Showing posts with label Airbnb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airbnb. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Updated: Ashton Kutcher Invests In Gidsy, An Airbnb For Travel Experiences
Various German media outlets are reporting that Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher, has invested once again in a startup in Berlin, after doing so with SoundCloud and Amen. What is it with Ashton and Berlin? Post-Demi, is he planning to move or something? A kind of Airbnb for what you do at a place, not just where you sleep, we've now exclusively confirmed that Gidsy got a $1.4 million seed Investment from Sunstone Capital, along with Index Ventures, Werner Vogels (of Amazon), Peter Read (UK) and the aforementioned Kutcher. The new investors join Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss from Soundcloud, Matt Stinchcomb from Etsy, Felix Petersen from Amen and 'investor of the year' at The Europas Awards, Christophe Maire, who provided the company’s early financing.]]>
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Chamath Palihapitiya To Airbnb CEO: “If You Want Liquidity,… Make It Available To Everyone”
Should founders take money off the table in later venture rounds, and if so under what circumstances? An extraordinary private email to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky from investor and former Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya which was leaked to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD brings this question into sharp focus once again. The email is reprinted below, you should read it in it's entirety. Palihapitiya doesn't take issue so much with the founders collecting $21 million of the $112 million round for themselves, but rather with the way that they did it. "My basic principle on this stuff is that if you want liquidity, that’s fine, but you should make it available to everyone. Otherwise, no one should get it," he writes. They took it as a straight dividend which, notes Palihapitiya, "allows you guys to take money out of the business and not dilute yourself."]]>
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Airbnb, Quora, and Uber Will Shake Things Up At Disrupt NYC
At Disrupt NYC, we're all about startups. We've culled two dozen of the hottest startups from over 500 applicants to launch at the event (which starts May 23, get tickets here). We are also bringing startups well on their way to disrupting existing markets onstage to share their experiences. Two sessions I am particularly excited about will bring the founders of Airbnb, Uber, and Quora to Disrupt NYC. Quora founder Charlie Cheever will be interviewed by Hunch founder Chris Dixon in a live session of his TCTV show Founder Stories. Quora, which was founded by Facebook expats Cheever and Adam D'Angelo, takes a unique social approach to Q&A and general knowledge discovery. Cheever will talk about their approach to designing their product, fostering a community that can provide the best answers on the Web, and how Quora plans to expand to new areas of knowledge and expertise.]]>
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