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 95

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. Part of our mission at Draper Esprit is to democratize venture capital, as Simon would say; and [being listed on the main market] increases that opportunity.

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VC venture capital incumbents capital 102

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

As Jeff Bezos is fond of saying, “ your margin is my opportunity.”. 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.

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strategy networking disruption sustainability 101

Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

In just liking to make fun of things, or liking to try and be funny and criticize things, it seemed like a good sort of opportunity to do that. But it was more that this opportunity came up that was not something that was in my purview, which was working at Patreon. Jarvis Johnson [00:02:14] – Because I was like, wow.

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peer-to-peer advice creativity opportunity 44

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. I don’t think that’s the arbitrage, there’s still an arbitrage opportunity there now, but there’s a new one. Back in 2006, it was hard.

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