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

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

May 16, 2026 · 01:04:37

About This Episode

<p dir="ltr">Shiv Rao is the CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge, a leader in generative AI for healthcare. The company reached a $5.3 billion valuation following a $300 million funding round with investors including Jensen Huang, Henry Kravis, USV, Bessemer Venture Partners and Elad Gill. A practicing cardiologist, Shiv has scaled the company to 450 employees and partnered with major health systems like Emory and Yale. </p> <p dir="ltr">AGENDA:</p> <p dir="ltr">04:00 — You just have to survive long enough to not die</p> <p dir="ltr">06:00 — Did USV liking music make them billions of dollars?</p> <p dir="ltr">13:58 — The three variants of an AI native company</p> <p dir="ltr">15:00 — How do you know if foundation models are going to kill or help you?</p> <p dir="ltr">22:15 — Why OpenAI and Anthropic doing consultancies is such an obvious move</p> <p dir="ltr">41:00 — Biggest lesson from Jensen Huang at Nvidia</p> <p dir="ltr">41:00 — What Founder Mode truly means</p> <p dir="ltr">52:00 — What the founder of Duolingo taught me about sacrifice</p> <p dir="ltr">56:37 — If I started a company again, Elad Gill would be the one investor I go to</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p> </p>

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Shiv Rao @ Abridge
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