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

Harry Stebbings
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Openai
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic
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Product Management
NVIDIA
Uber
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Figma
China
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Hubspot
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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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00:00 $45B Floods into Anthropic from Google & Amazon

05:10 OpenAI Misses Growth Targets — Is This a Real Problem?

08:40 The Rise of AI Agents: Why Humans No Longer Pick Models

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Amjad Masad
Co-founder and CEO at Replit
Replit
Episode: 20Product: Replit CEO on Why Coding Models Are Plateauing | Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified: Will Incumbents Be Replaced? | Why IDEs Are Dead and Do PMs Survive the Next 3-5 Years with Amjad Masad
Aaron Levie
Founder and CEO of Box
Box
Episode: 20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box
Jake Paul
Public figure, investor, and creator
Anti Fund and Jake Paul Empire
Episode: 20VC: Jake Paul on Why Traditional VC is Toast and Attention is More Valuable Than Cash | Politics: Will Jake Paul Actually Run for President? | Inside the Payday of Fighting Anthony Joshua and Mike Tyson | with Geoffrey Wu, Co-Founder at Anti-Fund
Anj Midha
Founder of AMP, early investor in Anthropic, AI investor
AMP; Anthropic co-founder investor
Episode: 20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried
Carles Reina
CRO at ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Episode: 20Sales: ElevenLabs: Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota | How to Structure Sales Compensation Plans | Customer Success: 'Total BS' or Growth Engine? | Building an AI Sales Machine: What Tools & Tactics Must CROs Adopt Today with Carles Reina
Demis Hassabis
DeepMind
Episode: 20VC: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution | Why LLMs Will Not Commoditise & We Have Not Hit Scaling Laws | Bottlenecks in AI & The Energy Crisis Caused By AI | Whether AI Will Do More to Harm or Help Inequality
Andrew Dudum
Founder and CEO of Hims
Hims
Episode: 20VC: Hims & Hers: $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue: The Comeback | Why Being Public is 10x Better | The Death of the "Strategy" Hire | Why Performance Marketing is Worse than Brand Marketing with Andrew Dudum
Rory O'Driscoll
Venture capitalist, noted for deep AI and startup market insights
Accel/Founders Fund (contextual from discussion)
Episode: 20VC: Anthropic's $6BN Revenue Month | OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN | Manus Founders Trapped in China & The Billionaire Tax: Anyone Left in California?
Jason Lampkin
Venture investor and co-host contributor
Senior VC/Founder-focused investor
Episode: 20VC: Anthropic's $6BN Revenue Month | OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN | Manus Founders Trapped in China & The Billionaire Tax: Anyone Left in California?

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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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4.5 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 Kingdom2 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 States3 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 Kingdom7 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 States7 months ago
  • Simply the best

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

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Rezzz27
    Indonesia7 months ago

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20Product: Replit CEO on Why Coding Models Are Plateauing | Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified: Will Incumbents Be Replaced? | Why IDEs Are Dead and Do PMs Survive the Next 3-5 Years with Amjad Masad
Q: How do you balance model performance and cost today?
Performance remains the priority; if you chase cost at the expense of performance, you risk losing competitive advantage and market leadership, especially when customers are revenue-critical enterprise users.
20Sales: ElevenLabs: Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota | How to Structure Sales Compensation Plans | Customer Success: 'Total BS' or Growth Engine? | Building an AI Sales Machine: What Tools & Tactics Must CROs Adopt Today with Carles Reina
Q: Is outbound dead in this new world, or can it be effective with the right humans and tech?
Outbound isn't dead; it must be human-driven and AI-assisted, avoiding mass, impersonal outreach and instead focusing on personalized, contextual engagement.
20Sales: ElevenLabs: Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota | How to Structure Sales Compensation Plans | Customer Success: 'Total BS' or Growth Engine? | Building an AI Sales Machine: What Tools & Tactics Must CROs Adopt Today with Carles Reina
Q: How do you structure accelerators and pilot programs without distorting incentives?
Structure accelerators carefully, allocating percentages that reward continued selling after quota but avoid creating perverse incentives by overloading SPFs; pilots should be used strategically and not as a perpetual excuse to push products that don't add long-term value.
20Sales: ElevenLabs: Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota | How to Structure Sales Compensation Plans | Customer Success: 'Total BS' or Growth Engine? | Building an AI Sales Machine: What Tools & Tactics Must CROs Adopt Today with Carles Reina
Q: What do you think about the role of the CRO in an AI-first company?
The CRO should think about the revenues of tomorrow, embed AI in distribution, and design a GTM that scales beyond a single deal, balancing quick wins with long-term strategic bets.
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box
Q: What is the biggest change you anticipate in the next five years for Box and similar companies due to agents and AI?
AI-driven agents will multiply productivity by enabling cross-system workflows, shifting token and IT budgets to regular operating expenses, requiring organizations to redesign processes around agent-centric workflows rather than human-centric ones, and expanding the demand for engineering talent across industries.

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The podcast features insightful interviews with leading venture capitalists and successful founders, focusing on the intricate nuances of startup funding and investment strategies. Each episode typically encapsulates a mixture of high-profile guests sharing their expertise on venture capital trends, technology advancements, and business strategies. With a structured format, episodes are designed to deliver substantial value in a concise format, making them accessible for busy entrepreneurs and investors alike. Notably, the rich diversity of guests—from top VC firms to pioneering tech companies—provides listeners with a well-rounded perspective on the current investment landscape, offering practical advice while reflecting on their experienc... more

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