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Harry Stebbings

Harry Stebbings

English podcaster and venture capitalist; creator of The Twenty Minute VC and founder of 20VC fund

Every podcast episode featuring Harry Stebbings that Attunex has found: 1572 interviews and appearances across 30 shows between 2015 and 2026. Most often on The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (1518), The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors (17) and The a16z Show (5). Follow Harry in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. 20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Agents Won't Replace Interfaces | Why Enterprises Won't Trust Chinese Models | Why The Jury Is Still Out On The Benefits of Specialised Models with Mike Cannon-Brookes
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian, the company behind Jira, Confluence, Trello and Loom. Atlassian generated $6.5BN in ARR in 2026, and serves more than 350,000 customers,…

    2026-10-12
  2. 20VC: Atlassian CEO on AI Trust, Interface Design & Why Specialised Models Lag
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    In this fast-moving conversation, Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes pushes back on the biggest myths in enterprise AI. This condensed recap cuts the full 20VC episode down to a quick listen, showing…

    2026-10-12
  3. 20Sales: Inside Ramp's Sales Playbook: How to Build a Sales Machine with Max Freeman, SVP Sales @ Ramp
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Max Freeman is SVP of Sales at Ramp. He joined the company as its first sales hire. By 2025, he was leading more than 300 salespeople, helping build Ramp's sales organisation from the ground up.…

    2026-10-10
  4. 20VC: How Ramp Built a Sales Machine with Max Freeman's Playbook
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    Max Freeman, SVP of Sales at Ramp, breaks down how to turn sales into a repeatable machine—not a guessing game. In this concise summary, Harry Stebbings and Freeman explore the full episode’s biggest…

    2026-10-10
  5. 20VC: Cognition vs Factory: Vinod Khosla Creates a Storm | OpenAI Nears $70B Run Rate: Anthropic Under Threat | ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22B & Salesforce Buys Listen Labs for $2B
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Joinin the trio today we have Dev Ittycheria, CEO @ MongoDB. AGENDA: 04:00 OpenAI Nears $70B Run Rate—Anthropic's Lead Under Threat 12:00 Factory vs Cognition: Silicon Valley's Talent War Turns Ugly…

    2026-10-08
  6. Episode #98: Relevance Runway vs Cash Runway, 20VC Venky Ganesan Episode Breakdown On Seed Being An Option
    The Learning Corner by PrecursorMentioned

    This week Mia and Charles start with Steve Vassallo's argument that founders obsess over cash runway when the clock that actually matters is relevance runway, and that plenty of well funded companies…

    2026-10-08
  7. 20VC Founder: Harry Stebbings – Media, Venture Capital, & What It Actually Costs to Win
    The Gstaad Guy Podcast

    The Gstaad Guy sits down with Harry Stebbings, founder of 20VC and one of the most prolific investors and podcasters in Europe, to explore what separates the people who say they want it from the…

    2026-10-07
  8. 从挖矿转型AI基建:GPU、电力与数据中心
    播客翻译计划AI

    在Bayt播客上收听任何播客的中文翻译音频,并查看双语字幕: 本期我们翻译了《The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch》中 Harry Stebbings 对 Crusoe 联合创始人兼 CEO Chase Lochmiller 的访谈。Chase…

    2026-10-07
  9. 20VC: Is Seed Investing Dead Without a $1BN Fund? | Does Ownership and Price Matter When Companies Can Be $1TRN Exits | Are AI Revenue Numbers Real and What to Watch Out For with Venky Ganesan, Menlo Ventures
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Venky Ganesan is a Partner at Menlo Ventures, whose portfolio includes Anthropic, Lovable, Legora and Higgsfield, alongside earlier hits Uber and Roku. Venky's own investment track record includes…

    2026-10-05
  10. 20VC: Can You Win Venture Without a $1BN Fund? Venky Ganesan on VC’s New Rules
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    Venture capital is getting noisier, pricier, and more winner-take-all — and Venky Ganesan says judgment matters more than ever. In this minutes-long recap of the full 20VC conversation, Harry…

    2026-10-05
  11. 20VC: The Future of Datacentres: What You Need to Know | Why Everyone Gets GPU Depreciation and AI's Energy Costs Wrong | Who Really Makes Money From AI & Why Most Moats Don't Exist with Chase Lochmiller
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Chase Lochmiller is the Co-founder and CEO of Crusoe. Crusoe builds and powers the data centres that companies use to train and run AI. It has raised approximately $6.4 billion in equity, including…

    2026-10-03
  12. 20VC: Instinct Raises $1B at $10B Valuation | AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B | Meta Poaches MongoDB's CEO | Bessemer Raises $5.75B | Oura Pulls IPO & Nubank Eyes $8–12B Monzo Takeover
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 00:00 Highlights: Jack Altman Joins The Trio 05:00 Anthropic's S-1 Leaks: $8B Operating Loss and $518B in Compute Commitments 10:00 Instinct Raises $1B at a $10B Valuation to Take On Meta…

    2026-10-01
  13. 20VC: $1BN ARR in 18 Months; The Untold Story of Higgsfield | Spending $4M Per Month on Models | Why Moats in AI are BS | Scaling a Content Team to 150 People with Alex Mashrabov
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Alex Mashrabov is the Founder and CEO of Higgsfield, the third fastest scaling company to $1BN in ARR behind OpenAI and Anthropic. Reports suggest their latest funding round could place an $8BN…

    2026-09-28
  14. EP188 · Parag 谈搜索补偿、Erina 用实验改进智能体、Roland 构建产品循环 · 09-27 早报
    BestBlogs

    章节时间戳 00:00 开场 01:01 精讲:Parag Agrawal 谈智能体搜索与内容补偿 04:02 精讲:Erina Karati 用实验评估长时程智能体 06:53 精讲:Roland Gavrilescu 谈智能体产品的改进循环 09:51 重点 4–6:Claude 九圈振幅、Skydio 无人机、Perplexity CobbleDB 11:30 重点 7–10:GEPA…

    2026-09-27
  15. 20VC: Five Predictions for a World of Agents | The Ads Business Model Will Die | Biggest Lessons from Working with Elon Musk at Twitter with Parag Agrawal, Parallel
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Parag Agrawal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Parallel, building web search infrastructure for AI agents. Parallel has announced $230M in funding from Sequoia, Khosla, and First Round Capital.…

    2026-09-26
  16. 20VC: Meta's Muse Hits No. 1. ChatGPT Finally Has a Rival | Menlo Sounds the AI Bubble Alarm | Factory Triples Its Valuation to $5 Billion | Keith Rabois vs Airwallex: Who is Right? | Crusoe's $3.9 Billion Round. Is the Data Centre Trade Overheating?
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 04:35 Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Delayed. Cracks in the AI Boom? 10:30 OpenAI Faces $278 Billion Cash Burn. Out of Money by 2028? 12:55 Meta's Muse Hits No. 1. ChatGPT Finally Has a Rival?…

