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20VC with Harry Stebbings · Business

20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC, hosted by Harry Stebbings, takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join Harry and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. The Twenty Minute VC also provides an instructional guide as to what it takes to get employed in the Venture Capital industry, with VCs giving specific advice on how to get noticed from the crowd and increasing your chances of employment. Our amazing Venture Capitalists also provide their analysis of the current technology market, providing advice and suggestions on the latest investing trends and predictions. Join us so you can see how you can get big, powerful improvements, fast.

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The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao

20 Jul 2026
1h 28m
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Specialized, private intelligence will define the next phase of AI as enterprises move beyond general-purpose models to leverage proprietary data for unique, high-value workflows. Fireworks founder Lin Qiao argues that the industry’s future lies in millions of specialized models rather than a few monolithic AGI systems...

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We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO

18 Jul 2026
1h 29m
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Meta Takes on OpenAI | Apple Sues OpenAI | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO

16 Jul 2026
1h 26m
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Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding

13 Jul 2026
1h 4m
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⁠Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder

11 Jul 2026
1h 0m
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Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips

09 Jul 2026
1h 27m
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The rapid integration of AI companies with government entities, exemplified by proposals to grant the U.S. government equity stakes, signals a shift toward institutionalized oversight and political alignment. This trend reflects a broader evolution in venture capital, where founders increasingly accept massive dilution...

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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV

06 Jul 2026AI processed

The AI landscape is transitioning from a massive infrastructure build-out to a proliferation of application-layer software. While foundational labs hold significant compute advantages, the next wave of value creation lies in specialized, human-aligned agents and "harnesses" that integrate deeply with user workflows. Su...

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Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need

04 Jul 2026
1h 11m
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The rapid evolution of enterprise AI necessitates a strategic balance between leveraging frontier intelligence and deploying cost-effective, fine-tuned open-weights models. Clay Bavor, co-founder of Sierra, highlights that while frontier models provide unmatched reasoning capabilities for complex tasks, businesses incr...

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Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups

02 Jul 2026
1h 18m
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Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power

29 Jun 2026
1h 6m
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How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong

27 Jun 2026
54m
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DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip

25 Jun 2026
1h 28m
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The AI industry faces a critical inflection point as massive capital expenditures collide with the urgent need for demonstrable ROI. Talent migration from incumbents like Google to startups like Anthropic reflects a shift toward environments that prioritize research autonomy and rapid product deployment. While hypersca...

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Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs

22 Jun 2026
1h 16m
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AI is fundamentally reshaping enterprise workflows, moving from passive SaaS containers to intelligent, opinionated applications that require a radical rethink of business processes. While consumer models prioritize breadth, enterprise success depends on depth—specifically, the ability to integrate proprietary context ...

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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask

20 Jun 2026
1h 20m
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Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN

18 Jun 2026
1h 28m
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Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China

15 Jun 2026
1h 35m
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AI development is shifting from simple answer generation toward autonomous agentic systems capable of executing complex, multi-step workflows. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argues that the most significant economic value lies in "orchestration"—the ability to integrate diverse models, tools, and local compute to maxi...

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OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning

13 Jun 2026
1h 25m
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SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR

11 Jun 2026
1h 15m
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Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute

08 Jun 2026
1h 14m
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The AI infrastructure race is in its early stages of enterprise adoption, driven by a massive, unmet demand for compute rather than a speculative bubble. Nebius operates across four strategic layers: physical capacity, managed multi-tenant cloud, managed inference via its "Token Factory," and future agentic workflows. ...

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Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO

06 Jun 2026
57m
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