Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) — portfolio autopsies

Jessica Alba's natural baby products company that created a market only to watch everyone enter it

Luxury travel subscription company that went public via SPAC at 1.1 billion dollars and watched its stock collapse 95 percent as subscribers refused to pay high membership fees for limited supply.

Hipmunk built a better flight search and was acquired by Concur — then SAP decided a beloved flight search app was not part of its enterprise travel platform strategy

The BI unicorn that spent $800M to build a category already owned by Tableau and Salesforce.

FarmVille creator — $10B IPO, Facebook algorithm change destroyed it overnight

Jessica Alba's 'honest' baby products brand IPO'd at $1.5B and lost 80% of its value in 18 months

Europe's most valuable startup lost 85% of its valuation in 13 months as interest rates ended the BNPL party

Europe's most valuable fintech lost 85% of its $45.6B valuation in a single down round — the largest VC devaluation in history

The flash sale home décor unicorn that Bed Bath & Beyond bought for less than its last funding round

The fastest-growing HR software startup in history — until it was exposed for letting employees sell insurance without licenses, triggering a $4.5B valuation collapse.

The FarmVille empire — built on Facebook, destroyed when Facebook changed its newsfeed algorithm.

Andy Rubin's pre-Android startup — built the iconic T-Mobile Sidekick, sold to Microsoft for $500M, and watched its work become the Microsoft Kin: a phone discontinued 48 days after launch