    2026-09-24
  17. The Megyn Kelly Show: Royal Scandal, Harry's Missteps, and Chazz Palminteri's Wisdom
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    Royal fallout and hard-earned Hollywood wisdom collide in this sharp recap of The Megyn Kelly Show. Trimmed from the full-length episode to a minutes-long summary, this version covers Megyn Kelly’s…

    2026-09-24
  18. $100M in Email With No Employees? Neil Isn't Buying It
    Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing TipsMentioned

    Growth Newsletter: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe Need marketing help? Visit: https://www.singlegrain.com/ and https://npdigital.com/Want to recruit great marketers? Find them here:…

    2026-09-23
  19. 20VC: Why AI Cannot Replace Humans in Enterprise | Why Work Processes Not Models Will Be The Most Valuable Asset in AI | Why Europe Has Lost and Building in the US vs EU with Daniel Dines, UiPath
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Daniel Dines is one of the greatest European founders of the last decade. As the Co-Founder of UiPath, he has scaled the business to a market cap high of $ 44BN in 2021, with the company now…

    2026-09-21
  20. 20VC: Daniel Dines on Why Workflows, Not AI Models, Will Win Enterprise
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    The real moat in AI may not be the model at all—it’s the workflow, the exceptions, and the hidden knowledge companies rarely document. In this condensed recap of 20VC, host Harry Stebbings speaks…

    2026-09-21
  21. 20VC: "Anti-Data Centres is a Chinese Psyop" | How Many Planned Data Centers Will Actually Get Built? | Is Energy AI's Biggest Bottleneck? With Thomas Sohmers, Co-Founder @ Positron
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Thomas Sohmers is the co-founder and chairman of Positron AI, building chips to make running AI dramatically cheaper and more energy-efficient. The company recently announced an $875 million Series C…

    2026-09-19
  22. 20VC: Positron AI on the Memory Wall, Data Centers, and Energy Bottlenecks
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    AI’s real choke point may not be compute — it may be energy, memory bandwidth, and the politics of building at scale. In this condensed summary of Harry Stebbings’ 20VC conversation with Thomas…

    2026-09-19
  23. 20VC: Why "Pacing the Frontier" is BS | Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN & Meta Launches Muse | Miro Sells for $1.35BN After a $17.5BN Valuation | Mistral Raises €3BN & Could Sam Bankman-Fried Win His Freedom?
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 03:40 Dario Calls to "Pace the Frontier" 11:30 Why the Fed Will Raid Anthropic if Needed 21:50 Meta Launches Muse to Take On Instinct 28:30 Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN—Would You Invest?…

    2026-09-17
  24. 20VC: How LPs Allocate to Venture in 2026: What They Want, What They Do Not Want | Why Fund Multiple Does Not Matter Without a Timeline | Why Velocity of Cashback is the Most Important Thing with David Morehead, CIO @ Baylor
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    David Morehead is one of the most respected CIOs in the endowment fund world as Chief Investment Officer at Baylor University, overseeing its $2.6BN endowment. Before joining Baylor in 2011, he was a…

    2026-09-14
  25. 20VC: Baylor CIO on How LPs Will Allocate to Venture in 2026
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    What do endowment LPs really want from venture in 2026? In this condensed 20VC episode, Harry Stebbings sits down with David Moorehead, CIO of Baylor University, to break down how university…

    2026-09-14
  26. 20VC: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World: Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots Buying Cybercabs and more with Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder @ Eight Sleep
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 04:30 How Do You Hire Exceptional People in the AI Era? 08:00 What Actually Works in Growth—and Why Can't You Trust Meta's Numbers? 17:00 How to Run Hundreds of Millions in Marketing with…

    2026-09-12
  27. 20VC: Mateo Franceschetti’s AI Predictions for Work, Robotics and Growth
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    AI is about to reshape hiring, marketing, robotics, and even what work means. In this condensed 20VC recap, host Harry Stebbings speaks with Mateo Franceschetti, founder of Eight Sleep, about how the…

    2026-09-12
  28. #717.AI助手:未来的数字入口只剩一两个
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了:The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: The $100 Billion AI Assistant Race: Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | We Spend $75K Per Engineer on AI…

    2026-09-11
  29. 20VC: Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | GPT Astra and Fable 5.1 Accelerate the Model Race | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town & Anthropic Pulls From Descartes Acquisition
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 00:00 Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived 04:05 Instinct and GrokBot Ignite the AI Assistant War 13:32 OpenAI's GPT Astra Redefines What AGI Means 26:00 GPT Astra and Fable 5.1 Accelerate…

    2026-09-10
  30. 20VC: The $100 Billion AI Assistant Race: Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | We Spend $75K Per Engineer on AI Tools | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble & AI Assistants Will Replace Every App on Your Phone with JD, Founder of Town
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Jean-Denis "JD" Grèze is the Co-Founder and CEO of Town, the AI work assistant reportedly in talks to raise funding at a $1BN valuation. Before founding Town, JD spent seven years as CTO of Plaid.…

    2026-09-07
  31. 20VC: Why Town’s AI Assistant Could Win the Agent Network-Effect Race
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    AI assistants may be moving fast, but Jean Denis argues the category is far from a bubble. In this condensed 20VC episode, Harry Stebbings speaks with the former Plaid CTO and Town founder about how…

    2026-09-07
  32. 20VC: How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It | How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Us: What I Learned | The AI Talent War: How Your Hiring Process Needs to Change with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Cliff Weitzman is the co-founder and CEO of Speechify, the world's leading AI voice and text-to-speech platform, used by more than 60 million people globally. Diagnosed with dyslexia as a child,…

    2026-09-05
  33. 20VC: How Speechify Built a Data Center—and the AI Mistake Cliff Weitzman Regrets
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    A blunt look at why owning compute, data, and speed may decide which AI startups survive. In the full-length 20VC conversation, Harry Stebbings speaks with Cliff Weitzman, founder of Speechify, and…

    2026-09-05
  34. #704.AI Agent扩张下的算力需求、复合型公司与投资赢家
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了:The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: NVIDIA Crushes Quarter and Buys Hugging Face | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5BN…

    2026-09-05
  35. 20VC: NVIDIA Crushes Quarter and Buys Hugging Face | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5BN Valuation and The Race for AI Assistants | Cognition Raises at $46BN, Linear $2.5BN and Clay $7BN
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 00:00 Nvidia crushes $96.2B quarter and nears $12.9B Hugging Face deal 13:52 OpenAI cuts off Cursor as the Altman–Musk feud escalates 17:40 OpenAI's 1,000-agent cyberattack triggers an…

