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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: Cohere's Chief Scientist on Why Scaling Laws Will Continue | Whether You Can Buy Success in AI with Talent Acquisitions | The Future of Synthetic Data & What It Means for Models | Why AI Coding is Akin to Image Generation in 2015 with Joelle Pineau

03 Nov 2025
57m
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Harry Stebbings interviews Joelle Pineau, Chief Scientist at Cohere, about the current state and future directions of AI. They discuss reinforcement learning's inefficiencies and potential, the economics and challenges of capital-efficient AI, and the balance between compute, data, and algorithms. Joelle shares her exp...

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20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable

31 Oct 2025
1h 31m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Tim Ferriss, delving into Ferriss's strategies for maintaining authenticity while navigating a public persona. They discuss the dangers of chasing sensationalism and vanity metrics, emphasizing the importance of focusing on key metrics aligned with core values. Ferris...

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20VC: a16z Raises $10BN in New Funds | Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation | OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses | Why IRR is a BS Metric and Three Ways to Win in VC Today

30 Oct 2025
1h 24m
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The podcast episode features a discussion on various topics including the restructuring of OpenAI, winners and losers in the deal, and the potential for a retail IPO. The conversation also covers Andreessen Horowitz's new funds, the investment in Mercor, and Ramp's fundraising activities. Additionally, the hosts analyz...

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20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? | The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses | How to Analyse Margins and Growth Rates in a World of AI

27 Oct 2025
1h 14m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews David Cahn, a partner at Sequoia Capital, about the current state of AI, reflecting on past predictions and future expectations. Cahn discusses the AI bubble, the importance of physical infrastructure, and the shift from compute production to consumption. He also touc...

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20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao

24 Oct 2025
1h 16m
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In this episode of 20 Growth, Harry Stebbings interviews Sandy Diao, a growth leader who has scaled products to millions of users at companies like Descript, Meta, and Pinterest. Sandy shares her journey into growth, emphasizing the importance of understanding customer context alongside data when forming growth hypothe...

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20VC: Why VC Today is Worse Than 2021 | Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad Investment Today | Why We Are Deluding Ourselves on Growth Expectations | Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation | Benchmark Adds Their Newest General Partner

23 Oct 2025
1h 28m
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This episode of 20VC features Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discussing a range of topics including Everett Randall joining Benchmark, Revolut's latest funding round, and OpenAI allowing erotica. The panel debates the merits of investing in AI, TAM exhaustion, and the capital intensity required to c...

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20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation | Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On | Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky | Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions: What Works & What Doesn't

20 Oct 2025
1h 15m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Alex Bouaziz, the founder of Deel, a $17 billion global payroll company. Alex announces Deel's latest $300 million fundraise led by Ribbit, Andreessen, and Co2. They discuss Deel's growth, profitability, and aggressive M&A strategy, including 13 acquisitions. Alex add...

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20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp

17 Oct 2025
1h 13m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, a next-generation developer terminal. Zach shares insights from his experience rewriting Google Sheets, discusses the current state of talent and innovation at Google, and compares AI models like Gemini, Claude, and GPT. The conver...

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20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder | Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M | Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI

16 Oct 2025
1h 19m
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This episode of 20VC features Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, and Roger Ehrenberg discussing various topics in the venture capital and tech industries. They analyze Industry Ventures' acquisition by Goldman Sachs, debate the implications of Andrew Tulloch leaving Thinking Machines to join Meta, and exam...

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20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with Mike Cannon-Brookes

13 Oct 2025
1h 3m
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Harry Stebbings interviews Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO of Atlassian, discussing his experiences as a co-CEO with Scott Farquhar, the transition to becoming a solo CEO, and his perspective on the current AI landscape. They delve into Atlassian's approach to AI, the importance of design, and the future of sof...

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20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan

10 Oct 2025
1h 2m
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Harry Stebbings interviews Chris Degnan, former CRO of Snowflake, about building a world-class go-to-market organization. Degnan shares insights on aligning sales and marketing, the importance of founder-led sales, and how to hire and evaluate sales leaders. He emphasizes the need for sales teams to generate their own ...

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20VC: OpenAI's Multi $BN Deal with AMD | Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds | Does King Making Really Work in Venture Capital: Harvey vs Legora | Chamath is Back: The SPAC is Back

09 Oct 2025
1h 24m
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This episode of 20VC features a discussion on recent events and trends in the tech and venture capital world. The panel analyzes OpenAI's partnership with AMD, including the implications of OpenAI potentially acquiring a stake in AMD, and contrasts it with NVIDIA's relationship with OpenAI. They delve into the announce...

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20VC: Cerebras CEO on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO | NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Worried About Growth | Concentration of Value in Mag7: Will the AI Train Come to a Halt | Can the US Supply the Energy for AI with Andrew Feldman

06 Oct 2025
1h 4m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras, about the current state and future of AI compute. They discuss Cerebras' recent $1.1 billion Series G round, the dynamics of the AI chip market, and the challenges of planning in such a rapidly evolving environment. Feldman shares his ...

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20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky

03 Oct 2025
1h 0m
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In this episode of 20 Growth, Harry Stebbings interviews Ketty Slonimsky, Chief Growth Officer at Palta, about growth strategies, particularly in the context of D2C mobile subscription health tech. Slonimsky discusses her career path into growth, defining it as a broad discipline encompassing user acquisition, product ...

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20VC: Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World | Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy | Klarna, Figma, Stubhub, all Down: Are Public Markets Turning? | FiveTran and DBT: Is the Wave of Consolidation About to Begin?

02 Oct 2025
1h 16m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss current trends and challenges in the venture capital and tech industries. They analyze the burn multiple as a metric for evaluating companies, especially in the context of AI-native businesses, and debate its reliability given the volat...

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20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips | NVIDIA Will Be Worth $10TRN | How to Solve the Energy Required for AI... Nuclear | Why China is Behind the US in the Race for AGI with Jonathan Ross, Groq Founder

29 Sep 2025
1h 21m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Jonathan Ross, founder and CEO of Groq, about the current state of the AI market, compute demand, and the future of AI hardware. Jonathan discusses the economic incentives driving AI investment, the importance of speed in AI applications, and the challenges of buildin...

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20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson

26 Sep 2025
54m
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In this episode of 20 Product, Harry Stebbings interviews James Gibson, head of Revolut Business, about building successful products and teams. Gibson shares his career journey, emphasizing the value of consulting early on and the importance of raw skills over frameworks in product roles. He discusses Revolut's hiring ...

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20VC: NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead | Navan Files to go Public & Notion Hits $500M ARR | The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US

25 Sep 2025
1h 19m
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This episode of 20VC features Harry Stebbings, Elad Gil, and Speaker 1 discussing current trends and news in venture capital and the tech industry. Key topics include NVIDIA's investment in OpenAI and its implications, the potential for an AI monopoly, the concentration of VC funding, and the state of the IPO market wi...

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20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation

22 Sep 2025
1h 27m
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In this episode of 20VC, Harry Stebbings interviews Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst, about the future of venture capital, labor, and geopolitics. Hemant discusses GC's aspiration to be the best seed firm, the challenges of scaling venture capital, and the importance of focusing on founder relationships. He share...

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20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon

19 Sep 2025
59m
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In this episode of The Memo, Harry Stebbings interviews Jesse Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Decagon, a conversational AI platform for customer experience. They discuss Jesse's background as an Olympiad mathematician and how that mindset translates to entrepreneurship. Jesse shares insights from his first company, Loki, ...

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