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

Harry Stebbings
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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 ... more

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Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads consumer and fintech investing at Series A. He serves on the boards of standout portfolio companies including Deel, Mosaic, Clutch, Titan, and HappyRobot and has led ear... more

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Oren Zeev
Prominent solo capitalist in Venture with over a billion dollars in AUM
Episode: 20VC: 50% of Funds Will Go Out of Business | Why Growth Expectations Today are BS and Will Not Last | Why Oren Zeev Takes $0 Management Fees But 30% Carry | Why GPs Should Not Tell LPs Their Strategy
Winston Weinberg
Co-founder and CEO of Harvey
Harvey
Episode: 20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg
Noam Lovinsky
CPO at Superhuman, formerly at Grammarly, with experience from Google and Facebook
Superhuman
Episode: 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
Alan Chang
Co-founder and CEO of Fuse Energy
Fuse Energy
Episode: 20VC: $0-$260M in Revenue in Three Years: How We Did It | You Need to Work Weekends to Win — Most Founders Aren't Ambitious Enough | The Revolut Playbook: Speed, Urgency, Extreme Ownership, and Zero Excuses with Alan Chang @ Fuse Energy
Matt Fitzpatrick
CEO of Invisible Technologies, previously a senior partner at McKinsey leading QuantumBlack Labs
Invisible Technologies
Episode: 20VC: Enterprises Will Not Adopt AI without Forward-Deployed Engineers | Who Wins the Data Labelling Race: How Does it Shake Out? | How Synthetic Data Threatens the Future of Human-Generated Data with Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies
Gérald Marolf
CPO at On Running
On Running
Episode: 20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf
David George
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz, leads the firm's growth investing
Andreessen Horowitz
Episode: 20VC: a16z's David George on How $BN Funds Can 5×, Do Margins & Revenue Matter in AI & the Most Controversial Bet at a16z
Raaz Herzberg
Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Product Strategy at Wiz
Wiz
Episode: 20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
Federico Simionato
Product lead at Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons
Episode: 20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato

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Harry Stebbings
Host of The Twenty Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews prominent venture capitalists and successful founders, providing insights into their experiences and strategies.

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 1.9k ratings
  • . Super bad.

    In the beginning, I used to think that 20 VC is an awesome podcast. Not anymore. Take for example, one of the most recent episodes with the fiverr CEO. No content, emotionally, bombastic, full of curses. Not much to learn. Just opinionated people who act like preteen kids… who needs that in 2025?

    Update Jan 2026: just getting worse and worse. All big money corporate. Forget 20vc.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Projomni78
    United States14 days ago
  • Remove Jason

    Like the show. Rory is great on the weekly market show. Lemkin is awful. Last 3 months all he says is AI replaces people. Guy runs an events business who’s website doesn’t even work🤦‍♂️ probably vibe codes it

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Delken101
    United Kingdom4 months ago
  • The best podcast in Venture by a mile

    The Episodes between Jason, Rory & Harry is the most important thing to listen to in tech every week in my opinion. They give multiple vantage points

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Mike Ambrosino
    United States4 months ago
  • Simply the best

    Most probably one of the best podcast in startup and investment area … love it!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Rezzz27
    Indonesia5 months ago
  • Terrific guests, poor questions

    Whoever int he team sources the guests is doing a terrific job. But the questions are always the exact same (‘what lesson did you learn at…’, ‘what was your childhood like?’, etc) and there is very little genuine dialogue. And the host seems more interested in talking about himself than understanding the guests. Which is a massive missed opportunity.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Simon RD
    United Kingdom5 months ago

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20VC: From Only OpenAI to Die-Hard Anthropic: The Downfall of OpenAI in Enterprise | Harvey vs Legora: Legal AI is a Winner Take All | $7M ARR in a Single Day and Raising $200M Across 3 Rounds with No Deck with Max Junestrand, CEO @ Legora
Q: What does Legora do just to set the scene for people that don't know?
Legora is the platform where legal work happens, offering various AI-driven tools to assist different types of lawyers in their work.
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
Q: How do you define happiness and fulfillment outside of financial success?
True happiness comes from personal connections and simple pleasures, not just financial achievements.
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
Q: What lesson could you share about ambition and vision?
You should not be afraid to have ambitious goals; breaking them down into achievable milestones is essential.

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