    2026-09-03
  36. EP162 · OpenClaw 2.0、应用护城河、ClickHouse · 09-01 早报
    BestBlogs

    章节时间戳 00:00 开场 00:56 精讲:OpenClaw Blog 讲 2.0 如何从个人工作流走向多人协作平台 03:34 精讲:屠龙之术借 Canva、Figma 与美图分析 AI 应用的两种命运 06:20 精讲:20VC 访谈 ClickHouse CEO,讨论智能体数据库的负载与权限 09:14 速览:DeepMind 世界模型、Scala 编程、Flux 工程代理、AQuA…

    2026-09-01
  37. 20VC: The AI Bubble Is Wrong | AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern | Why People Over-Estimate Open Models But Enterprises Still Fear Frontier Models with Aaron Katz, ClickHouse
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Aaron Katz is the Co-Founder and CEO of ClickHouse, the real-time analytics database powering companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and Microsoft. ClickHouse just surpassed $350M in ARR and…

    2026-08-31
  38. EP161 · 持久化 AI 同事、航运纠错闭环、模型主权 · 08-31 早报
    BestBlogs

    章节时间戳 00:00 开场 00:48 精讲:Tara Seshan 谈持久化 AI 同事与人机分工 03:23 精讲:Maersk 团队详解全球航运智能体的可靠运行 06:02 精讲:Factory CTO Eno Reyes 谈开源模型与模型主权 08:34 速览:金融数据堡垒、RAG 噪声、Robotaxi、Flowise、Kiro Crew 11:36…

    2026-08-31
  39. 20VC: ClickHouse CEO Aaron Cass on AI Margins, Revenue Risk, and Open Source
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    AI infrastructure is growing at record speed, but ClickHouse CEO Aaron Cass says the real challenge is whether that revenue will last. In this condensed recap of the full 20VC episode, Harry…

    2026-08-31
  40. Bill Gates Warns on AI Jobs — Two Years, Then Four
    The Daily Canopy: The GroveAI

    The Daily Canopy: The Grove Week ending 2026-08-30 — Every featured conversation linked and timestamped below. Click a show name to go to the full episode, or jump directly to the clip. Featured…

    2026-08-30
  41. 20VC: Is Anthropic's Coding Business Worth $2 Trillion? | Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Why 80–90% of Neo-Labs Die in the Next 18 Months? with Eno Reyes, Co-Founder @ Factory
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Eno Reyes is the co-founder and CTO of Factory, the agent-native software development platform building autonomous "Droids" for enterprise engineering teams. Factory has raised $220 million, most…

    2026-08-29
  42. 20VC: Open-Source Chinese Models, Verifiability, and the End of Frontier Moats
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    When the cheapest model becomes the smartest workflow, enterprise AI economics change fast. In this condensed recap of Harry Stebbings’ 20VC conversation with Eno Reyes, CTO and co-founder of…

    2026-08-29
  43. 20VC: NVIDIA Bonanza: Buys Poolside & Invests in Mercor and Perplexity | Anthropic's $30TRN Revenue Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service, Defence and Robotics are Overinflated
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 00:00 NVIDIA Launches a Three-Deal Blitz Across the AI Stack 04:31 NVIDIA's $12BN Poolside Deal Exposes Frontier AI's Capital Wall 15:39 NVIDIA Moves to Back Mercor at $20BN and Perplexity at…

    2026-08-27
  44. 20VC: Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee: Lessons from Don Valentine, Doug Leone and Alfred Lin | How the SpaceX and Citadel Deals Went Down | What Sequoia Specifically Looks for in Founders with Julien Bek
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Julien Bek is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the most renowned venture firms in the world. At Sequoia, he has partnered with companies including Rillet, Tacto, and Auctor. Before joining…

    2026-08-24
  45. 20VC: Sequoia's Julien Bek on Hunting Founders and Winning in AI
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    What does Sequoia really look for in founders, and how does the firm stay sharp in the AI era? In this condensed recap of the full 20VC episode, Harry Stebbings speaks with Julien Bek about Sequoia’s…

    2026-08-24
  46. 20VC: The AI Bubble Will Burst: Half the Neoclouds Will Die | China: Should We Ban Chip Exports & Be Fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Mag7: Who Dies and Who Thrives: Why Meta is Meh and Microsoft is Mega
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Jerry Murdock is the Co-Founder of Insight Partners, which manages over $90 billion in assets. Jerry personally backed companies including Twitter, Nest and Docker, while Insight's portfolio includes…

    2026-08-22
  47. 20VC: Jerry Murdock on the AI Bubble, Open-Source Threats, and the Next Market Shakeout
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    AI may not be the real risk — complacent credit markets, not model progress, could be what breaks first. In this condensed version of 20VC, Harry Stebbings speaks with Jerry Murdock, founder of…

    2026-08-22
  48. 20VC: SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60BN | Stripe's $8BN OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600BN in Revenue? | Lovable and Higgsfield Raise Mega Rounds
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 04:20 Elon's Deal of the Decade: SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60BN 06:10 Why Cursor Was Surprisingly Cheap at $60BN 07:00 Why Zuckerberg Failed to Buy the AI Prize Elon Secured 12:00 Elon vs Zuck:…

    2026-08-20
  49. 20VC: Uber President on The Untold Uber Stories: Travis, China and Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash to #1 in Food with Andrew MacDonald
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Andrew Macdonald (Mac) is the longest-serving employee at Uber. Today, he is the President and COO. No one on the planet has spent more time mastering ride-sharing than Mac. Uber now does 300M rides…

    2026-08-17
  50. 20VC: Uber President on Autonomy, China & How Distribution Beats DoorDash
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    Uber’s president and COO Andrew Macdonald breaks down how the company evolved from a ride app into a global platform—and why autonomy, AI, and delivery are now central to its future. In this…

    2026-08-17
  51. 20Growth: How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow and Superhuman | Why You Should Do Paid Ads Today and How To Do Them | How to Build the Best Referral Programs and How to Crush UGC with Matt Swulinski
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Matt Swulinski is one of the best growth leaders in AI. He is currently Head of Growth at Viktor, the Accel-backed AI coworker. Previously, he was Head of Growth at Wispr Flow, where he was marketing…

    2026-08-15
  52. 20VC: Matt Swulinski’s $100M Growth Engine Playbook for SaaS and AI
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    SaaS growth, Matt Swulinski argues, works less like B2B software and more like e-commerce—where every dollar, ad, and conversion must prove its value. In this condensed recap of Harry Stebbings’ full…

    2026-08-15
  53. 20VC: Canva Slashes Growth: How Much is it Really Worth | Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean: Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50BN CEO Pay Package | Elon Musk's $55BN Terrafab
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 05:00 Canva's Growth Gets Slashed as AI Costs Explode 20:00 The Great Software Reset: Why 2026 Will Punish AI Hesitancy 29:00 Canva's Valuation Reality Check—and the LP Liquidity Trap 35:00…

