Starting & Scaling Postmates With Bastian Lehmann | EM Group Chat
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2024
- Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #162 (6/18) with Bastian Lehmann. Bastian is the Co-founder & former CEO of Postmates, an early on-demand & delivery marketplace that scaled to being one of the largest. Postmates raised over $900 million from top investors and was notably acquired by Uber in 2020 for a reported $2.65 billion.
0:06 Intro
1:18 Bastian's background
2:56 The founding story & first steps for starting Postmates
19:02 Being early & pioneering a category
22:15 How Postmates expanded markets
26:44 Bastian's fundraising learnings & lessons after raising over $900 million
31:28 Applying learnings as a second-time founder
33:35 Group Q&A on hiring & team building
39:03 Group Q&A on starting TipTop as a second-time founder
41:43 Group Q&A on learning from failures
49:11 Group Q&A on early marketplace hires
53:43 Parting marketplace advice
Bastian on Twitter: / basti
Postmates: www.postmates.com
Mike (Yoroomie) on Twitter: / yoroomie
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Excellent video. So much wisdom from Bastian's experience. thankyou for taking the time
So many great insights! It's encouraging to hear an example of "do things that don't scale" leading to such a scalable company.
What an incredible group chat and huge thanks again to Bastian for joining us! This was wild to hear all of the stories from the early days starting Postmates and extent of what "do the things that don't scale" means when building a marketplace. I have so many notes that I took from this myself and I think this is going to be a must watch episode for founders.
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