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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

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. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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Current Startup Market Emotional Biases

Feld Thoughts

. “Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. Also, they have a strong belief that any sign of weakness (such as a down round) will have a catastrophic impact on their culture, hiring process, and ability to retain employees.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

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. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And so the other reason that I am very interested in delving deep into this space is that it seems like IPOs like Workday, Palo Alto Networks are sort of — they have metrics and analytics that Wall Street understands, more so than a Facebook; like “We are going to sell X number of this in the next year.” Netscape Navigator…

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The VC Death Trap

Rob Go

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. This might not be true of all VC funds, and I know a number of funds that have a mantra that they treat follow-on rounds like “a new deal”.