Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amy Cortese published “Venture Capital, Withering & Dying” in the New York Times on Oct 21, 2001. I came across it during a Google search & reading through the article. It’s a powerful reminder of history’s rhymes. 11, investors have become much more discriminating.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

Amazon stood fast to their principles throughout. Just as important, though, Amazon managed their finances well. Net Income, $m. Cash & ST Equivalents, $m. Before the dotcom crash, Amazon grew at 68% and lost -$1.4b in net income.

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MAY 5, 2023

Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In 2001, companies saw a 2x to 6x spike in valuation with some underlying growth and profitability assumptions for the next two to three years. Some startup founders believe that they will not be able to attract and retain the talent if a funding event suddenly makes the employees’ existing stocks less valuable. “In

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. I met Brad and Fred in the Summer of 2004, agreeing to join them later that year--my first job at a fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

As a frontline state and coalition partner in the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan saw fatalities from terrorist violence soar from 295 in 2001 to a peak of over 11,000 in 2009.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Juyeol has been with Lockton Korea since 2001. Juyeol Lee will remain President of Lockton Korea, working in conjunction with Ben and driving one of the key areas of the Korean business and various initiatives.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When I first started in venture capital, back in 2001, I used to fund funds. I worked for an institutional investor that invested in both venture capital funds and later stage growth deals. My job was to figure out why certain firms were winning and why they might continue to win. Part of this, of course, involves looking into the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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Jason Malki

JULY 10, 2023

With over two decades of experience in product development and technology, Libby embarked on her career journey at GE in 2001 through their prestigious technology graduate program, IMLP (Information Management Leadership Program). What motivated you to launch your startup?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Contributed by Rizwan Virk , author of S tartup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Some companies have to go first. Others will follow. But many of us have been there. It’s not fun. But it’s necessary.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2018

Jeff Carruthers founded Resonate in 2001, and has steered the business with a focus on what makes organizations relevant to contemporary customers as well as a keen eye for technical innovation. He joined EO in 2015.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Below are a couple examples how companies did all they could to stay afloat, and eventually, thrive: In 2001, MercadoLibre employed a freemium strategy to gain market share in the highly competitive Latin American online auction market. Here are a few takeaways: Milk every dollar, save every penny.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

“We’ve seen that all before … what’s new-ish (at least since 2001) is the massive overhang of growth investments that will take startups years to grow into,” he wrote. . “The biggest issue in venture today isn’t interest rates, revenue multiples or any of that,” posted SaaS investor Jason Lemkin on Twitter yesterday.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The startup was founded by Tanya Van Court who had her own struggles with financial literacy after losing more than $1 million in stock during the bubble burst of 2001.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

I've been in venture capital (with the exception of a year in product management and two years as an entrepreneur) since 2001, when I started doing late stage venture and fund investing at a big financial institution.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

When the market started to collapse, prices were dragged down even further by accounting scandals, such as Enron in 2001 , Arthur Andersen in 2002 and WorldCom in 2002. Capital was extremely cheap to borrow as interest rates dipped as low as 1.67% (compared to rates in the last few years bottoming out at 0.25%).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 10, 2018

After having worked in London, Frankfurt and San Francisco, he returned to Hamburg in 2001, where he lives with his wife and his seven-year-old twins. Torsten Oppermann has specialized in digital brand communication, social media and online marketing for more than 20 years.

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OurCrowd

MAY 4, 2020

“Historically, investing in times of economic downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 and 2002, and after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new investors,” Medved says. Read more here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2022

I’ve heard EO members say, “Well, my business tanked in 2001, and I figured it out, so I can figure it out again,” or “I’ve been bankrupt four times. Entrepreneurs are completely undaunted by a negative turn of events. I’m not afraid.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

. “We also made sure to check their LinkedIns twice: once in early 2021, when there were practically no tech layoffs, and again in early 2023, in the wake of the worst round of tech layoffs since 2001.” ” Should you post that you’re #OpenToWork?

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

Generation Z (2001-2020) = 5%. Breakdown of workforce by generation : Traditionalists (1925-1945) = 2%. Baby boomers (1946- 1964) = 25%. Generation X (1965-1980) = 33%. Generation Y (1981-2000) = 35%. Traditionalists.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

OutSystems was founded in 2001, making it older than most companies that we cover on TechCrunch, and yet it remains privately held. Notably this is not the largest funding event that the Portugal and U.S.-based based software company has raised. TechCrunch covered a $360 million round that OutSystems raised in 2018.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 1, 2021

Green Dot Corporation was formed by an entrepreneur in the year 2001 to create a product to permit those without credit cards to purchase items on the Internet. My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008. Sometimes, innovators enable unfinished visions of others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. CEO Henry Vogel (ex CRO of Quigo, and VP at Ebay).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact has been in the business of consumer finance since 2001, while Wasla was founded in 2018 by former Serag Meneassy and Taymour Sabry , both ex-Rocket Internet entrepreneurs, and investment banker Mahmoud El Said. “It’s

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since BCV’s first fund in 2001, the firm has invested over $4.5 The firm currently has $9.2 billion in assets under management. In May, it closed two funds valued at a combined $1.3 billion and announced a renewed focus on seed and Series A deals. It’s backed the likes of Finix, GoCardless, Airbase and Orum.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I met my future business partner Jennifer Polovetsky in 2001 when we were adversaries. Keeping an open mind was a way for me to get through the corporate unknown and made a significant impact on my career. She was an attorney for the City of New York, and I was on the other side. Philip Sanchez is a partner at Sanchez & Polovetsky PLLC.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Startup.com (2001). Moneyball (2011). The Godfather (1972). Nightcrawler (2014). The Social Network (2010). Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). Rocky (1976). Office Space (1999). Ctrl+Alt+Compete (2011). Steve Jobs (2015). Chef (2014). The Internship (2013). Wild (2014). The Great Invisible (2014).

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Surging Growth: This period started in 2001. It was during this period that Netflix stopped selling DVDs and launched subscription services. Growth Inflection point: Netflix hit its growth inflexion point in 2000 with its revenue at 41 million. Go On, Tell Us What You Think! Did we miss something?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Dedicated Public Servant : Garcetti has been a member of the LA City Council since 2001 and was a three-time president. Smart : He was graduated from arguably our top-rated high school (Harvard Westlake), B.A. from Columbia, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and studied at London School of Economics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Metapa was in the Akamai space and as the markets cratered in 2001 for funding infrastructure projects, Scott Yara (the company’s founder) and team bought a small company called Didera and turned it into Greenplum, the first petabyte scale data warehouse built on top of open-source technology,” Sim told TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In a study conducted by Cambridge Associates, researchers found that the real failure rate hasn’t gone above 60% since 2001. The problem, she says, is that the data actually proves otherwise. According to Griffith, the 90% failure myth serves to soothe the bruised egos of those startup founders who failed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, I recently wrote about my philosophy of minimalism that “ less is more &# with the mantra “when in doubt, leave it out.&#.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. EDT, we’re talking with M13 partner Anna Barber about what today’s founders can learn from the dot-com bubble bursting. May your week have all the right kinds of surprises in it! — Christine and Haje.

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