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StandardSummaries only20VC: 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· Jan 24, 2026
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 Building Secrets 00:12:00 –…
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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· Jun 13, 2026
Matan Grinberg went from 12 years as a string theorist to building Factory—an AI software development company valued at $1.5B—after literally never having had a job, and now he's reshaping how enterprises build software …
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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· May 11, 2026
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 recently raised a $550 milli…
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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· Oct 31, 2025
🎧 20VC x Tim Ferriss — Full Episode Timeline 00:00 – "How Do You Stay True to Yourself When You Have to Perform for the World?" 06:00 – "Why Tim Ferriss Refused to Go All-In on YouTube" 09:00 – "You Don't Need 10 Millio…
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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· Apr 9, 2026
In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings discusses the latest tech news, including OpenAI's management changes, Anthropic's $30 billion revenue milestone, and SpaceX's confidential IPO filing targeting a $2 trillion valu…
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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· Mar 26, 2026
In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings discusses the massive market overreaction to AI proof of concepts, the stress VCs face, and the challenges of IPOs for unicorns. With insights from Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscol…
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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· Mar 5, 2026
In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings and guests discuss Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon over AI ethics, OpenAI's massive $110 billion funding round, and Block's significant workforce reduction, highlighting the e…
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20VC: Inside Coatue's $7BN Growth Fund: Why Price Matters Least | Why Mega Markets are the Most Important | How Mega Funds Can Still Do 5x Returns | 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· Feb 23, 2026
In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Lucas Swisher from CO2 about the intricacies of venture capital, discussing the importance of market size, the dynamics of public vs. private investments, and the evolv…
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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· Aug 24, 2026
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 Sequoia, Julien spent five …
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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· Aug 22, 2026
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 giants such as Shopi…
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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· Aug 20, 2026
Rory O'Driscoll & Jason Lemkin break down SpaceX's $60B Cursor deal, Anthropic's first profit on $11.5B revenue, Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition, and Silver Lake's $43B Workday buyout.
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20VC: Uber President on Budgeting AI at Uber: How AI Helps and Hurts Uber | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash to #1 in Food | The Untold Stories of Travis Kalanick, Dara Khosrowshahi and China with Andrew MacDonald
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Aug 17, 2026
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 per week, has 200M us…
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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· Aug 13, 2026
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 Google's AI Brain Drai…
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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· Aug 10, 2026
OpenRouter CEO Alex Atala on routing 70 models a month, why Chinese open-source is beating America, the $10B Stripe acquisition rumors, and why the AI model market will be the biggest in human history.
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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· Aug 8, 2026
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 more. In a world of expa…
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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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Aug 6, 2026
Nikesh Arora joins to break down Airtable's $1.3B fire sale, Leo Aschenbrenner's leveraged hedge fund implosion, Anthropic's security breaches, and why compute—not intelligence—will define the next five years of AI.
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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· Aug 3, 2026
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 latest round valuing t…
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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· Aug 1, 2026
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 making a decision in t…
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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· Jul 30, 2026
Jensen's first X post sparks the open vs. closed AI war, Anthropic plays villain, Travis Kalanick raises $1.7B for robots, Google posts negative free cash flow, and LLM agents are silently breaching every company.
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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· Jul 27, 2026
Matt Murphy of Menlo Ventures breaks down the Anthropic bet, why Series A is the worst place to invest right now, and how massive wins change a firm's mentality.
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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· Osvald Nitski· Jul 25, 2026
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 valuation, and is reporte…
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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· Jul 23, 2026
Rory O'Driscoll & Jason Lemkin break down China's new frontier models, why now may be the perfect time for OpenRouter to sell, Fireworks' $1.5B raise, and whether Stripe can pull off a PayPal takeover.
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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· Jul 20, 2026
Fireworks AI founder Lin Kuo breaks down why specialized intelligence beats AGI, how open-source models are reshaping enterprise AI, and why a 10x cost drop will trigger 100x usage growth.
