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Harry Stebbings

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek,…

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20VC: The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses | Why Founders Should Never Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed | Why Triple, Triple, Double, Double is Good Enough

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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20VC: Airtable Sold for $1.285BN | Leo Achenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B | Anthropic Model Breaches Three Companies' Security | Big Tech Earnings: Why Palantir Beat The Rest

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20VC: 70% of Neolabs Will Die | There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model | Data is a Trillion $ Market | Governments Cannot Regulate Models: It is Too Late | The Cyber Attacks to Come Will be Insane with Anastasios Angelopoulos @ Arena

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 04m
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20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20VC: Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Travis Kalanick Raises $1.7B for Atoms | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks | Francisco Partners Raises $21BN | Etched Raises $300M to Take on Nvidia

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 17m
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20VC: Leading Anthropic's First Ever Round | Will Open Source Threaten Anthropic's Business | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Why Triple, Triple, Double, Double is Not Good Enough Today | Why Series A is Hard Today with Matt Murphy @ Menlo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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20VC: Mercor CPO on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs | Why Large Enterprise is Scared to Partner with Frontier Labs | Why Small Specialised Models is the Future with Osvald Nitski

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Threatened by Kimi? | Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | Should Openrouter Sell & Value in the Routing Layer? | Stripe Buying Paypal: What You Need to Know

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 23m
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20VC: Are OpenAI and Anthropic Overvalued? The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10x And Usage Will Explode 100x | The Future Is Not One AGI; It's Millions of Specialised Models with Lin Qiao, Founder and CEO @ Fireworks

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 17m
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20VC: $5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred Turner

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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20VC: Apple Sues OpenAI | Zuckerberg Back on X and Challenging Codex and Claude Code | SK Hynix's $26BN IPO | Is Seed Investing Dead: Jason Calacanis Departs Seed for Growth | Greylock Raises New $1.5BN Fund

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 22m
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20VC: Wix's Founder on What Wall St Gets Wrong About AI and Wix | Will Base44 Win the Vibe Coding Wars | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding | The Buyback Disaster: Lessons Learned with Avishai Abrahami

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 57m
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20VC: Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Teams Will Get Bigger Not Smaller in a World of AI | Why AI Removes Incumbents Advantage of Bundling | China vs America: Who Wins the AI War with Arvind Jain, Co-Founder @ Glean

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 54m
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20VC: Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI: Fool or Genius? | Alex Karp Sounds the Alarm: Enterprises Fear Frontier Models & Questionable ROI of AI | The Rise of Chinese Open Source: Deepseek Building Own Chips

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 23m
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20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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20VC: Dario and Anthropic Declare War on Open-Source | Coinbase Slash AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40BN Valuation and Impending IPO | Bending Spoons: Smartest IPO of 2026 and the Year for SaaS Roll-Ups

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 17m
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20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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20VC: How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong | Why 1-1s are BS and What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Equity | Why Taste Beats AI But How AI Kills Org Charts with Paul Erlanger, CEO @ fomo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 57m
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20VC: Deepseek Raises $50BN | Wall St's $725BN AI Question | The Rise of Open Source & How it Threatens OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds it's Own Chip: Jalapeno | The Death of Moats & The New AI Software Winners

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 24m
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20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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20VC: Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud | Why Revenge and Patriotism are the Best Founder Traits | Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask | The Wild Story of Raising $1BN from Masa Son in an Hour Long Meeting with Ryan Peterson, Founder @ Flexport

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 18m
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20VC: SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN | Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix and Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN and The Case for Sovereign Models | Fin Acquired by Salesforce for $3.6BN

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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20VC: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta | How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China | Power is the Bottleneck to AI | Why Dario Has Done a Disservice to AI with his Labour Replacement Messaging with Aravind Srinivas, Founder @ Perplexity

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 20m
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20VC: Who Wins the Model War: OpenAI, Anthropic or Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning | Labour Displacement Fears are BS & Overblown | From Physicist to Sequoia Founder with Matan Grinberg, Founder @ Factory

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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20VC: SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR | Lovable Hits $500M ARR | Founders Revolt Against VCs: The Fundraising Horror Stories Going Viral

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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20VC: Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | The Real Impact of Open Source on OpenAI & Anthropic | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute | Could Nebius Sell 10x More Compute If They Had It & more with Roman Chernin

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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20Product: Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO @ Legora

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 54m
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20VC: Anthropic Files to Go Public | Token Budgeting Panic Hits Corporate America | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | Apollo Warns PE Software Returns Will be Disastrous | The 9-9-6 Work Ethic: Performative Theatre or Startup Reality?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 34m
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20VC: Mercor CEO on Why Application Layer Companies Have No Defensibility, The Model is the Product | Token Spend Will Exceed Headcount Spend in 5 Years | The True Cost of Hiring AI Researchers in the Valley Today with Brendan Foody

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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20VC: Corgi Insurance: The Most Intense Workplace Culture in America: 7 Days Per Week, Founder Sleeps in Office, Corgi Cafe Open 24 Hours a Day, 60% of First 30 Employees Have Corgi Tattoos | The Journey from $0 to $2.6BN Valuation in Just 2 Years

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 53m
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20VC: OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | NVIDIA's $81BN Revenue Quarter | Cloudflare and ClickUp Do Controversial Layoffs | Exa, OpenRouter and Polsia Raise Mega Rounds | Uber and Microsoft Declare AI ROI for Developers is Questionable

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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20VC: Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs and Memory | We are Not in an Infra Bubble & Dario Got a Bad Deal with Elon for Compute | Should US Companies Sell to China & Why Most Layoffs are AI Washed with Andrew Feldman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 01m
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20Sales: The $100M CRO Bubble: Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis | Why You Should Never Hire From Salesforce or Service Now | How to Hire, Train and Forecase in a World of AI with Chad Peets and Chris Degnan

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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20VC: Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic & Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1: What it Means for IPOs | Why Mass Layoffs Are More Worrying Than Anyone Sees

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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20VC: Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio | The One Man Accelerator at The Four Seasons | Why VCs Can Be Sharks and What Founders Need to Know | Why Stocks and Cash are BS and You Should Invest in Land with Josh Browder

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 29m
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20VC: Lessons from Jensen Huang on "Founder Mode" | How to Know if OpenAI or Anthropic Will Kill your Company | How USV Liking Music Made Them $1BN on an Investment | The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao @ Abridge

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 04m
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20VC: Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO: The Breakdown | Ramp's $40BN Latest Valuation | Hubspot Tanks, Monday Rockets: WTF is Happening in Public Markets

