Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. “Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. It’s long but worth reading every word slowly.

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Rob Go

JUNE 1, 2016

Things are starting to go sideways, or the market has turned. No worries – insiders do a $20M round to get the company another year. The fund does a $5M chunk of this round. Where I think funds do start having hard conversations around follow-ons is when they need to lead inside rounds or protect themselves in down rounds.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. It’s a market.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. It’s a market.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then five years later computers became — they dropped half in price and then the big insurance companies could buy them, and that’s when Thomas Watson, who ran IBM at the time, was quoted as saying, “There’s only a market need in the world for five computers.”. So GoodData is at the intersection of kind of marketing and business.

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