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

Harry Stebbings
Venture Capital
Openai
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic
Saas
NVIDIA
Spacex
Startups
Figma
Google
Cursor
Product Management
Private Equity
Startup Growth
Mercor
Meta
Databricks
Email Marketing
Marketing
Elevenlabs

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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Recent Guests

Chase Lochmiller
Founder/CEO of Crusoe Energy
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Episode: 20VC: The Future of Datacentres: What You Need to Know | Why Everyone Gets GPU Depreciation and AI's Energy Costs Wrong | Who Really Makes Money From AI & Why Most Moats Don't Exist with Chase Lochmiller
Jack Altman
Special guest, Benchmark partner
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Episode: 20VC: Instinct Raises $1B at $10B Valuation | AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B | Meta Poaches MongoDB's CEO | Bessemer Raises $5.75B | Oura Pulls IPO & Nubank Eyes $8–12B Monzo Takeover
Alex Mashrabov
Founder of Higgsfield
Higgsfield
Episode: 20VC: $1BN ARR in 18 Months; The Untold Story of Higgsfield | Spending $4M Per Month on Models | Why Moats in AI are BS | Scaling a Content Team to 150 People with Alex Mashrabov
Parag Agrawal
Founder of Parallel, discussing agentic search and the future of AI-enabled web
Parallel
Episode: 20VC: Five Predictions for a World of Agents | The Ads Business Model Will Die | Biggest Lessons from Working with Elon Musk at Twitter with Parag Agrawal, Parallel
Thomas Sohmers
Co-Founder and Chairman at Positron AI
Positron AI
Episode: 20VC: "Anti-Data Centres is a Chinese Psyop" | How Many Planned Data Centers Will Actually Get Built? | Is Energy AI's Biggest Bottleneck? With Thomas Sohmers, Co-Founder @ Positron
David Morehead
CIO Baylor University Office of Investments
Baylor University
Episode: 20VC: How LPs Allocate to Venture in 2026: What They Want, What They Do Not Want | Why Fund Multiple Does Not Matter Without a Timeline | Why Velocity of Cashback is the Most Important Thing with David Morehead, CIO @ Baylor
Matteo Franceschetti
Co-Founder of Eight Sleep
Eight Sleep
Episode: 20VC: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World: Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots Buying Cybercabs and more with Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder @ Eight Sleep
Jensen Huang
CEO of NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Episode: 20VC: Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | GPT Astra and Fable 5.1 Accelerate the Model Race | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town & Anthropic Pulls From Descartes Acquisition
Jean-Denis (JD)
Founder of Town, former CTO at Plaid
Town
Episode: 20VC: The $100 Billion AI Assistant Race: Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | We Spend $75K Per Engineer on AI Tools | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble & AI Assistants Will Replace Every App on Your Phone with JD, Founder of Town

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Harry Stebbings
Host of The Twenty Minute VC, known for curating high-profile guests and driving brisk, insight-rich interviews.

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 2k ratings
  • Great pod, great content

    i look forward for the release of each episode

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    anothersedude
    United Statesa month ago
  • Worth it

    Having moved into the tech / scale up space about 5 years ago, the void in understanding funding, product, engineering etc was immense and listening to 20VC has helped me bridge a lot of this. It helps me keep up to date with the latest and greatest, I learn about some awesome new businesses and people and it’s just very interesting. I never miss an episode. Highly recommended.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    NPH1980
    United Kingdom2 months ago
  • Interesting listens

    Thanks for solid biztech insights

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    SimpleReviewYes?
    United States5 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.

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    Please no AI
    United Kingdom8 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.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Projomni78
    United States9 months ago
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20VC: "Anti-Data Centres is a Chinese Psyop" | How Many Planned Data Centers Will Actually Get Built? | Is Energy AI's Biggest Bottleneck? With Thomas Sohmers, Co-Founder @ Positron
Q: But what does that actually mean in reality? How possible is it? What does it mean for the threat from China? What does it mean for the infrastructure layer moving forwards?
The guest explains that the frontier pace affects both hardware demand and geopolitical risk, emphasizing that memory-bound constraints, energy efficiency, and scalable inference infrastructure will shape how the industry evolves and how nations compete, with focus on open models, on-site inference, and resilient supply chains.
20VC: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World: Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots Buying Cybercabs and more with Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder @ Eight Sleep
Q: What is your approach to AI in marketing and product development?
We use AI to automate email marketing, run internal AI agents, and build a data-driven decision layer to optimize CAC and growth, while preserving a strong brand and direct relationships with key athletes and partners.
20VC: Is Anthropic's Coding Business Worth $2 Trillion? | Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Why 80–90% of Neo-Labs Die in the Next 18 Months? with Eno Reyes, Co-Founder @ Factory
Q: Why is on-premise deployment important for enterprises?
On-premise provides control and ownership of intelligence, reduces reliance on external providers, and aligns with sovereign data needs, making it a staple for many large organizations.
20VC: Is Anthropic's Coding Business Worth $2 Trillion? | Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Why 80–90% of Neo-Labs Die in the Next 18 Months? with Eno Reyes, Co-Founder @ Factory
Q: What is the dominant determinant of an AI product's success in an enterprise today?
Outcome-focused value is paramount; the best model is not the cheapest or most powerful if it cannot consistently deliver verifiable, high-quality results within a business workflow.
20VC: The AI Bubble Is Wrong | AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern | Why People Over-Estimate Open Models But Enterprises Still Fear Frontier Models with Aaron Katz, ClickHouse
Q: How do you balance open-source openness with the need to protect enterprise security and monetization?
Aaron Katz explains the need for a hybrid approach: leveraging open-source for broad adoption while offering protected, governance-enabled enterprise deployments and selective use of frontier models to manage risk and ensure indemnification and compliance.

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The show features high-velocity conversations with founders, operators, and especially venture investors who shape early-stage startup strategy. Episodes often dissect AI, enterprise software, and platform economics, interleaved with sharp questions about fundraising, go-to-market, and building scalable businesses. A standout trait is the host's knack for curating prominent guests and fast-paced, practical takeaways, though some listeners feel the format leans into AI hype or sensational headlines at times. The show is likely particularly appealing to founders seeking fundraising tactics, VCs looking for market context, and teams aiming to understand the dynamics of early-stage tech investing and growth. Noteworthy is the recurring emphasis... more

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