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 18m
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20VC: Inside Legora: $100M ARR in 18 Months | Jude Law Generated $50M in Sales Pipeline: The Economics Broken Down | Competing Against Harvey, the 800 Pound Gorilla | Why Legora is Undervalued at $5.5BN with Patrick Forquer, CRO @ Legora

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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20VC: What I Learned from 100 of the Best CEOs in the World | What I Learned from Staying with Mr Beast for 3 Weeks | How We Will Spend More on Tokens than Salaries with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 46m
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20VC: Mag7 Earnings: Google & Amazon Win - Meta and Microsoft Falter | Anthropic's $50BN Raise & What it Means for a Potential IPO | Atlassian, Twilio and Five9 Beat: The SaaS Apocalypse Over? | Sierra's $15B Valuation: Peak or Potential

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 31m
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20VC: Shopify's Tobi Lütke on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & What Will Labour Markets Be in the Future | Why We Need More Scrutiny on Charitable Giving, Governments are Bad at What They Do and Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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20VC: Inside Clay's Sales Playbook Scaling to $100M ARR | How to Set Sales Comp Plans | How to Read Sales Talent Linkedin Profiles | What Profiles to Hire & Fire | How to Increase Performance and Speed in Sales Teams with Becca Lindquist

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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20VC: Anthropic Raises $45BN but Falls Short on Compute | OpenAI Crushes with GPT5.5 and Codex: Back in the Game? | China Blocks Manus $2BN Deal to Meta | Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors | Why Google is a Bigger Buy Than Ever Before

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 20m
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20Product: Replit CEO on Why Coding Models Are Plateauing | Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified: Will Incumbents Be Replaced? | Why IDEs Are Dead and Do PMs Survive the Next 3-5 Years with Amjad Masad

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 46m
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20VC: Cursor Acquired for $60BN by xAI | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets | Did Anthropic Just Kill Figma, Adobe and Canva | Rippling Hits $1BN in ARR | Salesforce Goes Headless: Smart or Stupid | Cerebras IPO 2.0

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 40m
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20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 53m
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20VC: Jake Paul on Why Traditional VC is Toast and Attention is More Valuable Than Cash | Politics: Will Jake Paul Actually Run for President? | Inside the Payday of Fighting Anthony Joshua and Mike Tyson | with Geoffrey Wu, Co-Founder at Anti-Fund

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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20VC: Anthropic Unveils Mythos | SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TRN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race | Jason's Critique of Dario Amodei & How OpenAI Could Win the Enterprise Game

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 26m
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20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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20Sales: ElevenLabs: Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota | How to Structure Sales Compensation Plans | Customer Success: 'Total BS' or Growth Engine? | Building an AI Sales Machine: What Tools & Tactics Must CROs Adopt Today with Carles Reina

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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20VC: Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI Revenue | OpenAI Acquisition of TBPN: Analysed | OpenAI Management Team Reboot | YC Kicks Delve Out | Mercor Hack and Why Now is the Time for Cyber | Supabase Raising at $10BN & Doug Leone Returns to Sequoia

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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20VC: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution | Why LLMs Will Not Commoditise & We Have Not Hit Scaling Laws | Bottlenecks in AI & The Energy Crisis Caused By AI | Whether AI Will Do More to Harm or Help Inequality

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 35m
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20VC: Hims & Hers: $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue: The Comeback | Why Being Public is 10x Better | The Death of the "Strategy" Hire | Why Performance Marketing is Worse than Brand Marketing with Andrew Dudum

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 59m
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20VC: Anthropic's $6BN Revenue Month | OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN | Manus Founders Trapped in China & The Billionaire Tax: Anyone Left in California?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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20VC: Marc Andreessen on The Future of Venture Capital: Will a16z Go Public | Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong | Why Introspection is Dangerous | Why "Diamonds in the Rough" is BS in VC | Why a16z Invested $300M into Adam Neumann

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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20VC: The Venture Model is Broken | You Need to be Greedy and Selfish to Win Early Stage Investing | Why Margins Do Not Matter for Early-Stage Startups | The Growth Rate that is Required in a World of AI with Gili Raanan, Founder @ Cyberstarts

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 52m
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20VC: Why You Need a $1BN Fund To Do Series A Today | OpenAI vs Anthropic: Who Wins Enterprise | SpaceX at $2TRN and Data Centers in Space | The $20BN Groq Deal Broken Down | Jeff Bezos' $100BN New Fund

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 18m
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20VC: Inside Anduril's $20BN Army Contract & Why Anduril Must Go Public | Why 99% of Drone Companies Will Die | Why There is Never an Ethical Question of How Anduril Products are Used with Matthew Steckman, President @ Anduril

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 53m
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20Sales: Inside Figma's $1BN ARR Revenue Machine | Why We Do Not Have Customer Success or SDRs | Why I Do Not Believe in Sales Quotas with Shaunt Voskanian, CRO @ Figma

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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20VC: The Return of Travis Kalanick: Uber Would Be $1TRN Today With Him | NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC | Anduril Lands $20BN Army Contract | Adobe CEO Shock Exit: The Dominos Falling

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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20VC: The 8 Moats of Enduring Software Companies: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI | Why Dropouts are "AI Maxing" the World & Remote Early-Stage Companies are Dying with Gokul Rajaram

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 18m
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20Growth: Inside Lovable's $400M ARR Growth Machine | How Lovable Does Product Launches | How Lovable Hacks Social To Make Posts Go Viral | How Lovable Makes Every Employee a Brand with Elena Verna

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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20VC: Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins | The Ultimate Stock Picks: What to Buy | The Data Centre Arms Race: Is the Capex War Stalling | The Era of Public Company Deceleration is Dead

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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20VC: Inside Accel's $4BN Growth Investing Machine | Cursor is Dead is Total BS: Here is Why | What Missing Rippling and ElevenLabs Taught Us | Are $2BN-$10BN IPOs Dead | Why Now is a Great Time to be Thoma Bravo with Miles Clements

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20VC: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is BS | Why China Will Win the AI War | Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist and are Tourists | Why Stock-Based Comp is the Hidden Sin of the Valley with Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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20VC: Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR | Block's 40% Headcount Reduction: AI or Overhiring

