20VC: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank | Why My Biggest Mistakes Came From Listening to VCs | Why 100 VCs Turned Us Down | Why European Founders Are Tougher Than US Founders with Johannes Reck, GetYourGuide
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I would have not raced as big of a Series A. Looking back, I think it was too much dilution. What did change was that suddenly I felt like a celebrity. That was the moment when I made the biggest mistakes. If you have a Sequoia capital or an index or a Spark capital on your cap table, the reality is that your next round will be so much easier.
This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and now today we feature one of the most incredible startup stories from Europe. In the first two years of Get Your Guide Existing, they did just five bookings. Today the platform does 35,000 per day. They're worth $2 billion. The show today
has so many great stories, including how Johannes Rek, the co-founder and CEO joining us, got a $400 million check from Softbank and Masa Sun and the Napoleon portrait behind Massa that was present throughout the whole meeting. This is an incredible journey and I hope you like the show today. But before we dive into the show today, I love seeing the team come together to make this show happen. What I don't love is trying to keep track of all the information, the data and the projects that we're working on across dozens of platforms, products and tools. That's why we use Coda, the all-in-one collaborative workspace that's helped 50,000 teams all over the world.
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