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Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Insights from Jeff Bezos, Must-Read Books, & More

Tim Ferriss

Company Bill Gurley worked with, which demonstrated strong network effects and significant growth despite early skepticism.

E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles

All-In Podcast

Cited as an exception where Bill Gurley knowingly bought back into the company at a low valuation in 2009, holding it until it was sold to Booking.com due to perceived network effects.

E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act

All-In Podcast

Restaurant reservation platform whose API can be integrated with ChatGPT via plugins.

Alfred Lin with Justin Kan

Y Combinator

A restaurant booking platform that was an early investment of Venture Frogs and was sold shortly after its investment.

Nick Kokonas Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

Tim Ferriss

A reservation system that Nick Kokonas criticized for its monopoly, lack of API access, and practice of selling customer data to competitors, leading him to build Tock.

Classpass Founder: Quitting My 9-5 Led To A $1 Billion Business: Payal Kadakia | E141

The Diary Of A CEO

A restaurant reservation platform that served as an inspiration for ClassPass's initial model.

Nick Kokonas on Resurrecting Restaurants, Skin in the Game, and Investing | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss

Dominant restaurant reservation system that Tock Inc. successfully competed against by offering a differentiated product, even when it seemed ubiquitous.

Sequoia VC Reveals: The One Trait That Built Airbnb, DoorDash & Zappos

The Knowledge Project Podcast

Listed as one of the great companies founded during the 'internet revolution' around 1999 that investors would have missed if they avoided investing during the bubble.

Naval Ravikant and Nick Kokonas — The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss

Marc Benioff | All-In Summit 2024

All-In Podcast

An online platform for restaurant reservations, used as an example of how AI agents can interact with external tools and resolve customer issues.

How to Live a Life You Won’t Regret at 80 - Bill Gurley

Chris Williamson

The host was involved with OpenTable, which led him to meet Danny Meyer, a renowned restaurateur.

Nick Ganju Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

Tim Ferriss

A reservation software for restaurants, used as an analogy for Zocdoc's functionality.

Bryan Johnson Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

Tim Ferriss

Online restaurant reservation service whose co-founder, Chuck Templeton, became Bryan Johnson's sole advisor for Braintree, and whose need for credit card data storage helped Braintree pivot to a software company.

Olga Vidisheva Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015

Y Combinator

A company that the investors in Shop Tiques had previously invested in, noted for its success in the marketplace model.

If you have career regrets in 2026, watch this.

My First Million

A restaurant reservation platform where the speaker and Danny Meyer served on the board together about 20 years ago.