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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
Sales leader who helped scale Snowflake to billions ARR
Former Snowflake executive
Episode: 20Sales: The $100M CRO Bubble: Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis | Why You Should Never Hire From Salesforce or Service Now | How to Hire, Train and Forecase in a World of AI with Chad Peets and Chris Degnan
Josh Browder
Founder of DoNotPay and Browder Capital
Browder Capital / DoNotPay
Episode: 20VC: Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio | The One Man Accelerator at The Four Seasons | Why VCs Can Be Sharks and What Founders Need to Know | Why Stocks and Cash are BS and You Should Invest in Land with Josh Browder
Shiv Rao
Founder and CEO of Abridge
Abridge
Episode: 20VC: Lessons from Jensen Huang on "Founder Mode" | How to Know if OpenAI or Anthropic Will Kill your Company | How USV Liking Music Made Them $1BN on an Investment | The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao @ Abridge
Patrick Forquer
CRO at Legora
Legora
Episode: 20VC: Inside Legora: $100M ARR in 18 Months | Jude Law Generated $50M in Sales Pipeline: The Economics Broken Down | Competing Against Harvey, the 800 Pound Gorilla | Why Legora is Undervalued at $5.5BN with Patrick Forquer, CRO @ Legora
Cliff Weitzman
Founder and CEO of Speechify
Speechify
Episode: 20VC: What I Learned from 100 of the Best CEOs in the World | What I Learned from Staying with Mr Beast for 3 Weeks | How We Will Spend More on Tokens than Salaries with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify
Tobi Lütke
Founder and CEO of Shopify
Shopify
Episode: 20VC: Shopify's Tobi Lütke on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & What Will Labour Markets Be in the Future | Why We Need More Scrutiny on Charitable Giving, Governments are Bad at What They Do and Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada
Becca Lindquist
Head of Sales, Clay
Clay
Episode: 20VC: Inside Clay's Sales Playbook Scaling to $100M ARR | How to Set Sales Comp Plans | How to Read Sales Talent Linkedin Profiles | What Profiles to Hire & Fire | How to Increase Performance and Speed in Sales Teams with Becca Lindquist
Adam Foroughi
CEO of Applovin
Applovin
Episode: 20VC: Applovin: $160BN Market Cap, $5.48BN Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head | Why the Best Do Not Need Mentorship | Why Founders Should Not Angel Invest | Why Kindness in Business Will Slow You Down with Adam Foroughi
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

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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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4.6 out of 5 stars from 1.9k ratings
  • Interesting listens

    Thanks for solid biztech insights

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    5
    SimpleReviewYes?
    United Statesa month 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 Kingdom4 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 States5 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 Kingdom8 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 States8 months ago

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20VC: Inside Legora: $100M ARR in 18 Months | Jude Law Generated $50M in Sales Pipeline: The Economics Broken Down | Competing Against Harvey, the 800 Pound Gorilla | Why Legora is Undervalued at $5.5BN with Patrick Forquer, CRO @ Legora
Q: What is the biggest lesson about forecasting in this dynamic market?
Forecasting requires a weighted, multi-layer approach with rep-level wraps, regional inputs, and a governance layer that blends rolling forecasts with real-time opportunity stages to stay directionally accurate.
20VC: Inside Clay's Sales Playbook Scaling to $100M ARR | How to Set Sales Comp Plans | How to Read Sales Talent Linkedin Profiles | What Profiles to Hire & Fire | How to Increase Performance and Speed in Sales Teams with Becca Lindquist
Q: How should a founder think about sales compensation when building a team in an AI-first, high-growth environment?
Becca recommends starting with a simple base-plus-accelerator model that clearly aligns reps' incentives with company goals, using reasonable OTE-to-quota ratios and accelerators to reward overperformance without creating excessive complexity.
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.

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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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