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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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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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 Capital

10 Mar 2025
1h 28m
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This podcast features an interview with Jake Saper, a general partner at Emergence Capital, focusing on his venture capital investment strategies and experiences. The conversation covers his firm's investment in Zoom, the importance of market pull and founder capabilities in successful investments, the challenges of e...

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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 @ 1Password

07 Mar 2025
51m
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This podcast interviews Julian Teixeira, CRO at 1Password, about sales leadership strategies. The discussion covers building sales playbooks, hiring and managing sales teams (including the hunter vs. farmer model and the importance of outbound sales), setting targets, conducting deal reviews, and navigating the changi...

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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 Osika

05 Mar 2025
50m
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This podcast episode interviews Anton Osika, co-founder and CEO of Lovable, a rapidly growing European startup. The conversation covers Lovable's journey, from its inception as a side project to its current $17.5M ARR and $2M weekly growth. Key topics include Osika's hiring philosophy (favoring talent over experience...

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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 Deepseek

03 Mar 2025
1h 6m
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This podcast interviews Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and CPO at Anthropic, about the future of AI and where value will be generated in the coming decade. The discussion covers the challenges faced by startups and established companies integrating AI, the importance of differentiated go-to-market strategies an...

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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 Bonaci

28 Feb 2025
55m
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This interview podcast features George Bonaci, VP of Growth at Ramp, discussing growth strategies for startups. The conversation covers topics such as experimental design, the importance of velocity over perfection in testing, building a portfolio of growth bets, and the challenges of scaling marketing efforts. Bon...

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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 @ Glovo

26 Feb 2025
1h 7m
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This podcast episode features an interview with Oscar Pierre, founder and CEO of Glovo, a food delivery company acquired by Delivery Hero for $2.2 billion. The interview details Glovo's challenging fundraising journey, including near-bankruptcy situations and the crucial role of securing a deal with McDonald's. Pierr...

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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 @ ZML

24 Feb 2025
1h 12m
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This 20VC podcast episode interviews Steeve Morin, founder of ZML, about the future of AI chips and inference. The conversation covers the inefficiencies of current GPU-centric approaches, particularly for inference, highlighting the cost savings possible with alternative hardware like AMD GPUs. Morin predicts a sign...

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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 Hiremath

20 Feb 2025
45m
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This 20VC podcast episode interviews Adarsh Hiremath, co-founder of Mercor, a rapidly growing AI-powered recruiting platform. The conversation covers Mercor's $100M Series B funding round at a $2B valuation, its unique 9-9-6 work culture, and its rapid scaling. Hiremath discusses Mercor's focus on high-quality human ...

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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 @ Groq

17 Feb 2025
1h 20m
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This interview podcast features Jonathan Ross, founder and CEO of Groq, discussing the AI landscape and his company's approach to inference. The conversation covers scaling laws in AI, misconceptions about compute vs. inference, Groq's unique chip architecture and business model, and a comparison with NVIDIA's strateg...

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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 Solomou

14 Feb 2025
59m
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This podcast features an interview with Solly Solomou, founder and CEO of LADbible, discussing his company's journey from a small office above a printing shop to a publicly traded digital media company. The conversation covers his early entrepreneurial endeavors, the acquisition of LADbible, expansion strategies (incl...

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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 @ Monzo

13 Feb 2025
56m
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This interview podcast features Harry Stebbings interviewing TS Anil, CEO of Monzo Bank, about the bank's remarkable turnaround. The conversation begins with Anil's reasons for taking on the challenge of leading Monzo during a period of significant financial and operational difficulties, including a 40% down round and...

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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 @ Odoo

12 Feb 2025
1h 15m
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This podcast interviews Fabien Pinckaers, founder and CEO of Odoo, a Belgian business management software company with $650 million ARR. The conversation covers Odoo's unconventional growth strategy, including bootstrapping, pivoting from open-source to open-core, and a unique management style that eschews traditional...

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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 CEO

10 Feb 2025
55m
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This 20VC podcast episode features an interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, discussing the challenges and opportunities in the AI landscape. The conversation covers career advice for young professionals entering the workforce, the impact of AI on various professions (including software engineering), and ...

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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 Tolkin

07 Feb 2025
44m
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This podcast episode interviews Brian Tolkin, Head of Product at Opendoor, about his product leadership experiences at Uber and Opendoor. The conversation covers key lessons from launching Uber Pool in China, including the importance of understanding underlying infrastructure (like mapping data) and adapting to cultur...

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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 Cap

05 Feb 2025
1h 2m
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This podcast features an interview with Max Levchin, founder of Affirm and co-founder of PayPal, focusing on his management philosophy and experiences. The conversation covers topics such as hiring strategies (prioritizing "extreme" personalities with caveats), the importance of post-mortem analysis for learning from ...

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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 Ting

30 Jan 2025
1h 6m
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This interview podcast features Harry Stebbings speaking with Wayne Ting, CEO of Lime, a micromobility company. The conversation begins with Ting's experiences at Uber and transitions to his time at Lime, focusing on the challenges of turning around a financially struggling company. Key aspects discussed include impr...

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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 @ Groq

30 Jan 2025
55m
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This interview podcast focuses on analyzing DeepSeek, a new Chinese large language model (LLM), and its implications for the AI industry. The discussion begins with an overview of DeepSeek's capabilities and its surprisingly low training cost, then delves into the technical aspects of its development, particularly its...

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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 @ Harness

24 Jan 2025
1h 8m
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This interview podcast features Harry Stebbings interviewing Carlos Delatorre, CRO at Harness, about sales strategies for early-stage companies. The conversation covers topics such as effective sales rep recruitment, the importance of pipeline generation (including a detailed description of "Pipeline Generation Tuesda...

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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 @ Hebbia

22 Jan 2025
1h 6m
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This interview podcast features Harry Stebbings interviewing George Sivulka, founder of Hebbia, an AI company. The conversation begins with Sivulka discussing his unconventional childhood and the three common backgrounds he observes among successful founders (messed-up childhood, being gay, or being adopted). The bul...

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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 Kanji

20 Jan 2025
1h 17m
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This interview podcast features Harry Stebbings interviewing Hussein Kanji, founder and managing partner of Hoxton Ventures, a leading European early-stage seed firm. The conversation centers on Kanji's venture capital investment strategies, focusing on his approach to fundraising, portfolio construction, and navigati...

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