Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad.

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incumbents founder leadership advice 89

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2006, Hubspot launched as a way to take advantage of the trend, giving marketers a platform designed to get inbound leads via blog posts. And, can startups imitate the sort of content production we’re seeing at incumbent SaaS companies? But why is it happening? It’s time for richer content.

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media SaaS incumbents technology 98

Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Jarvis Johnson [00:54:57] – Yeah, that was like, 2006, 2007. It’s kind of whenever there is like an incumbent, and then somebody new coming in, there’s all this energy towards keeping the incumbent in power, and that’s what I feel with, that’s kind of how I feel about YouTube and traditional media.

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peer-to-peer advice creativity opportunity 44

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents. In 2006, Benchmark started spending time with Gary Swart and the team at oDesk. In the late 1990’s companies like Expedia and Travelocity had become enamored with what is known as the “ merchant model.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Stuart Chapman: I co-founded Esprit with Simon Cook back in 2006, and after a 10-year journey of raising conventional funds, we were coming to the point of raising our fourth fund. You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Brian Halligan [17:10] – Yep, if I thought there was, the arbitrage opportunity when we started HubSpot in 2006 was generating leads online. What’s fascinating to me about my mornings is those six startups, and they are startups, are all very much part of my life and have completely disrupted the incumbents in those space.

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