Evidence receipt / recommendation
Published · transcript-backedKevin Hartz: recommendation
25 Aug 2020 Acquired Eventbrite (with Julia & Kevin Hartz)
“I think that's a thing to think about as a founder, is that you want to try a lot of different experiments, and you want to watch and see what happens when your products reach the market, and where it gets used.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Kevin Hartz
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- recommendation
- Recorded
- 25 Aug 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Yeah, infrared money transfer. That's correct. What they found is that infrared money transfer had to be done physically and they found they were very observant. I think that's a thing to think about as a founder, is that you want to try a lot of different experiments, and you want to watch and see what happens when your products reach the market, and where it gets used. What happened is that the accounts were based on email. They were then figuring out ways for merchants to transfer money online, and it quickly spread to eBay, where it was the leading—at the time—ecommerce marketplace site, where the merchants found this great way to get paid immediately, which was not obvious at the time and kind of crazy. Kevin, when you say you were an investor prelaunch, how did that come to be? Did Peter bring you into it or how did that opportunity present itself?…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.