Acquired / episode intelligence
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26 published records
01 / belief
“” Our first bank account was Silicon Valley Bank. We realized we had to incorporate.”
02 / prediction
“Completely safe about this, but everybody in the company when they saw a truck, will take a picture of the side of the truck and put it on the Slack channel.”
03 / commitment
“I won't say the person's name but I remember they're like, “We just have a love-hate relationship with our remote offices.”
04 / evaluation
“If it doesn't work out year after year because it just didn't work for you, then that's the area of your total loss.”
05 / belief
“The learning from that is don’t worry about getting all the trappings of the startups, I would say.”
06 / belief
“At times, I think we hold ourselves to an unreasonable bar in that respect, and I actually encourage our teams sometimes, to not even push us to get there.”
07 / belief
“I remember I was like, “Here's how much we think your Convoy stock will be worth.”
08 / belief
“I think autonomous is coming for a bunch of reasons that have a lot to do with all of the things that happened besides the driving, so stuff being loaded, secured, confirmed, locked, dealing with different people along the way.”
09 / belief
“What happened was nobody would go on and then we said, “Okay, we realized that tactic.”
10 / belief
“I thought that I understood things and then I realized I was just doing the strategy portions.”
11 / commitment
“I won't name names, but knowing friends who've worked in other startups and working in one myself, sometimes there are other priorities like a startup moving really quickly and new opportunities come.”
12 / belief
“One thing that Amazon does is that it expects a lot of ownership from the people that are in the role. It has a culture of assigning a single-threaded leader or a person who's ultimately responsible for the outcome of the thing, at least, in my experience.”
13 / uncertainty
“I said something like, “We would be willing to work with you guys, but we need all your freight on the west coast.” Just because I was like, “I don't know, I'm going to aim what they offered.”
14 / belief
“Then, when I realized after I’ve been there for a while was the planning process encourages people to come up with new ideas and pitch those ideas.”
15 / belief
“I didn't take anything for granted because I realized we’re in a world of plenty right now, we were just talking about how much capital is available that Convoy’s been able to raise a lot of money.”
16 / evaluation
“I realized, at least in my perspective (and some of the investors in New York can decide if this is right or wrong), as I was trying to get seed funding, what I learned and felt early on was, you have to check three boxes.”
17 / evaluation
“You could say, “Expand nationwide. That means we need to have supply nationwide of all these trucks that need to serve our shippers, really, really well.”
18 / recommendation
“” If you take those jobs that nobody wants, you can take the scraps from the industry, but because you're building a technology company and a holistic market place, you can then aggregate the supply out of that.”
19 / evaluation
“Once you went beyond local, you had a national network effect because these truckers, once you went beyond local, they were the carriers.”
20 / evaluation
“] economics for us, and finding that place where it's really expensive for us and we don't make much of a margin, if anything at all.” It just keeps pushing that further and further out because there's much more liquidity on the platform.”
21 / evaluation
“The knock on people that’s starting consulting or spend too much time in consulting is always like, “Oh, yeah. They're the smartest person in the room, they can definitely tell you how to solve your problem, but when it comes to doing it, it doesn't work.”
22 / recommendation
“Mine is a very cool app that is based here in Seattle that David and I used last night for the Acquired annual holiday party that is former Convoy alum.”
23 / evaluation
“Not only because, as Minh mentioned, it is (as we speak) the highest-valued startup in the Pacific Northwest, having raised a whopping $668 million in total capital, but more so because its story illustrates a really important new theme in tech that we haven't talked as much yet about on the show.”
24 / prediction
“Today we are going to talk about this company which has only existed unbelievably for 4½ years and their ambitious plans to make it easy for any truck driver to find a nearby load, transparently see what they'll get paid, and do it all as you would expect right on their smartphone.”
25 / preference
“For people who aren't from Seattle, the way to think about this is, Amazon is in one building at this point.”
26 / recommendation
“If you're looking for new things to do with your life, I highly recommend Mystery.”