    2026-08-13
  54. 20VC: Will OpenRouter Sell for $10BN to Stripe? | Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating America—and What Happens Next | Why Enterprises Are More Fearful of Anthropic and OpenAI Than China | Is the Routing Layer Becoming a Commodity with Alex Atallah
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Alex Atallah is the Founder and CEO @ OpenRouter, the unified interface for LLMs. The company has raised over $153M in funding, with the latest valuation pricing the company at $1.3BN. OpenRouter is…

    2026-08-10
  55. 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

    David Frankel is one of the great seed investors of our time. As the Co-Founder of Founder Collective he has backed the likes of Uber, Coupang, Suno, PillPack, Airtable, Whoop, Shield AI and many…

    2026-08-08
  56. 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
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Special Guest: Nikesh Arora, CEO @ Palo Alto Networks. AGENDA: 04:50 Airtable Sold to Bending Spoons for $1.285B 17:00 Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up as Citadel Buys His $16BN…

    2026-08-06
  57. 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

    Anastasios Angelopoulos is the co-founder and CEO of Arena, the real-world evaluation platform that has become a leading referee of the global AI model race. Arena has raised $250 million, with the…

    2026-08-03
  58. 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

    Joon Sung Park is the Founder and CEO of Simile, the AI simulation company building foundation models of human behaviour; allowing companies to test how real people may think, decide and act before…

    2026-08-01
  59. 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

    AGENDA: 05:00 Jensen's Open-Weights Letter Puts Anthropic on an Island 10:00 OpenAI's Model Targets Hugging Face in a Cyber-Security Scare 18:00 America's Open-Model Push Accelerates as China Looms…

    2026-07-30
  60. 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

    Matt Murphy is a Partner at Menlo Ventures, who just raised $3 billion in fresh capital, its largest pool ever. Matt's portfolio includes Anthropic, Lovable, Legora, OpenRouter, Chai Discovery,…

    2026-07-27
  61. 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

    Osvald Nitski is the Chief Product Officer at Mercor, the AI-training and expert-data marketplace powering frontier-model development. Mercor last raised a $350 million Series C at a $10 billion…

    2026-07-25
  62. 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

    AGENDA: 00:04 China's Kimi and Qwen Put Frontier AI on Notice 00:08 Washington Debates Whether Chinese AI Models Should Be Banned 00:17 Can America Build a Profitable Open-Weight AI Champion? 00:21…

    2026-07-23
  63. Seb Coe | New Formats, Athlete Pay, & The Post-Bolt Era: Rebuilding the Reputation of Athletics (Ep129)
    Business of Sport

    In the week where Josh Kerr smashed the 27 year old mile record, we welcome into the studio the man who broke it 3 times, won multiple Olympic Gold Medals, brought the Olympics to London in 2012, and…

    2026-07-21
  64. 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

    Lin Qiao is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, the leading specialized intelligence and AI inference platform that last week raised $1.5BN at a whopping $17BN valuation. With just 200 people,…

    2026-07-20
  65. 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

    Fred Turner is the Founder and CEO @ Curative, one of the wildest stories in tech. Fred scaled a COVID testing business from $0 to $5BN in revenue and took the team from 7 to 7,000 employees in just…

    2026-07-18
  66. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 – Apple SUES OpenAI: Did They Steal Apple's Biggest Secrets? 05:10 – Is OpenAI's $6BN Hardware Bet Already Dead? 12:50 – Zuckerberg Is Back: Meta Finally Takes On OpenAI 18:05 – The AI…

    2026-07-16
  67. 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

    Avishai Abrahami is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wix, the NASDAQ-listed website creation platform serving millions of businesses worldwide. Today, Wix generates more than $2BN in ARR and has a market…

    2026-07-13
  68. 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

    Arvind Jain is the Founder & CEO of Glean, the enterprise AI leader valued at $7.2 billion after raising more than $770 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins, DST Global, and more. Before…

    2026-07-11
  69. 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

    AGENDA: 05:00 Washington Just Put Frontier AI on a Leash 06:30 Sam Altman's Wild 5% Government Stake Idea 19:00 The AI Funding Bubble: Why Founders No Longer Fear Dilution 28:00 Alex Karp's Brutal…

    2026-07-09
  70. 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

    Mike Mignano is a General Partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the most iconic venture firms in the world, whose investments include Coinbase, Stripe, Etsy, Twilio, Cloudflare. Before joining…

    2026-07-06
  71. 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

    Clay Bavor is the Co-Founder of Sierra, one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise AI companies. Sierra is valued at approximately $15.8 billion, has raised more than $1.5BN from leading investors…

    2026-07-04
  72. State of GTM Recruiting @ The AI-Natives w/ Chris Balestras, Co-founder @ Crew
    Vibescaling PodcastMentioned

    This week, Chris goes solo. No guest necessary as he shares his reaction to a recent 20VC episode where Chad Peets and Chris Degnan sat down with Harry Stebbings to lay out their view of the GTM…

    2026-07-04
  73. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 Coinbase Slashes AI Spend 50%—Is the AI Token Bubble Bursting? 12:55 Anthropic Warns Open Source Could Destroy the AI Business Model 18:10 Dario Escalates the AI War with China &…

    2026-07-02
  74. 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

    KR Sridhar is the Founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, the distributed power company powering the AI revolution. Under his leadership, Bloom has grown to a market cap of approximately $93 billion, with…

    2026-06-29
  75. 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

    Paul Erlanger is the Co-Founder and CEO of FOMO, the social-first trading platform building the future of on-chain investing. Since founding the company in 2025, Paul has raised approximately $94…

    2026-06-27
  76. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 – Google Loses Two AI Legends as Anthropic Wins the Talent War 14:45 – China's $50B DeepSeek Bet Changes the AI Power Balance 27:15 – AI's Memory Crisis Has Begun — Apple Warns of a…

    2026-06-25
  77. 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

    Nikesh Arora is the Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader. Since taking over in 2018, he has transformed the company from an $18 billion market cap business into one…

    2026-06-22
  78. 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

    Ryan Peterson is the Founder & CEO @ Flexport, the logistics darling of the venture capital world that has raised $900M+ with the last round valuing the company at $8BN. Today, the company does $450M…

    2026-06-20
  79. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 — SpaceX Completes the Largest IPO in History 03:45 — Elon Musk Adds a Warren Buffett Fortune in 24 Hours 20:45 — Anthropic's Claude Fable Launches Monday, Gets Banned by Thursday 25:00…

    2026-06-18
  80. 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

    Aravind Srinivas is the Founder and CEO of Perplexity, one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world. Since the start of the year, Perplexity has tripled revenue to well over $500M in ARR.…

