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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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20VC: Inside Anduril's $20BN Army Contract & Why Anduril Must Go Public | Why 99% of Drone Companies Will Die | Why There is Never an Ethical Question of How Anduril Products are Used with Matthew Steckman, President @ Anduril

Matthew Steckman is the President and Chief Business Officer of Anduril. Matt played a central role in securing the $20BN contract Anduril just won with the US military. Prior to Anduril, Matt served as Chief Revenue Officer for Zipline. Before Zipli... more

23 Mar 2026 • 53 min

20Sales: Inside Figma's $1BN ARR Revenue Machine | Why We Do Not Have Customer Success or SDRs | Why I Do Not Believe in Sales Quotas with Shaunt Voskanian, CRO @ Figma

Shaunt Voskanian is the CRO @ Figma, where he has scaled the sales machine to over $1BN in ARR and over 400 people. Prior to Figma, Shaunt was Senior VP of Global Sales at Datadog where he scaled the revenue org to $1BN in ARR.

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04:33 - ... more

21 Mar 2026 • 1 hr 2 min

20VC: The Return of Travis Kalanick: Uber Would Be $1TRN Today With Him | NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC | Anduril Lands $20BN Army Contract | Adobe CEO Shock Exit: The Dominos Falling

AGENDA:

04:02 NVIDIA's GTC: What You Need to Know

11:39 Meta's 20% Layoffs & Atlassian Lets Go of 1,600

21:42 How to Test AI Fluency in Employees

30:59 Anduril Lands $20BN Army Contract

46:46 Travis Kalanick Returns With Atoms

49:55 If Tr... more

19 Mar 2026 • 1 hr 15 min

20VC: The 8 Moats of Enduring Software Companies: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI | Why Dropouts are "AI Maxing" the World & Remote Early-Stage Companies are Dying with Gokul Rajaram

Gokul Rajaram is one of the greatest operators turned investors of the last 2 decades. He is trusted as the go to advisor for the greatest founders in the world. Today he serves as a Board Director at three public companies: Coinbase, Pinterest and T... more

16 Mar 2026 • 1 hr 18 min

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Recent Guests

Matthew Steckman

President and Chief Business Officer, Anduril

Anduril

Episode: 20VC: Inside Anduril's $20BN Army Contract & Why Anduril Must Go Public | Why 99% of Drone Companies Will Die | Why There is Never an Ethical Question of How Anduril Products are Used with Matthew Steckman, President @ Anduril

Shaunt Voskanian

CRO at Figma

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Episode: 20Sales: Inside Figma's $1BN ARR Revenue Machine | Why We Do Not Have Customer Success or SDRs | Why I Do Not Believe in Sales Quotas with Shaunt Voskanian, CRO @ Figma

Gokul Rajaram

Investor and founder involved with Marathon; board member at public companies including Coinbase, Pinterest, The Trade Desk

Marathon; Board member at Coinbase, Pinterest, The Trade Desk

Episode: 20VC: The 8 Moats of Enduring Software Companies: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI | Why Dropouts are "AI Maxing" the World & Remote Early-Stage Companies are Dying with Gokul Rajaram

Elena Verna

Head of Growth at Lovable

Lovable

Episode: 20Growth: Inside Lovable's $400M ARR Growth Machine | How Lovable Does Product Launches | How Lovable Hacks Social To Make Posts Go Viral | How Lovable Makes Every Employee a Brand with Elena Verna

Rory O'Driscoll

Venture investor invited on episode

Episode: 20VC: Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins | The Ultimate Stock Picks: What to Buy | The Data Centre Arms Race: Is the Capex War Stalling | The Era of Public Company Deceleration is Dead

Jason Lemkin

Entrepreneur and investor invited on episode

Episode: 20VC: Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins | The Ultimate Stock Picks: What to Buy | The Data Centre Arms Race: Is the Capex War Stalling | The Era of Public Company Deceleration is Dead

