20VC with Harry Stebbings

Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138

Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137

Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136

Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135

Founders Fund partner and Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens advocates for a high-conviction, non-consensus approach to venture capital, rejecting rigid, process-heavy investment committees in favor of individual partner autonomy. Success in the industry requires identifying category-defining winners rather than seeking ...

Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134

Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132

David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131

Bryan Johnson: Why Humans are No Longer Qualified to Manage Our Own Affairs | E1130

Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129

Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128

Venture capital strategy in the cybersecurity sector centers on the "human element," prioritizing founder resilience and life history over traditional market analysis. Gili Raanan, founder of Cyberstarts, employs a rigorous "Sunrise" process that validates significant pain points with Fortune 500 CISOs before any produ...

Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127

In this interview, Luca Ferrari, the founder of Bending Spoons, discusses his journey from a shy child to a successful entrepreneur. He shares insights into the company's unique strategy of acquiring apps with existing market fit and optimizing them, contrasting it with their earlier failed startup, Evertail, where the...

Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126

Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125

Brendon Cassidy: Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires | E1124

Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123

Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122

Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121

Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120

Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119

Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118