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 23m
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20VC: Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Will Systems of Record Become Valueless Databases in an Agentic World | Will LLMs Own the Value in the Application Layer with Eran Zinman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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20VC: Why Cursor is Dead | An AI Tsunami is Coming & You Need to Prepare | Systems of Record Become Valueless Databases with Agents | Is This The End of Tech Private Equity with Jerry Murdock, Co-Founder of Insight Partners

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 01m
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20VC: Anthropic Wipes Billions Off Markets | Citrini Research: The Ultimate Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend etc. | Figma Earnings Beat & Four Public Stocks to Buy | Jack Altman Joins Benchmark

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 20m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: Inside Coatue's $70BN Machine: Why Price Matters Least | Why Mega Markets are the Most Important | How to Assess Durability of Revenue and Margins in AI with Lucas Swisher

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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Buzzing rating76%

20VC: Codex vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Who Wins, Who Loses | Will All Coding Be Automated - Do We Need PMs | The Real Bottleneck to AGI | The Three Phases of Agents and What You Need to Know with Alex Embiricos, Head of Codex at OpenAI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20VC: Anthropic Raises $30BN at $380BN Valuation | Thrive Raises New $10BN Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe Raises at $140BN: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? | Monday, Figma, Shopify: Which are Buys vs Sells?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 34m
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Buzzing rating77%

20VC: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World | What Revenue Multiple Will Software Companies Trade At? | From 7,000 to 3,000: We Need Less People Than Ever with Sebastian Siemiatkowski

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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Buzzing rating77%

20Sales: Inside ElevenLabs $330M ARR Sales Machine | The 20x Sales Comp Plan Reps Must Hit | How to Land and Expand in a World of AI | Why Product-Market-Fit is BS, Reps Should Not Be in the Office and Outbound is King with Carles Reina

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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20VC: Anthropic's Superbowl Ad: Who Won - Who Lost | Harvey Raises $200M at $11BN Valuation | Sierra Hits $150M in ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 24m
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20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 54m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: SpaceX Completes Acquisition of xAI | The 2026 SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse | Microsoft's $360 Billion Market Cap Loss | NVIDIA's $100BN Investment Dispute with OpenAI | Waymo Raises $16 Billion at a $110 Billion Valuation

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 34m
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20VC: 50% of Funds Will Go Out of Business | Why Growth Expectations Today are BS and Will Not Last | Why Oren Zeev Takes $0 Management Fees But 30% Carry | Why GPs Should Not Tell LPs Their Strategy

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 01m
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20VC: Brex Acquired for $5.15BN | a16z Companies are 2/3 AI Revenues | Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket | OpenEvidence Raises at $12BN Valuation | The IPO Market: EquipmentShare, Wealthfront and Ethos Insurance

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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20VC: From Only OpenAI to Die-Hard Anthropic: The Downfall of OpenAI in Enterprise | Harvey vs Legora: Legal AI is a Winner Take All | $7M ARR in a Single Day and Raising $200M Across 3 Rounds with No Deck with Max Junestrand, CEO @ Legora

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 42m
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20VC: Sam Altman vs Elon Musk: The $100BN Battle | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Market Pricing Today? | ClickHouse and Replit's New Rounds: Analysed

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 18m
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20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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Buzzing rating76%

20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 45m
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Buzzing rating74%

20VC: Anthropic's $10BN Fundraise: Have They Beaten Cursor Already | a16z's $15BN Fundraise: Is the Middle Dead in VC Today? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero and ElevenLabs at $11BN: Buy or Not?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 28m
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20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 17m
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20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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Buzzing rating70%

20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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Buzzing rating72%

20VC: Groq's $20BN NVIDIA Acquisition | Manus Acquired by Meta for $2BN | Why Sam Altman Does Not Care About Dilution | Navan Trading at 4x ARR & Why Going Public Does Not Make Sense Anymore | The Rise of Invisible Unemployment and Labour Markets in 2026

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 23m
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20VC: $0-$260M in Revenue in Three Years: How We Did It | You Need to Work Weekends to Win — Most Founders Aren't Ambitious Enough | The Revolut Playbook: Speed, Urgency, Extreme Ownership, and Zero Excuses with Alan Chang @ Fuse Energy

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 56m
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20VC: Enterprises Will Not Adopt AI without Forward-Deployed Engineers | Who Wins the Data Labelling Race: How Does it Shake Out? | How Synthetic Data Threatens the Future of Human-Generated Data with Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 23m
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20VC's Big Fat Quiz of the Year: Founder, Fund and Breakout Company of 2025 | Predictions for 2026: The Company to Buy, The Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win 2026 and The Tailwinds NVIDIA Will Face

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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Buzzing rating73%

20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 56m
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20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 22m
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20VC: a16z's David George on How $BN Funds Can 5×, Do Margins & Revenue Matter in AI & the Most Controversial Bet at a16z

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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Buzzing rating71%

20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 16m
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20VC OGs: SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price | Airwallex Raises $330M and The Battle with Keith Rabois | Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers | IPO Market Predictions for 2026: Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks and SpaceX

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 31m
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20VC: Kalshi's $1BN Raise, the Polymarket Feud, and the Battle to Replace Traditional Media

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 47m
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20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 05m
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20VC: Thrive & OpenAI Partnership | Eventbrite Acquired for $500M | Databricks Raising $5BN at $134BN Valuation: Cheap or Not? | Why SaaS is Like Japan and The TAM Trap in Software

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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20VC: Scale, Surge, Turing, Mercor: Who Wins & Who Loses in Data Labelling | Is Revenue in Data Labelling Real or GMV? | Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Go and What Happens Then? | Why SaaS is Dead in a World of AI with Jonathan Siddharth @ Turing

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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Buzzing rating72%

20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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20VC: Anthropic Raises $30BN from Microsoft and NVIDIA | NVIDIA Core Business Threatened by TPU | Sam Altman's "War Mode" Analysed | Sierra Hits $100M ARR: Justifies $10BN Price? | Lovable Hits $200M ARR & Rumoured $6BN Round

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 30m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: Base44's Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS and Salesforce | Why it is BS that Vibe Coding Platforms Do Not Have Defensibility and Bad Margins | Why He Worries About Google, Not Replit and Lovable | Why Long Anthropic, Not OpenAI?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 11m
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20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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20VC: Cursor Raises $2.3BN: Who Wins the Coding War | Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: Analysed | Why Venture Capital Will Hit $1TRN and the Opening of Retail | Why Stripe and the Best Companies Will Never Go Public