Miles Clements

Accel partner, growth investing practice

Accel

Episode: 20VC: Inside Accel's $4BN Growth Investing Machine | Cursor is Dead is Total BS: Here is Why | What Missing Rippling and ElevenLabs Taught Us | Are $2BN-$10BN IPOs Dead | Why Now is a Great Time to be Thoma Bravo with Miles Clements

Eran Zinman

CEO of Monday.com

Monday.com

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Jerry Murdock

Co-founder of Insight Partners

Insight Partners

Episode: 20VC: Why Cursor is Dead | An AI Tsunami is Coming & You Need to Prepare | Systems of Record Become Valueless Databases with Agents | Is This The End of Tech Private Equity with Jerry Murdock, Co-Founder of Insight Partners

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Harry Stebbings

Host of The Twenty Minute VC, actively engaging with top industry leaders and entrepreneurs to shed light on the startup and venture capital space.

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 1.9k ratings

AI AI AI.. x100
I really enjoyed this show in the past but recently all the episodes are about AI. Normally, I would be interested in hearing different opinions about venture capital and AI but one of the hosts is so brainwashed by AI that the whole episodes are him scaremongering. Some of the takes are so wild that it sounds like listening to some science fiction audiobook. The interviews are better but I can’t really recommend.
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Please no AI
United Kingdoma month ago
. 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.
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Projomni78
United States2 months 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
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Delken101
United Kingdom5 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
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Mike Ambrosino
United States5 months ago
Simply the best
Most probably one of the best podcast in startup and investment area … love it!
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Rezzz27
Indonesia6 months ago

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20Sales: Inside Figma's $1BN ARR Revenue Machine | Why We Do Not Have Customer Success or SDRs | Why I Do Not Believe in Sales Quotas with Shaunt Voskanian, CRO @ Figma

Q: How do you determine quotas and incentive structure given your belief that quotas can be 'made up'?

Quotas exist, but the focus should be on purpose and the work to be done; aim for aggressive, rewarding quotas when the work is strategic, but remain flexible and grounded in actual field experience and performance framework based on behaviors and competencies.

20Sales: Inside Figma's $1BN ARR Revenue Machine | Why We Do Not Have Customer Success or SDRs | Why I Do Not Believe in Sales Quotas with Shaunt Voskanian, CRO @ Figma

Q: What piece of advice would you give to a founder with a PLG motion on intercept timing?

Intercept earlier than later is usually better, as long as you have a solid understanding of product signals and potential upgrade paths; it often takes a couple of iterations to convince the customer and close upgrades, so stay proactive.

20VC: Inside Accel's $4BN Growth Investing Machine | Cursor is Dead is Total BS: Here is Why | What Missing Rippling and ElevenLabs Taught Us | Are $2BN-$10BN IPOs Dead | Why Now is a Great Time to be Thoma Bravo with Miles Clements

Q: Now, I want to start with the core question that I think every investor is thinking about, which is how do we ascertain true value in an AI world where technology seems so transient and revenue seems so endurable?

There's a useful framework for evaluating AI companies: look at time to value and durability of the value. Different AI categories will have different deployment cycles and durability profiles, with some providing quick value (coding tools) and others taking longer to prove their ongoing impact (legal/accounting AI). The durable value—the lock-in—drives long-term growth.

20VC: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is BS | Why China Will Win the AI War | Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist and are Tourists | Why Stock-Based Comp is the Hidden Sin of the Valley with Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital

Q: Why do you think China could win the AI race?

China's advantages include power infrastructure, access to vast talent, resources, and a culture that accelerates scientific and technological development; this combination could yield faster progress in AI deployment and innovation relative to the West in certain areas.

Q: How do you think about liquidity and exits in a market with 'casinoized' public markets?

Liquidity windows open and close; to manage DPI, funds should prune positions and return capital to LPs through secondary sales and selective exits, while continuing to back entrepreneurs with potential for future public listings.

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