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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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 20, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 17, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 14, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 13, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 12, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 10, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 7, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 5, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 30, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 30, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 24, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 22, 2025
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
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 20, 2025
20VC: Monday.com: Scaling from $6M to $120M in ARR in 3 Years | How Monday Have Built the Best Performance Marketing Engine in SaaS | Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product; The Biggest Lessons and Mistakes with Eran Zinman
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 17, 2025
20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 15, 2025
20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 13, 2025
20VC: The Future of Foundation Models | The Future of AI Consumer Apps and Why OpenAI Did a Disservice to Them | The Future of Music: Spotify vs YouTube & Spotify vs TikTok: What Happens with Mikey Shulman @ Suno
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 10, 2025
20VC: Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets: From $60BN to $400M and Back to $40BN | The Biggest Opportunities, Mistakes and Challenges Ahead for One of the Public Market's Only 100x Investments
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 8, 2025
20VC: How To Do a 10x Seed Fund in 2025 | Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups an Founders | Lessons from Losing Billions Missing Airbnb and Pinterest & Investing Lessons from Charlie Munger with Mike Maples @ Floodgate
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jan 6, 2025
20Sales: Rippling's CRO on Why Founders Should Not Create Sales Playbooks | Why Discounting is BS and How to Create Urgency in Deals | The Biggest Lessons on Pricing and How to Win the Pricing Game with Matt Plank
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 20, 2024
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 18, 2024
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 16, 2024
20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 13, 2024
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 11, 2024
20VC: Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff on The Future of LLMs | The Future of Agents | The Future of Labour | Management Lessons from Steve Jobs
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 9, 2024
20VC: From Unsexy Startup to $1.8BN Acquisition | Why VCs and Founders are Fundamentally Misaligned | Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | Lessons from Josh Kushner and Marc Andreesen | Zac Bookman, OpenGov
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 6, 2024
20VC: Revolut Founder Nik Storonsky on When and Where Revolut Will IPO & What Revolut Need to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 4, 2024
20VC: Grindr: The Most Insane Story in Startups | How the Chinese Bought and Lost Grindr | The Successful IPO with $300M Revenues and 40% EBITDA Margins | How Grindr Built a Free Cash Flow Machine
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Dec 4, 2024
20Product: Is an AI Winter Approaching | The Future of AI Software Development: What is Real & What is BS | OpenAI: WTF is Going on & How Far Into Application Layer Do They Go | The Future Role of Software Engineers with Guy Podjarny
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 29, 2024
20VC: Why Price Sensitivity is BS | Why "Portfolios" are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy | Why the Best Investment Never Happen in "Fundraising Rounds" | What Europe Needs to do to Become a Superpower Again | Klaus Hommels, Lakestar
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 27, 2024
20VC: Discord's Jason Citron on Why Everything We are Taught About Hiring & Management is BS | Do Richer Founders & Gamer Founders Make Better Founders? | Never Before Told Moments Behind Scaling to 200M Users
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 25, 2024
20Sales: What I Learned Scaling Datadog from $60M to $1BN in ARR | How to do Outbound in 2024 | Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading with Dan Fougere
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 22, 2024
20VC: Turning $16.5M into $2.1BN; Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History: UiPath | Why VC is Not Being Commoditised | Why Price Does Not Matter | Lessons on Loss Ratio, Selling and Signalling with Cem Sertoglu
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 20, 2024
20VC Alain De Botton on Why Companies Are Not Families | Why Status is Making You Miserable | Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail | Why We Are Richer Yet More Anxious Than Ever & Why You Should Not Always "Be Yourself"
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 18, 2024
20Growth: Inside Perplexity's Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | Why Paid Acquisition is a Drug and Brand Marketing is BS | The Good, Bad and Ugly of A/B Tests and Why Micro-Optimisations are Under-Rated with Raman Malik
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 15, 2024
20VC: Bolt; The Most Insane Story in Startups | Turning a $5K Loan into an $8BN Company | Why Every VC Turned Down One of Europe's Biggest Winners | Competing with Uber & The Future of Micromobility and Self-Driving
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 13, 2024
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 11, 2024
20VC: Sam Altman on The Trajectory of Model Capability Improvements: Will Scaling Laws Continue | Semi-Conductor Supply Chains | What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI and Where is Opportunity
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 4, 2024
20VC: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Founder Mode | Building 8x $100M Revenue Lines | Lessons from Raising $5BN and the Gamestop Saga | The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Wealth Management and Home Ownership
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 1, 2024
20VC: Linear's Karri Saarinen How to be Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | How to Fundraise with Leverage | How to Select Investors and How to Give Them Homework in the Raise Process & Growth Lessons from Airbnb and Coinbase
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 30, 2024
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 28, 2024
20VC: The Truth About Multi-Stage Firms; Why Portfolio Services are for VCs not Founders | Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | Why Reserves are Bad for Founders & How Boutique Firms Will Win with Mark Goldberg @ Chemistry
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 25, 2024
20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Slack from $6M to $1BN in ARR | How to Build a Customer Success Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | The Framework to Hire All Sales Reps: Take-Home Assignments, Hiring Panels and more with AJ Tennant @ Glean
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 23, 2024
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on Investing Lessons from Leading Rounds in Figma, Slack and Rippling | Lessons Building a Generational Defining Firm with Kleiner Perkins | AI: Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 21, 2024
20Growth: Revolut's Chief Growth Officer on The Growth Playbook Revolut Used to Scale to $2.2BN in Revenue | How Revolut Launch and Grow Products | Why the Best PMs Don't Need A/B Tests & Why CAC is a BS Metric with Antoine Le Nel
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 18, 2024
20VC: Why Founder Mode is Dangerous & Could Encourage Bad Behaviour | Why Fundraising is a Waste of Time & OKRs are BS | Why Angel Investing is Bad for Founders to Do and the VC Model is on it's Last Legs with Zach Perret @ Plaid
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 16, 2024
20VC: Investing Lessons from FC Seeding Uber, Airtable and Coupang | Why Pro Rata is the Original Sin in VC | Why Liquidity Has Died in 2024 | Why LPs are Pissed with VCs | The Hard Truth About Seed Fund Economics with David Frankel @ Founder Collective
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 14, 2024
20VC: Why Most AI Investments Will Do Worse than the S&P 500 | Why Early Stage VC is F******* | The Danger of Kamala Harris and Why Trump and Vance are Best | Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control with Eoghan McCabe @ Intercom
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 11, 2024
20VC: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta | How to Play AI in the Public Markets | China & Europe: Is the Future Bleak | The Opportunity for Crossover Funds with Jeff Wang, Managing Partner @ SCGE
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 9, 2024
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Oct 7, 2024