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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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Chris Degnan is the former Chief Revenue Officer at Snowflake, where he was instrumental in scaling the company from less than $1M in ARR to over $3B in annual revenue. He joined as the first sales hires and built Snowflake’s go-to-market engine from... more

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Andrew Feldman is Co-Founder & CEO of Cerebras, building the world's fastest AI inference and training. Cerebras recently closed a $1.1BN Series G round at an $8.1 billion valuation, backed by top names including Fidelity, Atreides, Tiger Global, Val... more

Ketty Slonimsky is Chief Growth Officer at Palta, the platform behind apps like Flo (the #1 female health app with 77M+ MAU), Simple, and Zing AI, where she leads a centralized growth function across the portfolio. She was previously first VP Product... more

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Ketty Slonimsky
Chief Growth Officer at Palta, a venture builder that creates and scales apps.
Palta
Episode: 20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
James Gibson
Head of Revolut Business
Revolut
Episode: 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Jesse Zhang
Co-founder and CEO of Decagon, conversational AI platform for customer experience.
Decagon
Episode: 20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
Amit Bendov
Co-founder and CEO of Gong, the leading AI sales platform
Gong
Episode: 20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
Cliff Obrecht
Co-founder of Canva
Canva
Episode: 20VC: Anthropic Raises $13BN | Why Canva Will Not Direct List | OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock | Lovable Raising at $4BN + Vercel at $9BN: Justified or Not | Quarterly Results from SNOW, Mongo, ZOOM and more
Nick Frosst
Canadian AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder of Cohere, with extensive experience in AI and enterprise applications.
Cohere
Episode: 20VC: Cohere Founder on How Cohere Compete with OpenAI and Anthropic $BNs | Why Counties Should Fund Their Own Models & the Need for Model Sovereignty | How Sam Altman Has Done a Disservice to AI with Nick Frosst
Jason James
Co-founder of Tezi, and former VP of Product at Instacart
Tezi
Episode: 20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
Byron Deeter
One of the best SaaS and cloud investors of the last decade with multiple unicorn investments and companies that have gone public.
Bessemer Venture Partners
Episode: 20VC: Do Margins Matter in AI? | Is Defensibility Gone For Good? | Is Vertical SaaS Dead in a World of AI | What SaaS Rules Are BS and No Longer Apply in a World of AI | The Future of Venture: Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS with Byron Deeter
Max Junestrand
Co-founder and CEO of Legora
Legora
Episode: 20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand

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Harry Stebbings
Host known for engaging conversations with leading figures in venture capital and entrepreneurship, bringing out actionable insights and personal stories from guests.

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 1.8k ratings
  • Simply the best

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

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    5
    Rezzz27
    Indonesia16 days 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.

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    3
    Simon RD
    United Kingdoma month 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.

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    _D0_
    Australiaa month ago
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    islalayla04
    2 months ago
  • Six stars

    Great team effort. I’ve loved listening to this podcast with such great guests too.

    It’s a refreshing break from the US politics centric led podcasts from other tech people.

    Thank you.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    FourstarReviewer
    United States2 months ago

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20VC: Cerebras CEO on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO | NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Worried About Growth | Concentration of Value in Mag7: Will the AI Train Come to a Halt | Can the US Supply the Energy for AI with Andrew Feldman
Q: Can you just talk to me why it's important, why now and what it means for the company?
Feldman emphasizes that the fundraising is critical for scaling manufacturing and addressing pressing市場 opportunities in AI, noting the confidence that leading investors provide.
20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation
Q: What is the most significant macro shift today that not enough people are talking about?
The transformation of jobs and the integration of AI in the workforce is crucial and not being adequately addressed.
20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation
Q: What is your biggest worry in the world today?
The short-term alignment of value creation in business with the long-term prosperity of everybody being inclusive and abundant.
20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation
Q: When you look at total AUM, can you realistically put the hours in and justify that commitment to seed when it's a $200 million vehicle in a $25 billion pool?
Culturally, it's challenging for VC firms as they scale, and we need to focus on ownership and relationships with companies instead of the sizes of checks.

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The content features a diverse range of discussions focused on key areas such as venture capital, startup growth, and innovative trends in the tech industry. Topics frequently explored include the operational dynamics of successful tech companies, insights into investment strategies from leading venture capitalists, and personal experiences shared by influential founders. The podcast distinguishes itself with its focus on practical advice for entrepreneurs and investors alike while creating a platform for meaningful conversations about the current and future landscape of technology and finance.

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