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Stephen Stuut

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
315 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

You know, there is one that I got off of the iTunes website, but it's called McKinsey of the, you know, some sort of, you just type in McKinsey, you'll find a book and it'll describe this in there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

I've got the internal information.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

It was just very valuable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So they can just search McKinsey book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Number two, is there a CEO you're following or studying currently?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Well, interestingly, the last company I managed is a portfolio company of Liberty Media, and that is John Malone's company run now by Greg Maffei.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

And one thing I liked about the way they go about things, they take a calculated risk and they go straight down the middle of the fairway in terms of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

We're going to go buy, in this case, what they did recently is buy Formula One.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

They're not like hiding in the bushes or anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

And they go straight for it, say this is how we're going to make it worth something more than what we paid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So I like that kind of approach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Having said that, you know, you've got the Steve Jobs, which is let's create a market dislocation and do it very covertly until no one can respond very quickly because we got there first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

So I like both approaches, to be honest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Number three, is there a favorite online tool you have, like Acuity Scheduling?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Well, I, you know, I'm sorry, I'm an old school guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

I'm using Outlook on a Mac.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Stephen, come on.