    2026-06-15
  81. 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

    Matan Grinberg is the Founder and CEO @ Factory, an AI research lab, bringing autonomy to software engineering. Matan has raised over $220M for the company from the likes of Sequoia, Khosla, NEA,…

    2026-06-13
  82. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 – SpaceX Launches the Largest IPO Roadshow in History at $1.77T Valuation 05:00 – Did Elon Break the IPO Playbook? The High-Risk Pricing Strategy Explained 12:00 – Will SpaceX Create a…

    2026-06-11
  83. 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

    Roman Chernin is Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Nebius, one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in the world. Today, Nebius operates some of the largest AI compute clusters…

    2026-06-08
  84. 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

    Jacob Lauritzen serves as the CTO at Legora, the fastest growing B2B enterprise company in history; hitting $100 million in ARR in just 18 months . Legora boasts a valuation of $5.6BN and has raised…

    2026-06-06
  85. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00:00 — Private Markets Are "F***ing Done" & The Shift to Heavy CapEx 00:00:46 — Anthropic Files to Go Public 00:04:59 — Will the Anthropic IPO Break the Startup Ecosystem? 00:06:22 — The…

    2026-06-04
  86. 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

    Brendan Foody is the Founder and CEO @ Mercor, one of the leading data providers to the largest labs on the planet including OpenAI. In the last two years, Brendan has scaled the company to $1.5BN in…

    2026-06-01
  87. 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

    Nico Laqua is the Co-Founder and CEO of Corgi Insurance, an AI-native insurance carrier built for startups. Corgi is the most intense workplace culture in America. The team works 7 days per week. The…

    2026-05-30
  88. 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

    AGENDA: 05:16 Nvidia Blowout Quarter: $81BN Revenues and Stock… Flat! 10:39 Uber and Microsoft Declare Productivity Gains Questionable from AI 25:26 The Layoffs Continue: ClickUp and Cloudflare 34:39…

    2026-05-28
  89. 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

    Andrew Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. This month, Cerebras went public achieving a market cap of $70BN, the largest semiconductor IPO in history. Cerebras has a massive…

    2026-05-26
  90. 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

    Chad Peets is one of the most straight-talking, no BS sales leaders of our time. Today, he partners with founders of the fastest growing companies in the world, like Harvey, Factory to build the best…

    2026-05-23
  91. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 – Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation & Andre Karpathy's Shock Move 04:46 – Unpacking Anthropic's $30 Billion War Chest 10:52 – The True Cost of AI Tokens: Is Salesforce Spending Too Much?…

    2026-05-21
  92. 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

    Josh Browder is my favourite emerging manager. As the Founder of Browder Capital he has been the first check into unicorns like Micro1, Owner.com and Yuzu Health to name a few. He turned his Thiel…

    2026-05-18
  93. 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 @ Abridg
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Shiv Rao is the CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge, a leader in generative AI for healthcare. The company reached a $5.3 billion valuation following a $300 million funding round with investors including…

    2026-05-16
  94. 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

    AGENDA: 00:05:11 — Anthropic freezes secondary sales, requiring board approval for all transfers. 00:10:45 — Why Anthropic is buying capacity from Elon Musk. 00:15:35 — Anthropic's massive $200B…

    2026-05-14
  95. 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

    Patrick Forquer is the Chief Revenue Officer at Legora, the fastest growing enterprise business to ever hit $100M in ARR and now on track to hit over $250M in ARR by the end of the year. They…

    2026-05-11
  96. 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

    Cliff Weitzman is the Founder & CEO of Speechify AI. He solved his dyslexia and ADHD in college by building a Voice AI agent that's now used by over 60 million people and has over 1 million five-star…

    2026-05-09
  97. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 – Mag Seven Earnings: The "Super Bowl" of Tech Results 04:45 – Google's Cloud Explosion & The AI Search "Disruption" That Never Came 15:53 – Microsoft's $190B Bet: Is AI the Only Thing…

    2026-05-07
  98. 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

    Tobi Lütke is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, the global e-commerce titan with a $160 billion market cap. Under his leadership, the company generates over $7 billion in annual revenue and has seen…

    2026-05-04
  99. 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

    Becca Lindquist is Head of Sales at Clay, one of the fastest-growing AI companies to reach $100M+ ARR. She previously helped scale dbt Labs into a category-defining data platform, building and…

    2026-05-02
  100. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 $45B Floods into Anthropic from Google & Amazon 05:10 OpenAI Misses Growth Targets — Is This a Real Problem? 08:40 The Rise of AI Agents: Why Humans No Longer Pick Models 12:05 "Compute…

    2026-04-30
  101. Winning the Right to Invest: 20VC’s Harry Stebbings
    Talks at GS

    Harry Stebbings has transformed a bedroom podcast into a media and investment conglomerate, leveraging that platform to back ten unicorns. In conversation with Bobby Molavi, head of EMEA execution…

    2026-04-27
  102. 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

    Adam Foroughi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Applovin, one of the most underdiscussed but incredible businesses. Applovin has a market cap of $160BN, the company does $5.48BN in revenue and has an…

    2026-04-27
  103. 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

    Amjad Masad is the Co-Founder and CEO of Replit, one of the leading "vibe-coding" platforms. Under his leadership, Replit has raised a total of $922 million in funding, recently raising at a whopping…

    2026-04-25
  104. 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

    AGENDA: 04:00 — 🤯 Cursor Acquired for $60B?! Breaking down the mind-blowing deal with xAI/SpaceX. 07:00 — 🤝 A Marriage Made in Heaven: Why Cursor and Elon Musk actually make perfect sense. 11:00 — 🏆…

    2026-04-23
  105. BONUS: Young founders on rejecting WFH
    The Business

    Last week, two successful young UK founders joined The Business - venture capitalist Harry Stebbings, who founded 20VC and Amy knight, whose company Must Have Ideas sells home cleaning products. Both…

    2026-04-22
  106. 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

    Aaron Levie is one of the most forward-thinking public company CEOs when it comes to enterprise adoption of AI. Aaron is the CEO of Box, the enterprise storage company that does over $1BN in revenue…

    2026-04-20
  107. 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

    Jake Paul is one of the most influential creators of the digital era, with over 70M+ followers across platforms. He transitioned from YouTube stardom to become one of the biggest pay-per-view draws…

    2026-04-18
  108. How UK's youngest founders made it big
    The Business

    The Sunday Times Young Power List drops today: 30 of the nation’s most inspiring, influential people who are under the age of 30. On this episode, we’re speaking to two members of the next generation…

    2026-04-17
  109. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 — Anthropic Unveils Mythos: The Model "Too Good at Hacking" to Release 05:56 — Why Mythos is a Quantum Leap in Cyber Risk 10:11 — The "Boy Who Cried Wolf": Jason's Critique of Dario…

