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

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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 The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and more.

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20VC: Jensen Huang Investigation: What Happens Now | Sequoia Leave London, Close Scout Program and End Evergreen Fund | NASDAQ Loses $2.5TRN in 24 hours | Anthropic targets $1.4TRN IPO valuation

2026-11-12 · 1 hr 7 min

AGENDA: 03:47 Sequoia exits London and ends its scout program 14:46 Nvidia board opens inquiry into Jensen Huang 21:51 Nasdaq 100 sheds $2.5T in one day 24:13 Anthropic targets $1T IPO valuation at $70–$78 a share 34:16…
20VC: Mistral CEO on Why Energy Is Not the Bottleneck to AI | Why OpenAI and Anthropic Will Come for Your Business | The Future of the Inference Market | Are Chinese Open-Source Models Truly Safe?

2026-11-09 · 50 min

Arthur Mensch is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Mistral, the last remaining hope for frontier intelligence in Europe. Mistral has raised approximately $7.5BN, including debt, and reached a valuation above $24BN. Previously a…
20VC: From $8BN to $19BN: Inside WashU's Endowment Fund | SpaceX Made Up 20% of Our AUM | Why Europe and China Has So Much Opportunity | The Reckoning That is Coming for AI Companies with Scott Wilson

2026-11-07 · 58 min

Scott Wilson is the CIO of WashU, one of the best-performing endowment funds in the world. Under his leadership, Scott has grown the endowment from $8BN to $19BN today. At one point, SpaceX was over 20% of the entire…
20VC: OpenAI Cuts Valuation to $1.25TRN | Public Market Meltdown: GOOG Loses $500BN in 12 Hours | DoorDash Buys Instacart for $17BN | Kalshi Raises $1BN and Cognition Eyes $80BN Valuation

2026-11-05 · 1 hr 9 min

AGENDA: 04:00 OpenAI Cuts Valuation to $1.25 Trillion as Fundraise Shrinks 08:00 Google Loses $500 Billion as AI Stocks Sell Off 10:00 Anthropic's Growth Slows as AI Price War Intensifies 27:00 DoorDash Buys Instacart…
20VC: Who Wins the Inference Market | Has Open-Source LLM Inference Peaked? | What Happens to the Cost of Compute | The Real Limits of Post-Training and RL with Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO

2026-11-02 · 1 hr 2 min

Erik Bernhardsson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Modal, the AI infrastructure platform for training models, running inference and powering AI agents. Modal has raised over $1.2 billion, including a recent $750 million…
20VC: David Tisch on Why High Ownership and Concentration is BS | Why No Manager Actually Wants to Stay Small | Why Competing with the Mega Platforms is a Losing Game | Why the Lean Startup is a Fake?

2026-10-31 · 1 hr 17 min

David Tisch is the Founder of Box Group, one of the best seed funds of the last decade with early investments in Cursor, Baseten and Clay to name a few. Today the fund invests from two funds, a $275M seed fund and a…
20VC: Anthropic Files S1 Ahead of $2TRN IPO | Instinct's Rumoured $30 Billion Fundraise | Microsoft Laysoff 27,000 While Meta Taps Equity Markets for $95 Billion Capex Spending Spree

2026-10-29 · 1 hr 0 min

AGENDA: 04:00 Anthropic Files S-1 Ahead of $2TRN IPO 14:50 Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees 20:45 Zuckerberg Taps Equity Markets for $95 Billion AI Spending Spree 23:00 DeepSeek Raises $15 Billion as Chinese…
20VC: Satya Nadella on Open vs Closed Models: Who Wins | Whether to Trust Frontier Model Providers | Why Companies Need to Own Their Own Intelligence | The Importance of Verticalisation: From Chips to Models and More

2026-10-26 · 26 min

Satya Nadella is the CEO of Microsoft and one of the greatest CEOs of our time. Satya has been at the company for an astonishing 34 years. When he joined, Microsoft had a market cap of $23.5BN. 22 years later, the…
20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional

2026-10-24 · 1 hr 9 min

AGENDA: 05:00 Will we run out of energy? 19:00 Will specialised chips threaten NVIDIA's dominance? 26:00 Can we trust AI agents more than humans? 31:00 Will data companies become commodities? 36:00 What comes after…
20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B

2026-10-22 · 1 hr 1 min

AGENDA: 04:20 Billion-Dollar Bets or Nothing: Why VCs Are Rejecting Fast-Growing Startups 13:20 CoreWeave Sell-Off Sparks Fears of Cracks in AI Boom 18:50 Anthropic's IPO Valuation Could Fall From $2 TRN to $1.5 TRN…

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Oldest episode in feed: 01/2015 · over 11 years
Typical length: 44 min
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