Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

Netflix is the most innovative content creation and distribution company of the last decade, leading the way in streaming since 2007 and changing the original content game with House of Cards in 2013,” said Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell, co-founders of Impact, in a joint statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2013

Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual. Never was that more clear than in this short, but tear-inducing post from 2007 by Aaron Swartz , who you probably know took his life last week at the full-life-in-front-of-him-but-didn’t-feel-that-way age of 26. I didn’t set out that way.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

People couldn’t help but expect a roll-out like that of smartphones, where the launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to adoption by every tech-savvy person by 2010, and the vast majority of the developed world by 2013. OK, and LIDAR, and cameras, but the software is the key. People couldn’t help but expect a mass market push.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Lunsford joined Tealium at the beginning of 2013, after a seven-year run as the CEO of Limelight Networks in Tempe, AZ. Lunsford oversaw WebSideStory’s IPO in 2004, and Limelight’s IPO in 2007. “For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript. It’s been about data. It’s about defining your data across the Web and now mobile.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

Never was that more clear than in this short, but tear-inducing post from 2007 by Aaron Swartz , who you probably know took his life last week at the full-life-in-front-of-him-but-didn’t-feel-that-way age of 26. And I wish you a happy, optimistic, fulfilled and mostly a healthy 2013. But of course life isn’t like this.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.” the highest it’s been in eight years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x – a little bit below the historical mean. As I’ve pointed out previously, this is perfectly captured by Joe Floyd here tracking SaaS multiples over time. This corrected only to go back up to 13.4x

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