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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: Why VC is Distorting a Generation of SaaS Companies & With $900M in ARR and a Market Cap of $2.6BN is Lightspeed the Most Misunderstood Public Company with Dax Dasilva, Founder & CEO @ Lightspeed

09 Aug 2024
46m
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This podcast episode delves into Dax's journey with Lightspeed, highlighting the significance of product-market fit through customer engagement, the impact of bootstrapping, and the challenges of navigating the SaaS investment landscape. Dax emphasizes strategic growth and profitability, the importance of strong leader...

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20VC: How a Angel City Makes $31M per Season | How Sports Teams Can and Should Be Better Businesses | Why Every Sports Team Will Look Like a Media Agency and Founding The Most Valuable Women's Sports Team with Alexis Ohanian

07 Aug 2024
1h 14m
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This podcast episode delves into the transformative impact of private investment in the sports industry, highlighting Alexis's experiences with Angel City FC and his vision for a future where technology, storytelling, and grassroots engagement redefine team management and fan interaction, ultimately making women's spor...

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20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on AI's $600BN Question | Why the Data Centre is the Most Important Asset | Servers, Steel and Power: The Core Pillars Powering the Future of AI

05 Aug 2024
1h 13m
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This podcast episode delves into the complexities of artificial intelligence investment, evaluating whether current capital expenditures are justified by AI's potential, and highlighting the challenges faced by startups in a landscape dominated by large tech companies. Cahn emphasizes the need for continuous infrastruc...

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20Sales: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | Moving from SMB to Enterprise: How and When | Verticalised Sales Teams: Why They are a Gamechanger and How to Build Them with Ben Fiechtner, CRO @ Clari

02 Aug 2024
55m
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This podcast episode delves into the complex world of sales and persuasion, with Ben sharing invaluable insights on how to effectively communicate, build relationships, and understand client dynamics to achieve success in sales. By emphasizing the importance of authenticity, strategic decision-making, and cross-functio...

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20VC: Is More Compute the Answer to Model Performance | Why OpenAI Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken & Analysing Their Race for AGI | What Companies, AI Labs and Startups Get Wrong About AI with Ethan Mollick

31 Jul 2024
1h 8m
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This podcast episode delves into the multifaceted nature of AI's evolution, highlighting the implications of open-source models like Meta's Lama 3.1, the potential outcomes of AI development, and the critical need for clear policies and guidelines in fostering its adoption. Ethan discusses the significant knowledge gap...

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20VC: Twitter's Most Controversial VC Delian Asparouhov on Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | Why Western Europe Will Be Like the Third World | Why SaaS as an Industry Might Be Dead

29 Jul 2024
1h 15m
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This podcast episode features Delian, who shares invaluable insights on venture capital, the importance of statistical thinking, relationship building, and the evolving landscape of investing in Silicon Valley. Through his experiences and mentorship from Keith Rabois, he emphasizes the significance of having a clear vi...

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20Growth: How Transferwise Acquired Their First 5M Customers: The Two Types of Content All Companies Must Create, How to Crush Competition With Performance Marketing, What Growth Hacks Worked and Did Not with Nilan Peiris, CPO @ Wise

26 Jul 2024
48m
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This podcast episode delves into Wise's innovative approach to cross-border money transfers, emphasizing the importance of addressing customer pain points through transparent service delivery, effective marketing strategies, and a focus on autonomous team structures. Peiris illustrates how Wise differentiates itself in...

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This Week in SaaS: Should Wiz Have Accepted Google's $23BN Acquisition Offer, Crowdstrike: WTF Happens From Here: The Bull and the Bear Case & $1BN into Legal Tech in a Day with Clio and Harvey with Jason Lemkin

24 Jul 2024
50m
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This podcast episode delves into the multifaceted dynamics of the tech industry, focusing on Wiz's refusal of Google's $23 billion acquisition and its implications for potential market competition and antitrust scrutiny. The speakers explore the complexities of choosing between going public and acquisitions, highlighti...

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20VC: How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet | Investing Lessons from Roelof Botha & Peter Thiel | Why VC is Less Collaborative Than Ever and Great Companies Are Being Destroyed by Too Much Cash with Kevin Hartz @ A*

22 Jul 2024
1h 2m
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This podcast episode features Kevin Hartz, co-founder and GP of A-Star, as he navigates the complexities of venture capital, the importance of selecting resilient founding teams, and the critical role of mentorship in shaping one's investment philosophy. He reflects on the dangers of excess capital in the startup ecosy...

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20Product: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? The Top 5 Product Lessons in Scaling to 185M Monthly Active Users with Canva Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams

19 Jul 2024
49m
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This podcast episode explores the concept of social validity and the use of Pendo as a tool for building better digital experiences. It discusses the role of luck and skill in entrepreneurial success, the importance of creating high-quality products that excite users, and the challenges and opportunities in democratizi...

