abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. If we’re making a consumer internet company, it should be good for people consuming it. So we’re going to do debt.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. If we’re making a consumer internet company, it should be good for people consuming it. So we’re going to do debt.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Alexia Tsotsis: It’s grassroots versus trickle-down. Marc Andreessen: Versus trickle-down. And then small businesses start to use it. Stick a fork in it. Marc Andreessen: For now.

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