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20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

Jan 22, 2025 · 01:06:26

✨ George Sivulka discusses the under-valuation of AI companies and the future of foundation models.

01:06:26

20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to Sell in Venture | Why Multi-Stage Firms Do Not Do The Work | Is Europe Totally F****** and Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US with Hussein Kanji

Jan 20, 2025 · 01:17:42

✨ Hussein Kanji discusses the challenges of raising early-stage funds and the European VC landscape.

Hussein Kanji

01:17:42

20VC: Monday.com: Scaling from $6M to $120M in ARR in 3 Years | How Monday Have Built the Best Performance Marketing Engine in SaaS | Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product; The Biggest Lessons and Mistakes with Eran Zinman

Jan 17, 2025 · 55:15

✨ Eran Zinman details Monday.com's journey from $6M to $120M ARR and their performance marketing engine.

Eran Zinman

55:15

20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai: Who Wins and Why | How Far Will Model Providers Go Into the Application Layer | The End State for Models: Many Specialised or Few Generalised with Victor Riparbelli @ Synthesia

Jan 15, 2025 · 01:11:40

✨ Victor Riparbelli questions the continuation of scaling laws in AI model development.

01:11:40

20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | Raising $15BN to Win China | Why The Traditional Venture Capital Model is Dead | The Future of Quantum and How We Will Cure All Diseases in 10 Years

Jan 13, 2025 · 01:12:44

✨ Shervin Pishevar recounts the Uber war and the evolution of venture capital.

01:12:44

20VC: The Future of Foundation Models | The Future of AI Consumer Apps and Why OpenAI Did a Disservice to Them | The Future of Music: Spotify vs YouTube & Spotify vs TikTok: What Happens with Mikey Shulman @ Suno

Jan 10, 2025 · 57:50

✨ Mikey Shulman discusses the future of foundation models and AI consumer applications.

57:50

20VC: Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets: From $60BN to $400M and Back to $40BN | The Biggest Opportunities, Mistakes and Challenges Ahead for One of the Public Market's Only 100x Investments

Jan 8, 2025 · 01:02:43

✨ Dan Gill shares Carvana's dramatic public market journey from $60BN to $400M and back.

The Biggest Opportunities

01:02:43

20VC: How To Do a 10x Seed Fund in 2025 | Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups an Founders | Lessons from Losing Billions Missing Airbnb and Pinterest & Investing Lessons from Charlie Munger with Mike Maples @ Floodgate

Jan 6, 2025 · 01:10:00

✨ Mike Maples outlines frameworks for evaluating startups and founders for a 10x seed fund.

Mike Maples @ Floodgate

01:10:00

20Sales: Rippling's CRO on Why Founders Should Not Create Sales Playbooks | Why Discounting is BS and How to Create Urgency in Deals | The Biggest Lessons on Pricing and How to Win the Pricing Game with Matt Plank

Dec 20, 2024 · 01:10:15

✨ Matt Plank argues against sales playbooks and discusses the BS of discounting.

Matt Plank

01:10:15

20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI

Dec 18, 2024 · 58:08

✨ Daniel Dines discusses UiPath's bootstrapped growth to $10B valuation.

58:08

20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate

Dec 16, 2024 · 58:36

✨ Reid Hoffman shares insights on US-China tech relations and TikTok.

Nuclear Energy

58:36

20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and Brand | The Ultimate Equation to Success in Sales and Why Most Founders Suck at Sales | Why You Should Overpay People and What That Means with Guillaume Moubeche @ Lempire

Dec 13, 2024 · 01:12:03

✨ Guillaume Moubeche details bootstrapping Lempire to $30M ARR via content.

01:12:03

20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Dec 11, 2024 · 01:12:19

✨ Torsten Reil discusses Helsing's AI for defense and raising $828M.

Co-Founder @ Helsing

01:12:19

20VC: Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff on The Future of LLMs | The Future of Agents | The Future of Labour | Management Lessons from Steve Jobs

Dec 9, 2024 · 43:44

✨ Marc Benioff believes LLMs are commoditizing and reaching their limits.

43:44

20VC: From Unsexy Startup to $1.8BN Acquisition | Why VCs and Founders are Fundamentally Misaligned | Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | Lessons from Josh Kushner and Marc Andreesen | Zac Bookman, OpenGov

Dec 6, 2024 · 01:08:06

✨ Zac Bookman shares OpenGov's journey to a $1.8BN acquisition.

01:08:06

20VC: Grindr: The Most Insane Story in Startups | How the Chinese Bought and Lost Grindr | The Successful IPO with $300M Revenues and 40% EBITDA Margins | How Grindr Built a Free Cash Flow Machine

Dec 4, 2024 · 56:36

✨ George Arison recounts Grindr's acquisition by Chinese entities and its IPO.

56:36

20VC: Revolut Founder Nik Storonsky on When and Where Revolut Will IPO & What Revolut Need to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation

Dec 4, 2024 · 45:53

✨ Nik Storonsky outlines Revolut's path to a potential $100BN valuation.

45:53

20Product: Is an AI Winter Approaching | The Future of AI Software Development: What is Real & What is BS | OpenAI: WTF is Going on & How Far Into Application Layer Do They Go | The Future Role of Software Engineers with Guy Podjarny

Nov 29, 2024 · 46:10

✨ Guy Podjarny discusses the possibility of an AI winter and AI development.

Guy Podjarny

46:10

20VC: Why Price Sensitivity is BS | Why "Portfolios" are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy | Why the Best Investment Never Happen in "Fundraising Rounds" | What Europe Needs to do to Become a Superpower Again | Klaus Hommels, Lakestar

Nov 27, 2024 · 01:09:51

✨ Klaus Hommels challenges the concept of price sensitivity in investing.

01:09:51

20VC: Discord's Jason Citron on Why Everything We are Taught About Hiring & Management is BS | Do Richer Founders & Gamer Founders Make Better Founders? | Never Before Told Moments Behind Scaling to 200M Users

Nov 25, 2024 · 50:33

✨ Discord's Jason Citron challenges conventional hiring and management wisdom.

Do Richer Founders

50:33

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