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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch, page 11
by Harry Stebbings · English
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and more.
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20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers14 Mar 2025 · 49 min
20VC: Lessons from Investing $2BN and Returning $8BN in Cash | Why Most Venture Partnerships are Broken | We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions | Are The Best Deals Always Expensive and Competitive with Jake Saper @ Emergence CapitalIn this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, host Harry Stebbings interviews Jake Saper, a General Partner at Emergence Capital.10 Mar 2025 · 1 h 29 min
20Sales: Everything You Know About Sales Playbooks is Wrong | How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires | How to Crush Pipeline and Deal Reviews as a Team | How to Structure Sales Teams and Sales Comp Plans with Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1PasswordIn this episode of *The Twenty Minute VC*, host Harry Stebbings interviews Julian Teixeira, the Chief Revenue Officer at 1Password.7 Mar 2025 · 52 min
20VC: Lovable on Hitting $17.5M in ARR in 3 Months | Adding $2.1M ARR Every Week | Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention: Better than ChatGPT | The Story of Europe's Fastest Scaling Company with Anton Osika20VC: Lovable on Hitting $17.5M in ARR in 3 Months5 Mar 2025 · 51 min
20VC: Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: Where Will Value Be Created in a World of AI | Have Foundation Models Commoditized | When Do Model Providers Become Application Providers | What Anthropic Learned from Deepseek20VC: Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: Where Will Value Be Created in a World of AI3 Mar 2025 · 1 h 6 min
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George BonaciThe Twenty Minute VC features interviews with top venture capitalists and founders to discuss startup funding and growth strategies.28 Feb 2025 · 55 min
20VC: The Insane Story of Glovo: Selling 30% of the Company for €100K | The McDonalds Deal That Saved Them | Running out of Money Three Times | Burning $1M Per Day | Being Acquired for $2.2BN with Oscar Pierre, Founder @ Glovo20VC: The Insane Story of Glovo: Selling 30% of the Company for €100K | The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them | Running out of Money Three Times | Burning $1M Per Day | Being Acquired for $2.2BN26 Feb 2025 · 1 h 7 min
20VC: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | NVIDIA vs AMD: Who Wins and Why | The Future of Inference vs Training | The Economics of Compute & Why To Win You Must Have Product, Data & Compute with Steeve Morin @ ZMLSteeve Morin, Founder & CEO @ ZML24 Feb 2025 · 1 h 13 min
20VC Exclusive: Mercor Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation: Scaling to $70M in ARR in 24 Months | 9-9-6: 9AM-9PM - 6 Days Per Week: The Most Intense Culture in Silicon Valley | The Future of Programming, Models and Data with Adarsh Hiremath20VC Exclusive: Mercor Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation: Scaling to $70M in ARR in 24 Months | 9-9-6: 9AM-9PM - 6 Days Per Week: The Most Intense Culture in Silicon Valley | The Future of…20 Feb 2025 · 46 min
20VC: NVIDIA vs Groq: The Future of Training vs Inference | Meta, Google, and Microsoft's Data Center Investments: Who Wins | Data, Compute, Models: The Core Bottlenecks in AI & Where Value Will Distribute with Jonathan Ross, Founder @ Groq20VC: NVIDIA vs Groq: The Future of Training vs Inference17 Feb 2025 · 1 h 21 min
20VC: From Penniless Printing Shop Offices to Public Company and One of the Largest Entertainment Companies: The Story of LADbible | The Future of Content & Social Media | US vs Europe: Is Europe F****** with Solly SolomouFrom Penniless Printing Shop Offices to Public Company: The Story of LADbible14 Feb 2025 · 1 h
20VC: Monzo: The Greatest Turnaround in Tech: From £40M Revenues, Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS to $1BN in Revenue, Profitable and 10M Customers with TS Anil, CEO @ Monzo20VC: Monzo: The Greatest Turnaround in Tech13 Feb 2025 · 56 min
20VC: The $5BN Company Built from the Belgian Countryside | The Story of Odoo: The Company with No Plans to Sell, IPO & Their Billionaire Founder Who Does Not Care About Money with Fabien Pinckaers, Founder & CEO @ OdooThe $5BN Company Built from the Belgian Countryside | The Story of Odoo12 Feb 2025 · 1 h 16 min
20VC: Why Model Providers Will Kill Many Startups Moving into the Application Layer | Why Deepseek is not a Threat to OpenAI & Why OpenAI Beats Anthropic | Apps vs Models vs Infrastructure: Where is Value in AI with Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake CEO20VC: Why Model Providers Will Kill Many Startups Moving into the Application Layer | Why Deepseek is not a Threat to OpenAI & Why OpenAI Beats Anthropic | Apps vs Models vs Infrastructure: Where is…10 Feb 2025 · 55 min
20Product: Product Secrets Behind Uber and Opendoor | How AI Changes the Role of the PM & The Product Development Process | How to Hire the Best Product Teams & What No One Does That Everyone Should Do with Brian Tolkin20Product: Product Secrets Behind Uber and Opendoor7 Feb 2025 · 45 min
20VC: Affirm Max Levchin on Why Grading Talent by Letter (A or B) is Total BS | How to Create a Culture of Post Mortems and Writing | Why You Should Only Study Failure Not Success & The Biggest Surprises Scaling to $18.7BN Market CapIn this episode of *The Twenty Minute VC*, host Harry Stebbings interviews Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Affirm, a leading company in the buy now, pay later space valued at $18.7 billion.5 Feb 2025 · 1 h 2 min
20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne TingIn this episode, Wayne Ting, CEO of Lime, discusses the journey of transforming the company into a profitable leader in the micromobility space after facing significant financial challenges.30 Jan 2025 · 1 h 6 min
20VC: Deepseek Special: Is Deepseek a Weapon of the CCP | How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | Why $500BN for Stargate is Not Enough | The Future of Inference, NVIDIA and Foundation Models with Jonathan Ross @ GroqIn this episode of "The Twenty Minute VC," host Harry Stebbings interviews Jonathan Ross, Co-Founder and CEO of Groq, discussing Deepseek, its implications for AI, and the broader context of AI…30 Jan 2025 · 55 min
20Sales: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation & How to Teach Them | Verticalised Sales Playbooks: When and How | How the Best Sales Reps and Leaders Structure Their Time with Carlos Delatorre, CRO @ Harness20Sales: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation & How to Teach Them24 Jan 2025 · 1 h 8 min
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised?22 Jan 2025 · 1 h 6 min
20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US…20 Jan 2025 · 1 h 18 min
20VC: Monday.com: Scaling from $6M to $120M in ARR in 3 Years | How Monday Have Built the Best Performance Marketing Engine in SaaS | Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product; The Biggest Lessons and Mistakes with Eran Zinman20VC: Monday.com: Scaling from $6M to $120M in ARR in 3 Years17 Jan 2025 · 55 min
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ SynthesiaIn this episode of "The Twenty Minute VC," host Harry Stebbings sits down with Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of Synthesia, a leading AI video communications platform for enterprises.15 Jan 2025 · 1 h 12 min
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick13 Jan 2025 · 1 h 13 min