    2026-04-16
  110. 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

    Anj Midha is the founder of AMP, and a founding investor in Anthropic. Most recently, Anj was General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, leading frontier AI investments. He serves on the boards of…

    2026-04-14
  111. 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

    Carles Reina is VP of Sales at ElevenLabs, where he was the first investor and fourth employee. Carles has scaled the revenue org from Day 1 to over $350M in just 3 years. Carles is also an active…

    2026-04-11
  112. 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

    AGENDA: 03:59 — Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI in Revenue 12:43 — OpenAI Management Reboot 18:24 — OpenAI Buys TBPN 29:00 — SpaceX Files for IPO Targeting $2 Trillion Valuation 37:21 — Doug Leone Returns…

    2026-04-09
  113. Project Europe CEO Kitty Mayo: ‘Harry Stebbings is like our head of state and I’m prime minister’
    Startup Europe — The Sifted PodcastMentioned

    Last year, Kitty Mayo was catapulted into the public eye when she took the helm of Project Europe. The accelerator, launched to much fanfare by Harry Stebbings and about 200 entrepreneurs, has a bold…

    2026-04-08
  114. 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

    Demis Hassabis is the Co-Founder & CEO of Google DeepMind - working on AGI, responsible for AI breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go; and…

    2026-04-07
  115. From £500 To Millions: The Mindset That Changed Everything
    Business Leader

    Harry Stebbings gave up on his law degree in 2015 to take a chance on podcasting – a novel idea back then. He was an early mover in the world of entrepreneurship podcasting and built up a large,…

    2026-04-07
  116. 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

    Andrew Dudum is the Founder and CEO of Hims, the company reshaping consumers relationship to healthcare. It has been a rocky ride over the last 6 months, the company is down 66%, their market cap…

    2026-04-04
  117. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 — Anthropic's Monster Month: 6 Billion in February Revenue 04:30 — The "Claude Mythos" Leak: 10 Trillion Parameters 11:50 — OpenAI Kills "Sora": A Massive Strategic Own Goal? 14:30 —…

    2026-04-02
  118. Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus
    The a16z Show

    This episode originally aired on The Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings. Marc Andreessen explains why learning from past investment mistakes can be a trap, shares his framework for evaluating…

    2026-03-30
  119. 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

    Marc Andreessen is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. The firm now manages over $90BN and has invested in the likes of OpenAI, Airbnb, Coinbase, Anduril and many more. Marc is…

    2026-03-30
  120. 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

    Gili Raanan is the Founder of Cyberstarts, one of the best performing venture funds of the last decade. He is famed for being the seed investor in Wiz, Islands and Cyera, leading to multiple 10x+…

    2026-03-28
  121. 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

    AGENDA: 05:00 — Anthropic vs. OpenAI: Who Is Actually Winning the Enterprise War? 07:55 — "Air of Desperation": Is OpenAI Losing Its Invincibility? 18:00 — SpaceX at $2 Trillion: Elon's Insane Plan…

    2026-03-26
  122. 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

    Matthew Steckman is the President and Chief Business Officer of Anduril. Matt played a central role in securing the $20BN contract Anduril just won with the US military. Prior to Anduril, Matt served…

    2026-03-23
  123. 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

    Shaunt Voskanian is the CRO @ Figma, where he has scaled the sales machine to over $1BN in ARR and over 400 people. Prior to Figma, Shaunt was Senior VP of Global Sales at Datadog where he scaled the…

    2026-03-21
  124. 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

    AGENDA: 04:02 NVIDIA's GTC: What You Need to Know 11:39 Meta's 20% Layoffs & Atlassian Lets Go of 1,600 21:42 How to Test AI Fluency in Employees 30:59 Anduril Lands $20BN Army Contract 46:46 Travis…

    2026-03-19
  125. 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

    Gokul Rajaram is one of the greatest operators turned investors of the last 2 decades. He is trusted as the go to advisor for the greatest founders in the world. Today he serves as a Board Director…

    2026-03-16
  126. 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

    Elena Verna is the Head of Growth at Lovable, one of the fastest growing companies in the world having hit $400M in ARR in just 18 months. Prior to Lovable, Elena was Head of Growth at both Dropbox…

    2026-03-14
  127. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 - ANTHROPIC VS. THE PENTAGON: The Billion Dollar Supply Chain War 07:11 - B2B PANIC: Why Leading Companies Are Losing Deals to OpenAI 12:19 - THE ANTHROPIC ENDGAME: Will Claude Eclipse…

    2026-03-12
  128. 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

    Miles Clements is a Partner @ Accel where he helps to lead their growth fund. At Accel, Miles has led or invested in Atlassian, Cursor, Linear, and more. AGENDA: 03:38 Where is True Alpha and Value…

    2026-03-09
  129. 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

    Mitchell Green is a legendary growth equity investor and the Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital, a firm with over $5 billion in assets under management. Known as a relentless "money…

    2026-03-07
  130. 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

    AGENDA: 04:13 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins 13:54 Was Sam Altman Wrong to Take the Deal 24:28 OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round: The Breakdown 28:22 Who Has a Bigger Valuation Premium: Sam Altman or…

    2026-03-05
  131. 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

    Monday has been hit harder than almost any other public SaaS company. With $1.3BN in ARR, the company is valued at just $3.8BN; a more than 60% fall since IPO. Today, Eran Zinman, Monday's CEO joins…

    2026-03-02
  132. 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

    Jerry Murdock is the Co-Founder of Insight Partners, one of the most formidable growth investors of the last three decades, with over $90 billion in AUM and a portfolio that has shaped the modern…

    2026-02-28
  133. 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

    AGENDA: 03:55 Anthropic Security Product Wipes Billions Off Public Markets 11:17 Do Agents Turn SaaS Incumbents into Valueless Databases 22:07 Anthropic Secondary Sale Makes Hundreds Decamillionaires…

    2026-02-26
  134. 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

    Lucas Swisher co-leads the growth fund at Coatue where he has partnered with iconic companies like OpenAI, Harvey, Deel, Canva, Openevidence, Anthropic, and others. Prior to Coatue, he was on the…

    2026-02-23
  135. 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

    Alexander Embiricos is the Head of Codex at OpenAI, leading the development of the company's flagship AI coding systems that power automated software generation, debugging and developer workflows.…

    2026-02-21
  136. 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

    AGENDA: 04:14 Anthropic's $30B Raise at $380B 06:18 Why SaaS Stocks Keep Getting Crushed 18:15 Wall Street's New Religion: AI Replaces Headcount 22:42 The Bear Case for Shopify: What Could Go Wrong?…