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 22m
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20VC: Andrew NG on The Biggest Bottlenecks in AI | How LLMs Can Be Used as a Geopolitical Weapon | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI? | Is Defensibility Dead in a World of AI? | Will AI Deliver Masa Son's Predictions of 5% GDP Growth?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 11m
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20VC: Sequoia's Leadership Transition | Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir | Gamma Raises $100M at $2BN | Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI | Datadog Surges as Duolingo Plummets: What is Happening

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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Buzzing rating73%

20VC: Benchmark's Newest General Partner Ev Randle on Why Margins Matter Less in AI | Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns | OpenAI vs Anthropic: What Happens and Who Wins Coding | Investing Lessons from Peter Thiel and Mamoon Hamid

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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Buzzing rating75%

20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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Buzzing rating76%

20VC: Navan IPO: Winners, Losers and is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC Today | Harvey Raises $150M at $8BN Price | Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell | Meta Down 10%, Is Zuck Struggling?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 16m
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20VC: Cohere's Chief AI Officer on Why Scaling Laws Will Continue | Whether You Can Buy Success in AI with Talent Acquisitions | The Future of Synthetic Data & What It Means for Models | Why AI Coding is Akin to Image Generation in 2015 with Joelle Pineau

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 57m
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20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 31m
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Buzzing rating73%

20VC: a16z Raises $10BN in New Funds | Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation | OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses | Why IRR is a BS Metric and Three Ways to Win in VC Today

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 24m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? | The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses | How to Analyse Margins and Growth Rates in a World of AI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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Buzzing rating75%

20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 16m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: Why VC Today is Worse Than 2021 | Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad Investment Today | Why We Are Deluding Ourselves on Growth Expectations | Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation | Benchmark Adds Their Newest General Partner

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 28m
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Buzzing rating72%

20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation | Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On | Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky | Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions: What Works & What Doesn't

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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Scout rating65%

20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder | Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M | Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with Mike Cannon-Brookes

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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20VC: OpenAI's Multi $BN Deal with AMD | Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds | Does King Making Really Work in Venture Capital: Harvey vs Legora | Chamath is Back: The SPAC is Back

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 24m
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20VC: Cerebras CEO on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO | NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Worried About Growth | Concentration of Value in Mag7: Will the AI Train Come to a Halt | Can the US Supply the Energy for AI with Andrew Feldman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 04m
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Buzzing rating70%

20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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Scout rating56%

20VC: Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World | Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy | Klarna, Figma, Stubhub, all Down: Are Public Markets Turning? | FiveTran and DBT: Is the Wave of Consolidation About to Begin?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 16m
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Scout rating66%

20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips | NVIDIA Will Be Worth $10TRN | How to Solve the Energy Required for AI... Nuclear | Why China is Behind the US in the Race for AGI with Jonathan Ross, Groq Founder

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 54m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead | Navan Files to go Public & Notion Hits $500M ARR | The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 59m
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Buzzing rating75%

20VC: Opendoor's CEO on The Greatest Turnaround in Tech | OpenAI and Oracle: How Can Either Afford to Do This | How Anthropic Could Lose 50% of Their Revenue Overnight | Replit Raises at $3BN | Figure, Gemini & VIA IPOs Broken Down

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 24m
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Scout rating66%

20VC: Mercor: From $1M to $500M in 17 Months: The Fastest Growing Company in the World | How to Think About Margins and Revenue Sustainability in AI | Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are BS Today with Brendan Foody

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 01m
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20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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20VC: Musk's $TRN Pay Package Broken Down | Ramp Hits $1BN ARR and Brex Hits $700M: Who Wins | OpenAI's $10BN Secondary Sale | Atlassian Buys The Browser Company for $610M | ASML Lead Roun into Mistral at $14BN Valuation

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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Buzzing rating77%

20VC: ElevenLabs Hits $200M ARR: The Untold Story of Europe's Fastest Growing AI Startup | The Real Cost of AI from Talent to Data Centres | How US VCs are in a Different League to Europeans | The Future of Foundation Models with Mati Staniszewski

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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20VC: Anthropic Raises $13BN | Why Canva Will Not Direct List | OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock | Lovable Raising at $4BN + Vercel at $9BN: Justified or Not | Quarterly Results from SNOW, Mongo, ZOOM and more

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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20VC: Cohere Founder on How Cohere Compete with OpenAI and Anthropic $BNs | Why Counties Should Fund Their Own Models & the Need for Model Sovereignty | How Sam Altman Has Done a Disservice to AI with Nick Frosst

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 07m
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Buzzing rating72%

20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 53m
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20VC: Anthropic's $10BN Round | Klarna's IPO Broken Down | Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine | Martin Casado: Is Consensus Investing the Only Game | Why Satya is Chatting S*** on SaaS Apps Disappearing featuring Marc Benioff

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 11m
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20VC: Do Margins Matter in AI? | Is Defensibility Gone For Good? | Is Vertical SaaS Dead in a World of AI | What SaaS Rules Are BS and No Longer Apply in a World of AI | The Future of Venture: Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS with Byron Deeter

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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Scout rating60%

20VC: Databricks at $100BN | Chamath's SPAC Revival: Peak Mania? | OpenAI Staff Cash Out Billions & Sam Altman Will Spend Trillions | CoreWeave's $11B Debt Bet & Nubank's $2.5B Profit Shocker

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 20m
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20VC: GPT5: Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift To Anthropic | Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings | Monday & Datadog Perform But Hit Hard by Wall St | Should Perplexity Buy Chrome for $34.5BN |

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 22m
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Scout rating65%

20VC: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index's Decacorn Factory | Decision-Making, Investment Process, Biggest Lessons, Biggest Misses | Why Gross Margin is a Fallacy at Seed | Never Turn Down a Deal on Price with Martin Mignot, Partner @ Index Ventures

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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20VC: Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever | Meta and Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down | Cognition Raises at $15BN and Ramp at $22BN | CRV Downsizing and What It Means for LPs and GPs

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 20m
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20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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20VC: Inside Carnegie Mellon's $4BN Endowment | Why 90% of LPs Shouldn't Invest in VC | The $140BN Problem with Multi-Stage Funds | The Hidden Math Behind DPI, TVPI, and Illiquidity with Miles Dieffenbach

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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Buzzing rating73%

