ability to monetize YouTube when they paid $1.5 billion for it. Lastly, hats off to the folks at Sequoia.

Valuation 159
article thumbnail

Facebook Paid

Agile VC

That’s no longer the case… estimates range from $3-5+ billion for YouTube’s ad revenue in 2013. But a lot of people also underestimated Google’s ability to monetize YouTube when they paid $1.5 billion for it. Lastly, hats off to the folks at Sequoia.

Valuation 127