Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
4 of 4 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 2 Apr 2020 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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David Friedberg
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15 Mar 2020 – 15 Mar 2020
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Gavin Baker
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2 Apr 2020 – 2 Apr 2020
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Bill Gurley
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23 Apr 2024 – 23 Apr 2024
+1482 d
- JD Vance 3 thin 24 Aug 2026 – 25 Aug 2026 +2335 d
The chronologysourced and dated, oldest first
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“48% of all US employees work for a business that's got 10 or fewer employees. Now, these businesses are not only retail.”
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Gavin Baker
Baker recounts how a dentist cut her software bill in half in one hour by threatening to switch vendors.
“He said, tell Gavin exactly what you just told me. And his sister is a dentist and obviously she's grappling with how to run her practice.”
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Gavin Baker
Baker recounts a dentist cutting her software bill in half in one hour with zero pushback.
“In one hour, she cut her software bill in half. One hour, she said there was zero pushback. And I've been telling people this story.”
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Gavin Baker
Baker reports small businesses are cutting software bills 30-50% in an hour by simply asking vendors.
“In the last two days, lots of friends have come to me and said, Hey, I told my brother, my sister, my mom, my dad, my uncle, my aunt, my friend who has a small business, that story, they did the same thing and they cut their software bill 30 to 50% in an hour.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley argues venture capital patterns decay, citing how Intuit bias caused VCs to miss Shopify.
“I think the patterns have a half life and they decay. Or I saw Toby from Shopify was talking about the VCs passing on them.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley admits pattern recognition led VCs to miss HubSpot, Shopify, and Twilio due to anti-small-business bias from Intuit precedent.
“And so you develop this anti small business mindset, which keeps you out of HubSpot and Shopify and Twilio. Then miss massive amounts.”
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JD Vance
Vance describes direct SBA support for small businesses facing federal contracting issues to compete with larger firms.
“If you run into issues with federal contracting, they can work directly with Kelly's team at the Small Business Administration so they can go toe to toe with their bigger peers.”
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JD Vance
Vance outlines three criteria the Trump administration wants companies to meet: buy, hire, and invest American.
“We want companies that buy American, that hire American, and that invest in American communities.”
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JD Vance
Vance says the administration supports businesses that build domestically and invest in workers.
“That if you're a business that's building in your backyard, if you're investing in your workers and trying to make a great American product, then we are on your side because you are on the side of American workers and American patriots.”
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Where they overlapsame programme, same subject
- Invest Like the Best also carries Bill Gurley and Gavin Baker on this subject, at different times.