20VC: Benchmark Loses Another Partner | Elad Gil Raises a Monster $1.5BN Solo GP Fund | Why Apple Need a Management Overhaul | Why Google is the Best Performing Hyperscaler | Will Cursor Hit $4BN ARR & Lovable $400M ARR by EOY 2026?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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20VC: a16z's Martin Casado on Anthropic vs OpenAI: Where Value Accrues | Cursor vs Replit vs Lovable: Who Wins and Who Loses | The One Sin in AI Investing | Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 07m
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20VC: Lovable Raises at $2BN & Hits $100M ARR | Is Cursor Worth $28BN at $1BN in ARR | How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk | Are Seed Funds F******: Have Mega Funds Won | Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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20VC: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with No Funding: Surge AI | The Most Insane Scaling Story in Tech |

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale | Did Google Overlook a Goldmine in the Core Asset and Did Founders Leave a Sinking Ship | How Cursor and Cognition Deal with Ever Increasing Reliance on Anthropic

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 48m
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20VC: Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not | Lovable vs Replit: Will These Be $100BN Businesses | Why Elon Could Beat Sam Altman with the New Grok | Why Every S&P 500 Company Will Buy Bitcoin?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 21m
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20VC: Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's $85BN Resurgence | Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI | Building Nine Revenue Lines Over $100M | Why Crypto Will Be Robinhood's Biggest Revenue Line | Why Stablecoins Will Replace Banking Rails

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 57m
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Buzzing rating76%

20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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20VC: Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | OpenAI's SBC Bombshell: More Stock Comp Than Revenue | Privat Equity is Back: Olo Bought for $2BN | Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 People: Is This Just the Start | Will Sequoia Part with Shaun Maguire

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 07m
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20VC: Scott Galloway on Are Billionaires Happy & The Impact of Money on Psychology and Self-Worth | Becoming a Better Father & Husband | Why We Should Drink More and Not Work From Home | The Tinder Effect & How it Makes Young Men Radical

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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Buzzing rating73%

20VC: Figma's IPO: The Full Breakdown | Index Returns $3.5BN on Two Deals | Why Melio's $2.5BN Acquisition is "Discouraging" | Asana's New CEO and the Great Founder Exodus | Oracle's $30BN AI Deal and What it Means for Incumbents

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 11m
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Scout rating65%

20VC: Inside KKR's Monster $8BN European Fund | The $500M Turkey Gamble That Went Wrong | Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? | Will AI Kill the PE Model? | Can The PE Model Survive without IPOs and Where is the Liquidity with Philip Freise

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 01m
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Buzzing rating72%

20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 17m
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20VC: Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross Bought with Zuck's $100BN AI Budget | Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens | Why Larry Ellison is the Smartest Man in Tech | Substance or Sizzle: What is Real and What is BS in AI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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20VC: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank | Why My Biggest Mistakes Came From Listening to VCs | Why 100 VCs Turned Us Down | Why European Founders Are Tougher Than US Founders with Johannes Reck, GetYourGuide

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 16m
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20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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20VC: Scale's $14.8BN Acquisition: Is Scale a Dead Man Walking / What Did Meta Buy | Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever | Ramp Hits $16BN Diluting Only 1% | Salesforce, Slack and Dropbox Falling Behind: Are Incumbents Losing Ground

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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20VC: How We Made $800M on Coursera | We Lost Money on Uber and Made Money on Lyft | We Did 3x on Postmates in 18 Months | DPI is King, MOIC is BS | We Dodged Theranos and I Still Lost Millions with Larry Aschebrook @ G Squared

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 34m
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20VC: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink: Elon's Empire After the Firestorm | Are Circle and Coreweave Meme Stocks: IPO Analysis | Anduril Raises $2.6BN & Becomes Founders Fund's 1st and 2nd Largest Check Ever | Cursor Now 20% of SaaS Spend and the SaaS Slowdown

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 16m
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20VC: Fiverr CEO: 'If You're Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You're Done | Why "Time to Copy" is the Most Important Metric in Startups Today | Why 99% of AI Companies Today Will Die | Why Governments Will Take Control of AI with Micha Kauffman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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20VC: Is Chamath Right: Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters | Does OpenAI Even Matter | Mary Meekers AI Report: The Analysis| IPO Breakdown: Chime, Circle & Thoma Bravo's New Fund

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 23m
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20VC: Windsurf Founder on Will Model Companies Own the App Layer | Why Moats Do Not Exist in a World of AI | Why the Notion of Single Person $BN Companies is BS | Lovable vs Bolt & Cursor vs Windsurf: How Does it All End with Varun Mohan

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 05m
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Buzzing rating75%

20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 18m
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Buzzing rating72%

20VC: OpenAI's $6BN Jony Ive Deal | YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart—and Has Officially Won | Builder.ai Implodes and Hinge IPOs: Who Wins & Who Loses | Seed Is Easy. Series A Is Brutal & The Dirty Truth About Late-Stage Venture

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: The Most Insane Story in Startups: Airwallex: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN | The Fund That Pulled a Term Sheet & Lost $1BN | Rejecting Stripe's $1.2BN Offer | Scaling to $1BN in Revenue & 100% YoY Growth for 8 Years with Jack Zhang

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 26m
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20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Chime IPO: The Breakdown | Why Fund Returners Are Not Enough & Seed is for Suckers | Are IPOs Dead & The Future of the Late Stage Private Market | Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 17m
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20VC: Duolingo Co-Founder on Why $3M is Harder than $100M to Raise | Why You Should Always Take Tier 1 VCs Even at Worse Terms | Why Europe Can't Win Unless the US Screws Up | How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education with Severin Hacker

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 31m
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20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 01m
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20VC: Tiger Global Saved by OpenAI | Coatue's New Fund: Hype or Substance | Why SBF is the Greatest Investor of the Last 5 Years | Why Big Funds are Investing in Perplexity

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 14m
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20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund | Why Founders Should Take the Highest Price | Why Serial Entrepreneurs are Better | Why AI Is So Overhyped | The Future of Venture Capital with Immad Akhund

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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20VC: Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win | Windsurf Sells For $3BN | Decagon Raises at 100x ARR | Do Mega Funds Win the Future of VC | What Does Harvard's Losing Their For-Profit Status Mean for VC

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 11m
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20VC Exclusive: Why Mega Platforms Will Win in VC | Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed | Why Market Sizing is BS | Where Will Foundation Models Build/Buy Apps vs Where Will They Not with Bucky Moore

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 05m
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20Sales: Sierra: Inside Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Sales Machine & How to Prospect, Outbound and Close Enterprise Deals in AI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 07m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: Why Fund Returners Are Not Enough Anymore | Why Sequoia Had the Best Strategy at the Worst Time | What it Takes to Be Good at Series A and B Today | Benchmark Leads Manus Round: Should US Funds Invest in Chinese AI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 24m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: VCs are Spreadsheet Monkeys and are Commoditised | Why Fees and Carry Misalign GPs and LPs | Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds | Why We Need European Sovereignty More Than Ever with Taavet Hinrikus