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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· Fred Turner· Jul 18, 2026
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 9 months. They did ov…
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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· Jul 16, 2026
Apple sues OpenAI for trade secrets, Meta launches Llama Spark 1.1 with aggressive pricing, and SK Hynix hits NASDAQ — plus why late-stage venture is eating early-stage alive.
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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· Avishai Abrahami· Jul 13, 2026
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 capitalization of appro…
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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· Jul 11, 2026
Glean founder Arvind Jain debates Harry on AI ROI, frontier model commoditization, open source's rise, Microsoft bundling, shrinking teams, and why being a CEO means never being happy.
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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· Jul 9, 2026
Harry, Rory, and Jason break down Washington lifting the Fable 5 ban, Sam Altman's wild offer to give the US government a 5% OpenAI stake, Deepseek building its own chip, and Meta's surprise cloud business launch.
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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· Jul 6, 2026
Mike Mignano, newest GP at USV, breaks down the AI infrastructure-to-application shift, open vs. closed model wars, routing layer economics, and why agents will demand unprecedented personal trust.
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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· Jul 4, 2026
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 including Sequoia, B…
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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· Jul 2, 2026
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 & Open-Source 22:00 Should th…
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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· Jun 29, 2026
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 revenue surpassing $2 …
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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· Jun 27, 2026
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 million, including a $17…
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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· Jun 25, 2026
Jason Lemkin returns from China to break down DeepSeek's $7.4B raise, Google losing two generational researchers, and why Wall Street is finally demanding AI show its ROI.
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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· Jun 22, 2026
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 worth more than $225…
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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· Jun 20, 2026
Flexport's Ryan Peterson calls remote work 'white collar fraud,' reveals near-failed fundraising rounds, debates AI model wars, and shares why revenge makes a great investment thesis.
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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· Jun 18, 2026
SpaceX's $2.7T IPO, Anthropic's government ban, Salesforce's $3.6B Fin acquisition, and why any liquidity for pre-AI SaaS companies is top-decile performance—Benchmark GP Everett Randall joins to break it all down.
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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· Jun 15, 2026
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on attacking Google, why the model isn't the product, token value per watt, China's underestimated edge, and building a $2T company with 10,000 people.
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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· Jun 11, 2026
SpaceX's $1.77T IPO, OpenAI filing confidentially, Uber cutting HR, Ramp at $44B, and why lean AI-native startups may permanently shrink the workforce—Rory, Jason, and Harry break it all down.
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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· Roman Chernin· Jun 8, 2026
Nebius co-founder Roman Chernin breaks down the AI infrastructure race, why consolidation is his biggest threat, and how a diversified customer stack beats raw capacity every time.
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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· Jun 4, 2026
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 "Billion-Dollar Posit…
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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· Brendan Foody· Jun 1, 2026
Macaw co-CEO Brandon Foody busts myths about the company's hack and revenue, reveals spending more on AI tokens than employee salaries, and predicts at least one frontier lab hits $10 trillion.
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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· May 30, 2026
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 founder sleeps in th…
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20VC: OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | NVIDIA's $81BN Revenue Quarter | Cloudlfare 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· May 28, 2026
Anthropic laps OpenAI in revenue growth, SpaceX drops a wild S1 worth debating, Nvidia prints $56B profit in a quarter, and AI layoffs accelerate—Jason & Rory break it all down.
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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· Andrew Feldman· May 26, 2026
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman breaks down why AI infrastructure demand is outpacing supply, why memory shortages will last years, and how 800 millionaires were made on IPO day.
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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· May 21, 2026
Karpathy joins Anthropic, SpaceX eyes history's largest IPO, Cerebras smashes its debut, and the crew debates whether SaaS is terminal or just waiting for one founder to pull off an AI comeback.
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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· Josh Browder· May 18, 2026
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 Fellowship Grant of $10…
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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· May 16, 2026
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 Jensen Huang, Henry Kr…
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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· May 14, 2026
Anthropic's SpaceX deal, $200B Google commit, Cerebras IPO frenzy, Ramp's $40B raise, and why HubSpot crashed while Monday soared—plus ZoomInfo's brutal AI reckoning.
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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· May 9, 2026
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 ratings. Over 200 so…
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