Episode #1 of Yesterday:
Kevin Hartz co-founded Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), Xoom (IPO & acq. PayPal), and A*, an early-stage venture firm managing hundreds of millions of dollars. Recently, he also co-founded Sauron, a high-end home security company.
Kevin has been an early angel investor in PayPal, Airbnb, Uber, SpaceX, Pinterest, Palantir, Anduril, and many more companies worth tens of billions.
In this episode, we start by discussing his early upbringing in the East Bay of San Francisco, some of which he spent building bombs. We then discuss his explorative time at Stanford & Oxford, growing close to the likes of Thiel and the PayPal mafia, revenue wars with Airbnb, and co-founding / investing in many notable companies worth billions of dollars.
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