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 58m
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20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 52m
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20VC: OpenAI's $3BN Acquisition of Windsurf: The Breakdown | Are Endowment Funds F******* & How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 | Why Revenue Multiples are BS, The Rise of AI Rollups and Multi-Stage Funds Destroying Seed Investing

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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Buzzing rating78%

20VC: Do Rich Founders Make Better Founders | The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time | Why SPACs Will Come Back | Why Short Sellers Should Be Banned | Is Trump Better for Business than Biden with Jason Wilk @ Dave

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 58m
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20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Why Seed is for Suckers | a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN: What Makes Them So Good | Why Josh Kushner Is the Master of Venture Capital Strategy | Why Extended Private Markets Screw US Citizens with Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 29m
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20VC: Benchmark's Victor Lazarte on Why Portfolio Construction is BS| Why SaaS Spreadsheet Investing is Dead | Why China is a Stabilising Force for the US | Three Traits All the Best Founders Have & The Lie All Big Tech Companies Have Been Telling

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 07m
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Scout rating59%

20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 05m
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Scout rating62%

20VC: How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem | Why We Need to Flood the UK with Venture Capital | What the UK Can Learn From Sequoia, Stripe and Norway | Why Now is the Time to be Bullish on China & Lessons from Jensen Huang with Tom Hulme & Stan Boland

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 24m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Carvana CEO on Buiding a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back | Ernest Garcia: Inside the Mind of the Most Misunderstood CEO in America

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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Scout rating65%

20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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Scout rating69%

20VC: Microsoft CTO on Where Value Accrues in an AI World | Why Scaling Laws are BS | An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese | The Future of Software Development and The Future of Agents with Kevin Scott

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 45m
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Scout rating62%

20VC: Will Revolut and Monzo List in the UK | How Does London Compete Against the US To Win The Best UK IPOs | Are UK Public Companies Punished on Price for Listing in London | The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange with CEO, Julia Hoggett

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 50m
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Scout rating67%

20VC: Why Traditional VC is Broken: How VCs Learned Nothing from 2021 | Why LPs are More Important than Founders & Advice to Emerging Managers | Bull Case for Bytedance & Why TikTok's Ban Doesn't Matter with Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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20VC: The Insane Story of DeliveryHero: Losing $200M on a Gorillas Investment | Winning the Emerging Markets Delivery War with 35 Acquisitions | Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race with Niklas Östberg

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 01m
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Buzzing rating78%

20VC: AI Chip Wars: How Cerebras Plans to Topple NVIDIA's Dominance | Why We Have Not Reached Scaling Laws in AI | What Happens to the Cost of Inference | How We Underestimate China and Shouldn't Sell To Them with Andrew Feldman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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Buzzing rating73%

20VC: Selling Drift for $1.2BN is the Biggest Failure: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company | Why Incumbents Are Slower & Worse Than Ever | Why the Most Valuable Companies in a World of AI Will Not Have More Than 100 People with Elias Torres

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 07m
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Scout rating65%

20VC: The 10 Question Framework a $217BN Manager Uses to Make Investment Decisions | Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvault | The Bull Case for Bytedance | How Anduril Could Be a $200BN Company with Peter Singlehurst

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 11m
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20VC: HubSpot CEO on Where Value Accrues in SaaS AI | How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce | Why B2B Is Not a Winner Take All Market | How to Go From SMB to Enterprise an Win | How SEO Dying Changes HubSpot's Business with Yamini Rangan

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m
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Scout rating61%

20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 49m
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Buzzing rating72%

20VC: Lessons from Investing $2BN and Returning $8BN in Cash | Why Most Venture Partnerships are Broken | We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions | Are The Best Deals Always Expensive and Competitive with Jake Saper @ Emergence Capital

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 28m
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20Sales: Everything You Know About Sales Playbooks is Wrong | How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires | How to Crush Pipeline and Deal Reviews as a Team | How to Structure Sales Teams and Sales Comp Plans with Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 51m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: Lovable on Hitting $17.5M in ARR in 3 Months | Adding $2.1M ARR Every Week | Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention: Better than ChatGPT | The Story of Europe's Fastest Scaling Company with Anton Osika

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 50m
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Scout rating60%

20VC: Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: Where Will Value Be Created in a World of AI | Have Foundation Models Commoditized | When Do Model Providers Become Application Providers | What Anthropic Learned from Deepseek

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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Scout rating60%

20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m
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20VC: The Insane Story of Glovo: Selling 30% of the Company for €100K | The McDonalds Deal That Saved Them | Running out of Money Three Times | Burning $1M Per Day | Being Acquired for $2.2BN with Oscar Pierre, Founder @ Glovo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 07m
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20VC: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | NVIDIA vs AMD: Who Wins and Why | The Future of Inference vs Training | The Economics of Compute & Why To Win You Must Have Product, Data & Compute with Steeve Morin @ ZML

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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20VC Exclusive: Mercor Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation: Scaling to $70M in ARR in 24 Months | 9-9-6: 9AM-9PM - 6 Days Per Week: The Most Intense Culture in Silicon Valley | The Future of Programming, Models and Data with Adarsh Hiremath

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 45m
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Buzzing rating78%

20VC: NVIDIA vs Groq: The Future of Training vs Inference | Meta, Google, and Microsoft's Data Center Investments: Who Wins | Data, Compute, Models: The Core Bottlenecks in AI & Where Value Will Distribute with Jonathan Ross, Founder @ Groq

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 20m
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Scout rating69%

20VC: From Penniless Printing Shop Offices to Public Company and One of the Largest Entertainment Companies: The Story of LADbible | The Future of Content & Social Media | US vs Europe: Is Europe F****** with Solly Solomou

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 59m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Monzo: The Greatest Turnaround in Tech: From £40M Revenues, Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS to $1BN in Revenue, Profitable and 10M Customers with TS Anil, CEO @ Monzo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 56m
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Scout rating58%

20VC: The $5BN Company Built from the Belgian Countryside | The Story of Odoo: The Company with No Plans to Sell, IPO & Their Billionaire Founder Who Does Not Care About Money with Fabien Pinckaers, Founder & CEO @ Odoo

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 15m
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Scout rating66%