    2026-02-19
  137. 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

    Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the co-founder and CEO of Klarna, the global digital bank with over 114 million global active users and 3.4 million transactions per day. Seb is one of the leading public…

    2026-02-16
  138. 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

    Carles Reina is VP of Sales at ElevenLabs, where he was the first investor and fourth employee. Carles has scaled the revenue org from Day 1 to over $330M in just 3 years. Carles is also an active…

    2026-02-14
  139. Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI?
    The a16z Show

    In this episode from 20VC, Harry Stebbings talks with Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, about the future of SaaS in an AI world. Anish argues that software is completely oversold and that the…

    2026-02-12
  140. 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

    AGENDA: 03:43 Anthropic Predicts $149B in ARR in 2029 09:27 Will FDEs Become More or Less Powerful 26:17 Harvey Raises $200M at an $11BN Valuation 42:45 Is Customer Support a Terrible or Terrific…

    2026-02-12
  141. 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

    Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads consumer and fintech investing at Series A. He serves on the boards of standout portfolio companies including Deel,…

    2026-02-09
  142. 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

    Ariel Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Navan (formerly TripActions), an AI-powered travel and expense platform. Last month, Ariel took the company public, since being a public company, they have…

    2026-02-07
  143. 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

    AGENDA: 00:00 - SpaceX Completes Acquisition of xAI in $1.25 Trillion Merger 08:44 - The Rehabilitation of the IPO and the End of "State Private Forever" 15:53 - The 2026 SaaS Massacre: Public Market…

    2026-02-05
  144. 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

    Oren Zeev is one of the most prominent solo capitalists in venture. He is one of the most no BS investors of our time. Oren manages over $1BN in AUM and is known for his "radical alignment" approach,…

    2026-02-02
  145. 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

    Omer Shai serves as the CMO at Wix. Shai leads a team of over 400 people and is responsible for the company's global online and offline marketing activity, which boasts an incredible growth of…

    2026-01-31
  146. 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

    AGENDA: 03:36 Brex Acquisition by Capital One for $5.15BN 10:54 Does Brex's Acquisition Help or Hurt Ramp? 16:28 TikTok Deal Completed: Who Won & Who Lost: Analysis 19:30 Anthropic Inference Costs…

    2026-01-29
  147. 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

    Max Junestrand is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Legora, the legal AI company that has scaled to 750 of the world's leading law firms as customers and over 300 employees in just 2 years. They have raised…

    2026-01-26
  148. 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

    AGENDA: 00:03:00 – Harry's Wild Start: Making £1.75M at 19 in 36 Hours 00:06:00 – How Harry Got Marc Benioff on 20VC with Cold Emailing Alone 00:07:30 – Raising $70M on WhatsApp – Relationship…

    2026-01-24
  149. 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

    AGENDA: 03:30 Can VC Survive With Public Market Prices Today 15:20 The Implosion of Thinking Machines 21:13 Elon Musk vs. OpenAI: The Legal Battle 40:50 Can OpenAI Win Ads? 55:50 ClickHouse's $15BN…

    2026-01-22
  150. 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

    Winston Weinberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harvey, the leading professional services platform engineered with AI for law, tax, and finance. Winston has raised over $980M for Harvey from Sequoia,…

    2026-01-19
  151. 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

    Noam Lovinsky is the CPO @ Superhuman (formerly Grammarly). Prior to Superhuman he was a Senior Director of Product Management at Facebook. In his earlier years, he was CPO @ Thumbtack and spent 5…

    2026-01-16
  152. 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

    AGENDA: 05:02 Anthropic's $10 Billion Fundraise 07:54 Has Claude Code Beaten Cursor Already 15:54 OpenAI Could Still Go to Zero 26:33 Andreessen Horowitz's $15 Billion Fundraise 45:16 The Middle is…

    2026-01-15
  153. Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives
    The a16z Show

    This episode is a special feed drop from The Twenty Minute VC, featuring a conversation between Harry Stebbings and a16z General Partner Alex Rampell. Alex shares how he thinks about investing at…

    2026-01-12
  154. 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

    Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andressen Horowitz, where he leads their $1.7BN apps fund. Just last week, a16z announced they had raised $15BN for their latest funds, over 20% of all capital…

    2026-01-12
  155. 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

    Luke Harries is Head of Growth at ElevenLabs, where he leads marketing, product, engineering, and developer experience. ElevenLabs has raised $281M with the latest round pricing the company at a…

    2026-01-11
  156. 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

    Chad Peets is one of the great sales leaders of our time. Previously, he was the sales saviour at Snowflake and was an advisor to the CEO there. He was also an MD at Sutter Hill where he sat on the…

    2026-01-09
  157. $400M Investor: They're lying about how you get rich! Turn $0 into Millions (Harry Stebbings)
    The Burnouts with Phoebe & Sophia

    He started a podcast in his bedroom before most people land their first job. Now, Harry Stebbings runs one of the most influential platforms in venture capital and manages a $400M fund. In this…

    2026-01-08
  158. 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 202
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    AGENDA: 04:30 Groq Acquired by NVIDIA for $20BN: The Breakdown 17:13 Meta's $2BN Acquisition of Manus: Did They Sell Too Early 36:04 OpenAI's Stock-Based Compensation Strategy 47:42 Will AI Replace…

    2026-01-08
  159. Inside the playbook behind the podcast turned into a $400,000,000 venture fund - Harry Stebbings
    BILLIONS Podcast | Inside the World’s Billion-Dollar SaaS & AI Empires

    Today on BILLIONS , I’m sitting down with Harry Stebbings — the guy who turned a microphone in his bedroom into a $400 million venture fund . He started The Twenty Minute VC as a teenager, and it…

    2026-01-05
  160. 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

    I have interviewed 1,000 entrepreneurs over 10 years. Nik Storonsky and our guest today are the two best that I have interviewed. Joining the show today; Alan Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of Fuse…

    2026-01-05
  161. 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

    Matt Fitzpatrick is the CEO of Invisible Technologies, leading the company's mission to make AI work. Since joining as CEO in January 2025, he has raised $100M and accelerated AI adoption across…

    2025-12-31
  162. The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z
    The a16z Show

    This episode is a special replay of David George’s conversation with Harry Stebbings on 20VC. David is a General Partner on a16z’s growth team, and in this discussion he breaks down how he thinks…

    2025-12-31
  163. SaaStr 834: Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott, and Harry Stebbings, Founder of 20VC
    The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

    SaaStr 834: Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott, and Harry Stebbings, Founder of 20VC Discover how OpenAI's unique approach to B2B sales…

    2025-12-24
  164. 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

    AGENDA: 03:48 Founder of the Year 2025 06:58 Product of the Year 10:05 Fund of the Year 20:52 Breakout Companies of 2025: Who Made the Biggest Impact? 26:57 Biggest Surprises of 2025 32:57…