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20VC: Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins and How Does it Play Out | Battling Founder Mental Health and The Importance of Secondaries for Founders

17 Jul 2024
50m
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This podcast episode explores the importance of mental health, the significance of enduring work-related pressures, the value of making money early in one's entrepreneurial journey, the role of authentic leadership in running a company, the impact of bottlenecks on productivity and growth, the need for focus and priori...

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20VC: Why We Are in a Bubble & Now is Frothier Than 2021 | Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | Why Seed Pricing is Rational & Large Seed Rounds Have Less Risk | Why Many AI Apps Have BS Revenue & Are Not Sustainable with Saam Motamedi @ Greylock

15 Jul 2024
1h 6m
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This podcast episode explores various topics in the world of investing and technology. It discusses the challenges and distortions in AI investing, the role of OpenAI in the market, the future of SaaS companies, the potential impact of AI on Customer Relationship Management (CRM), pricing strategies in early-stage star...

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20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Hubspot from $0-$100M in ARR, The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise, How to do Channel Partnerships Right and How to Construct Sales Comp Plans Early On with Mark Roberge

12 Jul 2024
40m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges and strategies involved in building and managing a sales team in early-stage companies. The speaker shares valuable insights on assessing sales skills when hiring, the importance of deal size and role-playing during interviews, structuring compensation plans to align with co...

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20VC: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier: How to Build a Dominant Vertical SaaS Business, How to Master Going Into Enterprise, When & How to Launch Second Products with Ara Mahdessian, Co-Founder @ServiceTitan

10 Jul 2024
51m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of the speaker, who grew up in a war-torn environment and the challenges faced by their immigrant parents. It highlights the importance of honoring their parents' sacrifices and pursuing the American dream. The episode also discusses the speaker's experiences with different inv...

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20VC: The Sequoia Investment Process | Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha & Alfred Lin | Sequoia's Framework for Analysing Founders | The True Benefit of Having Sequoia on a Cap Table & Sequoia's Biggest Threat with Pat Grady

08 Jul 2024
1h 8m
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This podcast episode explores various topics related to personal success, venture capital, founder leadership, and investment strategies. The conversations delve into the complexities of measuring success and the importance of continuous improvement. They highlight the significance of founder market fit, visionary lead...

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20VC: Turning a $15M Investment in Monday into $1.5BN in Cash | The Strategy Behind a 37x DPI $45M Fund | The Three Step Process to Selling Positions that has Netted Top Percentile Returns with Avi Eyal, Co-Founder @ Entrée Capital

03 Jul 2024
58m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of a serial entrepreneur, discussing topics such as childhood hardships, luck versus skill in achieving success, portfolio construction, the challenges of high-priced deals, the concept of Total Addressable Market (TAM), building and scaling a successful business, investment st...

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20VC: LLMs Are Reaching a Stage of Diminishing Returns: What is the Next S Curve | The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | How AI Changes the Future of War & How Agents Will Reshape Society with Matt Clifford @ EF

01 Jul 2024
1h 2m
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This podcast episode explores the significance of Cooley as a global law firm specializing in startups and venture capital. It discusses the current state of AI and the diminishing returns of scaling compute and data for language models. The concept of the flattening of the hype cycle in new technologies, including aut...

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20VC: Raising $126M Across 3 Rounds in Just 6 Months, Being the Youngest Founder of a Unicorn Company | But Everything Was Not as it Seemed: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires with Vise's Samir Vasavada

28 Jun 2024
59m
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This podcast episode follows the journey of the speaker's entrepreneurial venture, highlighting the crucial role of early support and strategic investments in their success. It delves into their encounter with renowned venture capital firms, the challenges of scaling and maintaining discipline, the importance of making...

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20VC: Klaviyo's Andrew Bialecki on Going Public in an IPO Winter, Is Klaviyo Under-Priced in Public Markets and Why, Why Every VC Turned Klaviyo Down in the Early Days & How Shopify's Partnership Changed the Game

26 Jun 2024
51m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of Klaviyo, a software company that started with a focus on deep intellectual thinking and fast record retrieval. The founders aimed to level the playing field in marketing by creating a product accessible to all and ensuring that the best products win. They discuss the challen...

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20VC: Why Foundation Model Performance is Not Diminishing But Models Are Commoditising, Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space and Models Will Enter the Chip Space & The Right Business Model for AI Software with David Luan, Co-Founder @ Adept

24 Jun 2024
56m
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This podcast episode explores the transformative role of deep learning, particularly the impact of the transformer model, in the field of AI. It discusses the importance of collaboration, curiosity-driven exploration, and focusing on real-world problems. The episode also highlights the challenges of model scaling, reas...

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