20VC: Why Model Providers Will Kill Many Startups Moving into the Application Layer | Why Deepseek is not a Threat to OpenAI & Why OpenAI Beats Anthropic | Apps vs Models vs Infrastructure: Where is Value in AI with Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake CEO

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m
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Scout rating69%

20Product: Product Secrets Behind Uber and Opendoor | How AI Changes the Role of the PM & The Product Development Process | How to Hire the Best Product Teams & What No One Does That Everyone Should Do with Brian Tolkin

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 44m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: Affirm Max Levchin on Why Grading Talent by Letter (A or B) is Total BS | How to Create a Culture of Post Mortems and Writing | Why You Should Only Study Failure Not Success & The Biggest Surprises Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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Buzzing rating76%

20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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Scout rating69%

20VC: Deepseek Special: Is Deepseek a Weapon of the CCP | How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | Why $500BN for Stargate is Not Enough | The Future of Inference, NVIDIA and Foundation Models with Jonathan Ross @ Groq

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m
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Scout rating68%

20Sales: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation & How to Teach Them | Verticalised Sales Playbooks: When and How | How the Best Sales Reps and Leaders Structure Their Time with Carlos Delatorre, CRO @ Harness

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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Scout rating66%

20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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Scout rating62%

20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 17m
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Scout rating55%

20VC: Monday.com: Scaling from $6M to $120M in ARR in 3 Years | How Monday Have Built the Best Performance Marketing Engine in SaaS | Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product; The Biggest Lessons and Mistakes with Eran Zinman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m
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Scout rating67%

20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 11m
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Scout rating67%

20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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Scout rating68%

20VC: The Future of Foundation Models | The Future of AI Consumer Apps and Why OpenAI Did a Disservice to Them | The Future of Music: Spotify vs YouTube & Spotify vs TikTok: What Happens with Mikey Shulman @ Suno

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 57m
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Scout rating66%

20VC: Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets: From $60BN to $400M and Back to $40BN | The Biggest Opportunities, Mistakes and Challenges Ahead for One of the Public Market's Only 100x Investments

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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Scout rating61%

20VC: How To Do a 10x Seed Fund in 2025 | Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups an Founders | Lessons from Losing Billions Missing Airbnb and Pinterest & Investing Lessons from Charlie Munger with Mike Maples @ Floodgate

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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Scout rating67%

20Sales: Rippling's CRO on Why Founders Should Not Create Sales Playbooks | Why Discounting is BS and How to Create Urgency in Deals | The Biggest Lessons on Pricing and How to Win the Pricing Game with Matt Plank

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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Scout rating57%

20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 58m
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20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 58m
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Scout rating64%

20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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20VC: Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff on The Future of LLMs | The Future of Agents | The Future of Labour | Management Lessons from Steve Jobs

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 43m
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20VC: From Unsexy Startup to $1.8BN Acquisition | Why VCs and Founders are Fundamentally Misaligned | Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | Lessons from Josh Kushner and Marc Andreesen | Zac Bookman, OpenGov

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 08m
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20VC: Revolut Founder Nik Storonsky on When and Where Revolut Will IPO & What Revolut Need to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 45m
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch podcast cover art
Buzzing rating75%

20VC: Grindr: The Most Insane Story in Startups | How the Chinese Bought and Lost Grindr | The Successful IPO with $300M Revenues and 40% EBITDA Margins | How Grindr Built a Free Cash Flow Machine

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 56m
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Scout rating69%

20Product: Is an AI Winter Approaching | The Future of AI Software Development: What is Real & What is BS | OpenAI: WTF is Going on & How Far Into Application Layer Do They Go | The Future Role of Software Engineers with Guy Podjarny

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 46m
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20VC: Why Price Sensitivity is BS | Why "Portfolios" are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy | Why the Best Investment Never Happen in "Fundraising Rounds" | What Europe Needs to do to Become a Superpower Again | Klaus Hommels, Lakestar

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 09m
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20VC: Discord's Jason Citron on Why Everything We are Taught About Hiring & Management is BS | Do Richer Founders & Gamer Founders Make Better Founders? | Never Before Told Moments Behind Scaling to 200M Users

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 50m
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20Sales: What I Learned Scaling Datadog from $60M to $1BN in ARR | How to do Outbound in 2024 | Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading with Dan Fougere

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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20VC: Turning $16.5M into $2.1BN; Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History: UiPath | Why VC is Not Being Commoditised | Why Price Does Not Matter | Lessons on Loss Ratio, Selling and Signalling with Cem Sertoglu

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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Buzzing rating72%

20VC Alain De Botton on Why Companies Are Not Families | Why Status is Making You Miserable | Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail | Why We Are Richer Yet More Anxious Than Ever & Why You Should Not Always "Be Yourself"

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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Buzzing rating76%

20Growth: Inside Perplexity's Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | Why Paid Acquisition is a Drug and Brand Marketing is BS | The Good, Bad and Ugly of A/B Tests and Why Micro-Optimisations are Under-Rated with Raman Malik

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 59m
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20VC: Bolt; The Most Insane Story in Startups | Turning a $5K Loan into an $8BN Company | Why Every VC Turned Down One of Europe's Biggest Winners | Competing with Uber & The Future of Micromobility and Self-Driving

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 29m
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Buzzing rating76%

20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 23m
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Scout rating63%

20VC: Sam Altman on The Trajectory of Model Capability Improvements: Will Scaling Laws Continue | Semi-Conductor Supply Chains | What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI and Where is Opportunity

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 39m
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Scout rating66%

20VC: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Founder Mode | Building 8x $100M Revenue Lines | Lessons from Raising $5BN and the Gamestop Saga | The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Wealth Management and Home Ownership

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 52m
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Buzzing rating73%

20VC: Linear's Karri Saarinen How to be Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | How to Fundraise with Leverage | How to Select Investors and How to Give Them Homework in the Raise Process & Growth Lessons from Airbnb and Coinbase

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 47m
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Scout rating59%

20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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Scout rating60%

20VC: The Truth About Multi-Stage Firms; Why Portfolio Services are for VCs not Founders | Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | Why Reserves are Bad for Founders & How Boutique Firms Will Win with Mark Goldberg @ Chemistry

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 56m
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20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Slack from $6M to $1BN in ARR | How to Build a Customer Success Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | The Framework to Hire All Sales Reps: Take-Home Assignments, Hiring Panels and more with AJ Tennant @ Glean

