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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: Mercor CPO on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs | Why Large Enterprise is Scared to Partner with Frontier Labs | Why Small Specialised Models is the Future with Osvald Nitski

Osvald Nitski is the Chief Product Officer at Mercor, the AI-training and expert-data marketplace powering frontier-model development. Mercor last raised a $350 million Series C at a $10 billion valuation, and is reportedly in discussions for a new r... more

Yesterday • 1 hr

20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Threatened by Kimi? | Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | Should Openrouter Sell & Value in the Routing Layer? | Stripe Buying Paypal: What You Need to Know

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00:04 China's Kimi and Qwen Put Frontier AI on Notice00:08 Washington Debates Whether Chinese AI Models Should Be Banned 00:17 Can America Build a Profitable Open-Weight AI Champion? 00:21 OpenRouter's Moment: Is This the Perfect Time to Se... more

23 Jul 2026 • 1 hr 23 min • Most popular

20VC: Are OpenAI and Anthropic Overvalued? The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10x And Usage Will Explode 100x | The Future Is Not One AGI; It's Millions of Specialised Models with Lin Qiao, Founder and CEO @ Fireworks

Lin Qiao is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, the leading specialized intelligence and AI inference platform that last week raised $1.5BN at a whopping $17BN valuation. With just 200 people, the company has hit $1BN in ARR and expects to hit $2... more

20 Jul 2026 • 1 hr 17 min • Popular

20VC: $5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred Turner

Fred Turner is the Founder and CEO @ Curative, one of the wildest stories in tech. Fred scaled a COVID testing business from $0 to $5BN in revenue and took the team from 7 to 7,000 employees in just 9 months. They did over 206,000 COVID tests in a si... more

18 Jul 2026 • 1 hr 27 min

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Mike Mignano

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Union Square Ventures (USV)

Episode: 20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV

Clay Bavor

Co-Founder of Sierra, former Google executive

Sierra

Episode: 20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra

Rory O'Driscoll

Venture capitalist and co-host guest

[confidently inferred: VC partner]

Episode: 20VC: Dario and Anthropic Declare War on Open-Source | Coinbase Slash AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40BN Valuation and Impending IPO | Bending Spoons: Smartest IPO of 2026 and the Year for SaaS Roll-Ups

Jason Lemkin

Founder and VC, expert on SaaS and startup funding

SaaS-focused investor

KR Sridhar

Founder and CEO of Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy

Episode: 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar

Paul Erlanger

CEO and co-founder of FOMO

FOMO

Episode: 20VC: How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong | Why 1-1s are BS and What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Equity | Why Taste Beats AI But How AI Kills Org Charts with Paul Erlanger, CEO @ fomo

Nikesh Arora

CEO of Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Episode: 20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence

Ryan Peterson

Founder of Flexport

Flexport

Episode: 20VC: Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud | Why Revenge and Patriotism are the Best Founder Traits | Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask | The Wild Story of Raising $1BN from Masa Son in an Hour Long Meeting with Ryan Peterson, Founder @ Flexport

Everett Randall

GP at Benchmark

Benchmark

Episode: 20VC: SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN | Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix and Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN and The Case for Sovereign Models | Fin Acquired by Salesforce for $3.6BN

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Harry Stebbings

Host of The Twenty Minute VC; known for interviewing VCs and founders with a focus on practical startup and investment insights.

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 2k ratings

Interesting listens
Thanks for solid biztech insights
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SimpleReviewYes?
United States3 months ago
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 Kingdom5 months 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 States6 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 Kingdom9 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 States9 months ago

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20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra

Q: How do you approach board meetings and governance given rapid AI changes?

We use six-week cadences with concise board memos rather than decks, publish six-to-ten-page memos in advance, and involve board members in challenging us to sharpen our thinking, with a focus on clear, measurable milestones.

Q: Did you ever consider training your own models instead of relying on open or frontier models?

We briefly considered it but concluded the capital and ongoing expense of creating a highly perishable bag of floating point numbers didn't make sense for most companies; we chose to leverage labs and open weights and focus on fine-tuning and deployment.

Q: What was the single biggest takeaway from your time at Google that you brought to Sierra?

The willingness to invest deeply down the technology stack to build the service and product you want, including building custom architectures and even data centers when necessary, while leveraging open-source and off-the-shelf components where possible.

20VC: Who Wins the Model War: OpenAI, Anthropic or Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning | Labour Displacement Fears are BS & Overblown | From Physicist to Sequoia Founder with Matan Grinberg, Founder @ Factory

Q: Is the race toward frontier models sustainable, or should companies look more to open models as a counterbalance?

Open models provide a crucial counterbalance, enabling cost-quality-speed trade-offs and preventing lock-in; enterprises will likely adopt a mix, routing tasks to the most appropriate model for the use case.

Q: How should enterprises think about resource allocation between tokens, dollars, and headcount?

Focus on the core business outputs and outcomes, not just features; allocate resources to the activities that move the needle on key metrics like revenue, customer satisfaction, or market share, using tokens where they maximize impact.

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The show centers on early-stage investing, venture capital dynamics, and startup growth, featuring interviews with renowned VCs and founders who share practical playbooks, market views, and behind-the-scenes stories from fundraising, product, and GTM. Across episodes, topics like AI-enabled businesses, enterprise software, growth strategies, and the realities of scaling fast in competitive markets emerge repeatedly, often with candid takes on valuation, exits, and industry shifts. Notable strengths include a high-caliber guest list spanning founders and investors, a focus on actionable mentorship lessons, and a willingness to explore both macro trends and micro tactics that founders can apply immediately. The format frequently blends sharp ... more

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