    2025-12-22
  165. 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

    Gérald Marolf is the Chief Product Officer at On Running. Gérald oversees the full range of On's shoes, apparel and accessories to make sure each delivers performance, comfort and style. Before On,…

    2025-12-19
  166. Are venture capitalists the new power brokers?
    The Times Tech Podcast

    Who has power in the tech world now – governments, big tech, or the investors writing the cheques? Danny and Katie are joined by Harry Stebbings, founder of 20VC, on how venture capital shapes what…

    2025-12-19
  167. 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

    AGENDA: 03:32 Lightspeed's $9 Billion Fundraise 05:20 The Impact of Mega Funds on Seed VCs 10:09 The Supercycle of Growth and Late-Stage Investments 13:06 Disney Invests $1BN into OpenAI and What It…

    2025-12-18
  168. 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

    David George is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's Growth investing team. His team has backed many of the defining companies of this era, including Databricks, Figma,…

    2025-12-15
  169. 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

    Raaz Herberg is the Chief Marketing Officer and VP Product Strategy at Wiz, the fastest-growing cloud security company in history. As one of the first 10 employees, Raaz has helped scale the business…

    2025-12-12
  170. 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

    AGENDA: 03:46 SpaceX's $800 Billion Valuation: A Deep Dive 09:18 IPO Market Predictions for 2026 18:18 Netflix's Bold Move: Acquiring Warner Brothers 27:43 Tiger's New Fund Strategy 33:02 Databricks'…

    2025-12-11
  171. Bryan Habana: From World Cup Win to Family Betrayal, The Rebirth Of The Springboks, Why Rugby HAS To Change (Ep.99)
    Business of Sport

    Today we welcome a true sporting legend. Bryan Habana is a 100+ cap Springbok, a World Champion and joint highest tryscorer in Rugby World Cup history, a man who races cheetahs. As I’m sure you’ve…

    2025-12-09
  172. 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

    Tarek Mansour is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Kalshi, the leader in the world of prediction markets. Just last week, they announced their $1BN raise at an $11BN valuation. In total, they have raised…

    2025-12-08
  173. 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

    Bending Spoons is the acquisition machine of the tech world. They have acquired the likes of Evernote, Vimeo, Eventbrite, Streamyard and more. However, they never open their gates to the secrets…

    2025-12-05
  174. 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

    AGENDA: 04:20 Thrive and OpenAI Partnership 07:14 Databricks Raising $5BN at $134BN Valuation: Cheap or Not? 17:39 Eventbrite Acquired by Bending Spoons for $500M 21:39 Pagerduty's $1BN Market Cap,…

    2025-12-04
  175. Amelia Miller, Cofounder of Ivee
    Scaling EuropeMentioned

    Amelia Miller is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, a published psychologist, and a former international athlete, and now cofounder at Ivee. Ivee the job platform for people that have been out…

    2025-08-28
  176. E537 | This Week in European Tech with Dan, Mads & Lomax
    EUVCMentioned

    Welcome back to another episode of Upside at the EUVC Podcast , where Dan Bowyer , Mads Jensen of SuperSeed and Lomax from Outsized Ventures unpack what’s happening in European tech and venture…

    2025-08-04
  177. Wie Project Europe die nächste Generation von Unternehmern formt - mit Max Linden (lemon.markets) & Michael Wax (Forto)
    Startup InsiderMentioned

    Kann Europa eine neue Generation global führender Unternehmen hervorbringen? In dieser Folge von Startup Spotlight sprechen Max Linden (Founder & CEO von lemon.markets) und Michael Wax (Co-Founder &…

    2025-03-17
  178. Project Europe & Europas Kapitalmärkte: Investments & Exits – mit Daniel Wild
    Startup InsiderMentioned

    In der heutigen Ausgabe von Investments & Exits begrüßen wir Daniel Wild, Gründer und Aufsichtsrat bei Mountain Alliance, welcher Harry Stebbings neue Initiative Project Europe analysiert und über…

    2025-03-17
  179. Upside #33 - UK DOGE, Project Europe, Trump's Real Tariff Tactics
    UpsideMentioned

    The UK’s Cost-Cutting Drive – DOGE'esque? UK government’s plan to cut civil service costs using AI-driven efficiencies. Public sector pensions estimated between £2.5-5 trillion – is cost-cutting…

    2025-03-15
  180. Bonus Track - Rapport complet sur l'écosystème tech français - Alexandre Dewez (20VC)
    tech 45'Mentioned

    Bonus Track cette semaine avec un investisseur 🤑 Alexandre Dewez (ex-Eurazeo) a rejoint 20VC et Harry Stebbings à l'été 2024. Harry a une histoire incroyable, passionné d’entrepreneuriat, à 18 ans il…

    2025-01-17
  181. #125 $400M調達したメディアVC「20VC」、VCはどう優位性を作れるのか?
    Repeat Rhyme / リピートライムMentioned

    原さんの曲チョイス:Fame 90 - David Bowie https://youtu.be/_Up1s8z7jH8 Repeat Rhymeプレイリスト https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qFUG8l9LOtnfjTkTlM2vj?si=edaaa0b1f28a4f7d エピソードの流れ (00:00) Intro (0:43)…

    2024-11-07
  182. 38: How To Break into Venture Capital Without an Ivy League Degree or Money
    The Ajim ShowMentioned

    In this episode, Eunice Ajim discusses unconventional ways of getting into venture capital without an Ivy League degree or a lot of money. She highlights the example of Harry Stebbings, who used…

    2024-02-28
  183. YC demo day valuation tensions, how VCs can find gems, Substack's performance & more | E1716
    This Week in StartupsMentioned

    Jason breaks down the valuation tension surrounding YC demo days (2:36), how to get better prices on YC-equivalent startups (8:59), Garry Tan's response to complaints (15:18), and more! Then, Jason…

    2023-04-07
  184. 9: 20VC Fund, Call Her Daddy Spotify Deal, Tokenization of Creators, Mark Cuban's DeFi Bet + Q&A
    Not Investment AdviceMentioned

    Jack Butcher, Bilal Zaidi & Trung Phan discuss what they're finding on the edges of the internet + the latest in business, technology and memes. Watch + Subscribe on YouTube:…

    2021-06-23
  185. Owning the paycheck is the key to fintech success
    EquityMentioned

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, Natasha and Danny, otherwise known as your two new…

    2021-06-18
  186. Harry Stebbings is leaving Stride, the VC firm he founded with Fred Destin
    TechCrunch Startup NewsMentioned

    Harry Stebbings, the podcaster-turned-VC, is stepping down as a partner of Stride, the London-based venture capital firm he co-founded with Fred Destin, formerly of Accel. In a series of tweets,…

    2021-02-08

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