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on Investing Lessons from Leading Rounds in Figma, Slack and Rippling | Lessons Building a Generational Defining Firm with Kleiner Perkins | AI: Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 59m
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20Growth: Revolut's Chief Growth Officer on The Growth Playbook Revolut Used to Scale to $2.2BN in Revenue | How Revolut Launch and Grow Products | Why the Best PMs Don't Need A/B Tests & Why CAC is a BS Metric with Antoine Le Nel

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 56m
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20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 50m
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20VC: Investing Lessons from FC Seeding Uber, Airtable and Coupang | Why Pro Rata is the Original Sin in VC | Why Liquidity Has Died in 2024 | Why LPs are Pissed with VCs | The Hard Truth About Seed Fund Economics with David Frankel @ Founder Collective

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 27m
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20VC: Why Most AI Investments Will Do Worse than the S&P 500 | Why Early Stage VC is F******* | The Danger of Kamala Harris and Why Trump and Vance are Best | Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control with Eoghan McCabe @ Intercom

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 46m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta | How to Play AI in the Public Markets | China & Europe: Is the Future Bleak | The Opportunity for Crossover Funds with Jeff Wang, Managing Partner @ SCGE

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 12m
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Scout rating69%

20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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Buzzing rating75%

20Product: How the Best Teams Do Product Reviews | What Everyone Gets Wrong in Hiring Product Teams | Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue with Maria Angelidou, CPO @ Personio

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 50m
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Buzzing rating76%

20VC: Bret Taylor: The AI Bubble and What Happens Now | How the Cost of Chips and Models Will Change in AI | Will Companies Build Their Own Software | Why Pre-Training is for Morons | Leaderships Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 10m
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20VC: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast: Behind the Scenes at One of the Fastest Growing Companies in History with Donald Tang, Executive Chairman @ SHEIN

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m
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Buzzing rating71%

20Sales: Scaling Hubspot from $3M to $1BN in ARR | How to Hire and Ramp Sales Teams | How to Scale Customer Success Successfully | How and When to Go International and Crush It with Jeetu Mahtani

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 56m
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20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 02m
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20VC: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health: Scaling to $1BN Valuation, 75M Users & Getting 100s of No's From Investors Along the Way with Dmitry Gurski

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 25m
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Scout rating58%

20Growth: The 7 Core Levers to Win at Consumer Subscription: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Packaging, Notifications, Discounts, Paywalls | The Breakdown with Phil Carter

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 19m
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Buzzing rating70%

20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 49m
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Buzzing rating75%

20VC: Index's Shardul Shah on Why Market Size is a Trap | Biggest Lessons on Pricing from Leading Rounds in Wiz & Datadog | Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | How Index Makes Decisions and Why Growth & Early are the Same Investing Style

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 50m
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20Product: What Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Do and Do Not Do To Build Great Products | How to Structure Product Teams For Success | Is Simple Always Better in Product and The Art vs Science of Product Design with Mike Hudack

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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Scout rating61%

20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 06m
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20VC: Tinder Founder Sean Rad on Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | Leadership Lessons Scaling Tinder | The Future of Love, Dating and Social Media | The Secret to Your Relationship with Money and Marriage

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 04m
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Buzzing rating71%

20VC: Why VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today | Why Most VCs are Bankers | Why Big VCs Ruin Startups | Why Incentives in VC are Broken | Why American Dynamism is a Tool for VCs to Raise Money with Nick Chirls, Asylum Ventures

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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20VC: OpenAI's Newest Board Member, Zico Colter on The Biggest Bottlenecks to the Performance of Foundation Models | The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | How to Regulate an AI-Centric World

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 00m
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20Growth: Uber's Expansion Playbook for Scaling from 10 Cities to $10BN in Revenue | How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers | How Uber Solved the Chicken and The Egg Problem in New Markets and What Uber Would Be Like with Travis Still There with Scott Gorlick

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 41m
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20VC: AI Scaling Myths: More Compute is not the Answer | The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today: Data, Algorithms and Compute | The Future of Models: Open vs Closed, Small vs Large with Arvind Narayanan, Professor of Computer Science @ Princeton

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 51m
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20VC: Why the IPO Market is not Closed | Why Revenue Multiples are BS and Founders Need to Change | Advice From Jack Ma, Jamie Dimon and Evan Spiegel | Lessons from Taking Snap & Alibaba Public with Imran Khan

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 04m
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Buzzing rating71%

20Sales: How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine | Why You Have to Hire a CRO Pre-Product | Why Most Sales Reps Do Not Perform | Why Hiring Panels are BS in Interviews | Why Remote Sales Reps Do Not Care About Their Development with Chad Peets

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20VC: Five Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in Fundraising, Hiring and Selling with Aman Narang, CEO @ Toast

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20VC: Chips, Models or Applications; Where is the Value in AI | Is Compute the Answer to All Model Performance Questions | Why Open AI Shelved AGI & Is There Any Value in Models with OpenAI Price Dumping with Aidan, Gomez, Co-Founder @ Cohere

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 58m
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20VC: Capital G's Laela Sturdy on What Stripe, UiPath and Duolingo Taught Me About Company Building and Investing | How to Analyse Valuation, Market Timing, Sizing and Exiting | Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m
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20VC: Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg, Keith Rabois & Tobi Lütke | Why Remote is a Bad Idea for 90% of Companies | The Framework for How Shopify Builds Product Today | What Humans Get Wrong About Marriage and Kids with Kaz Nejatian, COO @ Shopify

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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20VC: Sequoia's Shaun Maguire: Will We See WW3 Shortly | Why DEI is a Cancer for Society | Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil | Why Trump is the Only Hope for Peace in the Middle East | Trump vs Harris: Who Wins & What Happens

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 03m
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Buzzing rating76%

20VC: Why VC is Distorting a Generation of SaaS Companies & With $900M in ARR and a Market Cap of $2.6BN is Lightspeed the Most Misunderstood Public Company with Dax Dasilva, Founder & CEO @ Lightspeed

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 46m
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20VC: How a Angel City Makes $31M per Season | How Sports Teams Can and Should Be Better Businesses | Why Every Sports Team Will Look Like a Media Agency and Founding The Most Valuable Women's Sports Team with Alexis Ohanian

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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Scout rating67%

20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on AI's $600BN Question | Why the Data Centre is the Most Important Asset | Servers, Steel and Power: The Core Pillars Powering the Future of AI

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 1h 13m
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Scout rating69%

20Sales: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | Moving from SMB to Enterprise: How and When | Verticalised Sales Teams: Why They are a Gamechanger and How to Build Them with Ben Fiechtner, CRO @ Clari

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 55m

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