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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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AGENDA:

03:48 Founder of the Year 2025

06:58 Product of the Year

10:05 Fund of the Year

20:52 Breakout Companies of 2025: Who Made the Biggest Impact?

26:57 Biggest Surprises of 2025

32:57 Predictions for 2026: Top Performing Tech Stocks ... more

Gérald Marolf is the Chief Product Officer at On Running. Gérald oversees the full range of On's shoes, apparel and accessories to make sure each delivers performance, comfort and style. Before On, Gérald spent over a decade building consumer brands ... more

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03:32 Lightspeed's $9 Billion Fundraise

05:20 The Impact of Mega Funds on Seed VCs

10:09 The Supercycle of Growth and Late-Stage Investments

13:06 Disney Invests $1BN into OpenAI and What It Means

23:19 Oracle Hit Hard: Is Now the T... more

David George is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's Growth investing team. His team has backed many of the defining companies of this era, including Databricks, Figma, Stripe, SpaceX, Anduril, and OpenAI, and is now in... more

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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
John McMahon
Widely regarded as one of the greatest enterprise software sales leaders of all time and former Chief Revenue Officer at five public software companies
Episode: 20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
Maor Shlomo
Co-founder of Base44
Base44
Episode: 20VC: Base44's Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS and Salesforce | Why it is BS that Vibe Coding Platforms Do Not Have Defensibility and Bad Margins | Why He Worries About Google, Not Replit and Lovable | Why Long Anthropic, Not OpenAI?
Tom Tungus
Venture capitalist known for insights on tech investments.
Episode: 20VC: Cursor Raises $2.3BN: Who Wins the Coding War | Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: Analysed | Why Venture Capital Will Hit $1TRN and the Opening of Retail | Why Stripe and the Best Companies Will Never Go Public
Carl Rivera
Chief Design Officer at Shopify, previously founded Tictail
Shopify
Episode: 20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
David Cahn
Partner at Sequoia Capital and one of the world's leading AI investors
Sequoia Capital
Episode: 20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? | The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses | How to Analyse Margins and Growth Rates in a World of AI

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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.

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 1.9k ratings
  • 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 Kingdom2 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 States3 months ago
  • Simply the best

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

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Rezzz27
    Indonesia3 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 Kingdom4 months ago
  • Good content but too much clickbait

    The content and guests are good, but the episode titles are just so overly click-baity. It makes it hard to share these episodes widely and be taken seriously.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    _D0_
    Australia4 months ago

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20VC's Big Fat Quiz of the Year: Founder, Fund and Breakout Company of 2025 | Predictions for 2026: The Company to Buy, The Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win 2026 and The Tailwinds NVIDIA Will Face
Q: What companies are speculated to go public in 2026?
SpaceX is predicted to go public first, followed by Canva and Databricks, with Anthropic potentially also making their IPO.
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
Q: What do you think most people don't see about the future of sports products?
Consumers often overlook that sportswear is only beginning to express its full potential in everyday life.
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
Q: When did you realize you first loved the craft of product?
My love for product started with perfume, as it became part of the consumer experience activating emotions.
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?
Q: Can the incumbent acquire innovation before the startup acquires distribution?
This is not the issue because they can acquire innovation if they can push it through.

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