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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

Harry Stebbings · Business · EN

This podcast features interviews with prominent venture capitalists and successful startup founders, discussing venture capital, startup funding, and the pitch process. It offers insights into the strategies and experiences of leaders in the tech and investment world.

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20Sales: How to Build Vertical Sales Teams, Why No Customer Success is BS and Everyone Needs it, How to Hire, Train and Retain the First Reps and Lessons Scaling to $2.1BN Revenue and 1,300 People with Larry Schurtz, CRO @ Genesys
May 10, 2024 · 55:33
✨ Larry Shurtz explains building vertical sales teams and hiring reps.
Larry Schurtz
55:33
20VC: GV's Tom Hulme on Why Investing in Foundation Models is like Investing in "Power Stations", The Conventional Wisdom in VC that is BS & Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 255x on Robinhood and Making Billions on Uber
May 8, 2024 · 01:17:25
✨ Tom Hulme compares investing in foundation models to 'power stations'.
01:17:25
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Are Foundation Models Commoditising | Why Frontier Models Will Be Closed Source | Why the Value is in the Application Layer | The Future of AI is "Selling the Work" Not the Tools
May 6, 2024 · 01:00:51
✨ Sarah Tavel discusses foundation models commoditizing and closed-source frontier models.
01:00:51
20VC: The Memo: Keith Rabois and Ramp's Eric Glyman on Behind The Scenes at The Best Run Private Company on the Planet; The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency
May 3, 2024 · 42:43
✨ Eric Glyman and Keith Rabois reveal Ramp's efficiency secrets.
42:43
20VC: Mark Suster on The Biggest Fundraising Lessons for VCs, Why the Correction in Venture is Still to Come, Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path & The Woke Left and a Trump Administration; What Happens?
May 1, 2024 · 58:34
✨ Mark Suster shares fundraising lessons and predicts a VC correction.
58:34
20VC: Mistral's Arthur Mensch: Are Foundation Models Commoditising | How Do We Solve the Problem of Compute | Is There Value in the Application Layer | Open vs Closed: Who Wins and Mistral's Position
Apr 29, 2024 · 49:49
✨ Arthur Mensch addresses foundation model commoditization and compute challenges.
49:49
20Growth: Inside Dropbox, Salesforce & Heroku's Product-Led Growth Engine; What Works & What Doesn't | Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | Why PLG is a Business Model, Not a Go-To-Market Motion with Adam Gross, Former CEO @ Vimeo
Apr 26, 2024 · 41:53
✨ Adam Gross details product-led growth engines at Dropbox, Heroku, and Vimeo.
Adam Gross
41:53
20VC: Is Speed the Most Important Thing from 0-1 | Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | The Biggest Lessons Scaling Zip to $1.5BN Valuation with Rujul Zaparde, Co-Founder and CEO @ Zip
Apr 24, 2024 · 56:11
✨ Rujul Zaparde discusses the importance of speed from 0 to 1.
Rujul Zaparde
56:11
20VC: UiPath: The 10 Year Bootstrapping Journey that Turned into a $10BN Public Company | From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man | Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more with Daniel Dines, Co-Founder @ UiPath
Apr 22, 2024 · 01:25:10
✨ Daniel Dines shares UiPath's 10-year bootstrapping journey to a $10BN IPO.
Daniel Dines
01:25:10
20VC: Three Core Lessons Scaling Freshworks to a $5.2BN Market Cap | Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | How India Can Compete Globally in Tech and AI with Girish Mathrubootham, Co-Founder @ Freshworks
Apr 19, 2024 · 49:32
✨ Girish Mathrubootham shares Freshworks' scaling journey to a $5.2BN market cap.
Girish Mathrubootham
49:32
20Product: Sequoia's Product-Market Fit Framework | Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product | Metrics 101, Good vs Great Product Strategy and more with Vickie Peng, Product Partner @ Sequoia Capital
Apr 17, 2024 · 49:48
✨ Vickie Peng introduces Sequoia's product-market fit framework.
Vickie Peng
49:48
20VC: OpenAI's Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap on The Future of Foundation Models: Will They Be Commoditised | How to Solve the Problem of Compute | Open vs Closed: Which Dominates and Why | Which Companies and Verticals Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI
Apr 15, 2024 · 49:39
✨ Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap discuss the future of foundation models.
49:39
20Sales: The Biggest Sales Lessons Scaling Brex to $400M ARR, Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It & Why Demand Gen is the Bottleneck for all Startups and How to Solve it with Sam Blond, Former CRO @ Brex
Apr 12, 2024 · 01:14:25
✨ Sam Blond details scaling Brex to $400M ARR and Zenefits to $70M ARR.
Sam Blond
01:14:25
20VC: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers, Are the Best Founders Insiders or Outsiders to a Problem, Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC & The Biggest Lessons Scaling MongoDB to $26BN Market Cap with Kevin Ryan, Founder @ AlleyCorp
Apr 10, 2024 · 01:03:40
✨ Kevin Ryan discusses scaling MongoDB to a $26BN market cap.
Kevin Ryan
01:03:40
20VC: Postmates Founder Basti Lehmann on How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN, Why Great VCs Add No Value and VC Value Add is BS Marketing & Why The Biggest Companies in History Will be Born Today and Replace Incumbents
Apr 8, 2024 · 59:26
✨ Basti Lehmann recounts the Postmates acquisition by Uber.
59:26
20VC: Oscar Health: How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap, "Why I Stood Aside as CEO" and The Rebound Journey to $5.8BN in Revenue with Mario Schlosser, Co-Founder @ Oscar Health
Apr 5, 2024 · 01:09:43
✨ Mario Schlosser details Oscar Health's market cap decline and rebound.
Mario Schlosser
01:09:43
20VC: Founders Fund's Trae Stephens on Why The Most Competitive Deals are the Worst, Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC, Why We are Making ZIRP Mistakes Again Today, Why Loss Ratio is BS and Upside Maximisation is Everything
Apr 3, 2024 · 01:12:52
✨ Trae Stephens discusses why competitive deals are often the worst.
01:12:52
20VC: The Memo: The $23BN Company You Might Not Have Heard Of: Tradeweb, The Story of 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue and 50% EBITDA Margins
Mar 29, 2024 · 51:13
✨ Billy Hult shares Tradeweb's 27-year journey to a $22BN market cap.
51:13
20VC: a16z's Chris Dixon on Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture, The Two Ways to Make Great Venture Investments and Find the Best Entrepreneurs & Why AI Will Strengthen the Position of the Incumbents Moving Forward
Mar 27, 2024 · 55:12
✨ Chris Dixon discusses the future of venture capital and entrepreneurship.
55:12
20VC: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing | Why Exits Will Be Larger & Funds Sizes Bigger | Top Reasons to Turn Down Potential Fund Investments | Fees, Carry, Deployment Pace; What Do LPs Inspect When Fund Investing with David Clark, CIO @ Vencap
Mar 25, 2024 · 01:10:47
✨ David Clark shares 32 years of fund investing insights.
David Clark
01:10:47

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