20VC
Searchable summaries of 20VC episodes on venture capital, startups, and operator lessons.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead?
Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die | Aaron Levie
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI
How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum
Marc Andreessen on The Future of VC: Will a16z Go Public & Why Introspection is Dangerous?
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing?
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero?
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won!
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble?
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game
Carvana CEO & Co-Founder, Ernest Garcia: Building a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247
