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20VC: Chips, Models or Applications; Where is the Value in AI | Is Compute the Answer to All Model Performance Questions | Why Open AI Shelved AGI & Is There Any Value in Models with OpenAI Price Dumping with Aidan, Gomez, Co-Founder @ Cohere

Aug 19, 2024 · 58:35

✨ Aidan Gomez discusses value distribution in AI: chips, models, or applications.

Co-Founder @ Cohere

58:35

20VC: Capital G's Laela Sturdy on What Stripe, UiPath and Duolingo Taught Me About Company Building and Investing | How to Analyse Valuation, Market Timing, Sizing and Exiting | Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund

Aug 16, 2024 · 55:49

✨ Laela Sturdy discusses CapitalG's investments in Stripe, Duolingo, and UiPath.

Market Timing

55:49

20VC: Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg, Keith Rabois & Tobi Lütke | Why Remote is a Bad Idea for 90% of Companies | The Framework for How Shopify Builds Product Today | What Humans Get Wrong About Marriage and Kids with Kaz Nejatian, COO @ Shopify

Aug 14, 2024 · 01:03:05

✨ Kaz Nejatian shares lessons from Mark Zuckerberg and Tobi Lütke.

Kaz Nejatian

01:03:05

20VC: Sequoia's Shaun Maguire: Will We See WW3 Shortly | Why DEI is a Cancer for Society | Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil | Why Trump is the Only Hope for Peace in the Middle East | Trump vs Harris: Who Wins & What Happens

Aug 12, 2024 · 01:03:07

✨ Shaun Maguire discusses geopolitical risks, including Iran and potential WW3.

Harris: Who Wins What Happens

01:03:07

20VC: Why VC is Distorting a Generation of SaaS Companies & With $900M in ARR and a Market Cap of $2.6BN is Lightspeed the Most Misunderstood Public Company with Dax Dasilva, Founder & CEO @ Lightspeed

Aug 9, 2024 · 46:12

✨ Dax Dasilva explains how VC distorts SaaS company valuations.

Dax Dasilva

46:12

20VC: How a Angel City Makes $31M per Season | How Sports Teams Can and Should Be Better Businesses | Why Every Sports Team Will Look Like a Media Agency and Founding The Most Valuable Women's Sports Team with Alexis Ohanian

Aug 7, 2024 · 01:13:14

✨ Alexis Ohanian details how Angel City generates $31M per season.

Alexis Ohanian

01:13:14

20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on AI's $600BN Question | Why the Data Centre is the Most Important Asset | Servers, Steel and Power: The Core Pillars Powering the Future of AI

Aug 5, 2024 · 01:13:13

✨ David Cahn addresses AI's $600 billion question and its core needs.

01:13:13

20Sales: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | Moving from SMB to Enterprise: How and When | Verticalised Sales Teams: Why They are a Gamechanger and How to Build Them with Ben Fiechtner, CRO @ Clari

Aug 2, 2024 · 55:04

✨ Ben Fiechtner outlines a 12-week framework for sales success.

Ben Fiechtner

55:04

20VC: Is More Compute the Answer to Model Performance | Why OpenAI Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken & Analysing Their Race for AGI | What Companies, AI Labs and Startups Get Wrong About AI with Ethan Mollick

Jul 31, 2024 · 01:08:50

✨ Ethan Mollick questions if more compute is the answer for AI models.

Ethan Mollick

01:08:50

20VC: Twitter's Most Controversial VC Delian Asparouhov on Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | Why Western Europe Will Be Like the Third World | Why SaaS as an Industry Might Be Dead

Jul 29, 2024 · 01:15:49

✨ Delian Asparحouhov discusses Founders Fund's investments and Varda Space Industries.

01:15:49

20Growth: How Transferwise Acquired Their First 5M Customers: The Two Types of Content All Companies Must Create, How to Crush Competition With Performance Marketing, What Growth Hacks Worked and Did Not with Nilan Peiris, CPO @ Wise

Jul 26, 2024 · 48:12

✨ Nilan Peiris shares how Wise acquired its first 5 million customers.

Performance Marketing

48:12

This Week in SaaS: Should Wiz Have Accepted Google's $23BN Acquisition Offer, Crowdstrike: WTF Happens From Here: The Bull and the Bear Case & $1BN into Legal Tech in a Day with Clio and Harvey with Jason Lemkin

Jul 24, 2024 · 50:33

✨ Wiz reportedly rejected a $23BN Google acquisition offer, sparking debate on valuation.

Jason Lemkin

50:33

20VC: How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet | Investing Lessons from Roelof Botha & Peter Thiel | Why VC is Less Collaborative Than Ever and Great Companies Are Being Destroyed by Too Much Cash with Kevin Hartz @ A*

Jul 22, 2024 · 01:02:54

✨ Kevin Hartz shares lessons from losing Airbnb at seed due to term sheet issues.

Kevin Hartz @ A*

01:02:54

20Product: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? The Top 5 Product Lessons in Scaling to 185M Monthly Active Users with Canva Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams

Jul 19, 2024 · 49:49

✨ Canva's co-founder shares product lessons from scaling to 185M monthly active users.

Canva Co

49:49

20VC: Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins and How Does it Play Out | Battling Founder Mental Health and The Importance of Secondaries for Founders

Jul 17, 2024 · 50:15

✨ Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi discusses the path to becoming a public company.

50:15

20VC: Why We Are in a Bubble & Now is Frothier Than 2021 | Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | Why Seed Pricing is Rational & Large Seed Rounds Have Less Risk | Why Many AI Apps Have BS Revenue & Are Not Sustainable with Saam Motamedi @ Greylock

Jul 15, 2024 · 01:06:25

✨ Saam Motamedi argues the current market is frothier than 2021, despite some rational seed pricing.

01:06:25

20Sales: Biggest Lessons Scaling Hubspot from $0-$100M in ARR, The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise, How to do Channel Partnerships Right and How to Construct Sales Comp Plans Early On with Mark Roberge

Jul 12, 2024 · 40:00

✨ Mark Roberge shares scaling lessons from HubSpot's $0-$100M ARR journey.

Mark Roberge

40:00

20VC: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier: How to Build a Dominant Vertical SaaS Business, How to Master Going Into Enterprise, When & How to Launch Second Products with Ara Mahdessian, Co-Founder @ServiceTitan

Jul 10, 2024 · 51:07

✨ ServiceTitan's co-founder explains why delaying VC funding was crucial for their success.

Ara Mahdessian

51:07

20VC: The Sequoia Investment Process | Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha & Alfred Lin | Sequoia's Framework for Analysing Founders | The True Benefit of Having Sequoia on a Cap Table & Sequoia's Biggest Threat with Pat Grady

Jul 8, 2024 · 01:08:59

✨ Pat Grady details Sequoia's investment process and founder analysis framework.

Pat Grady

01:08:59

20VC: Turning a $15M Investment in Monday into $1.5BN in Cash | The Strategy Behind a 37x DPI $45M Fund | The Three Step Process to Selling Positions that has Netted Top Percentile Returns with Avi Eyal, Co-Founder @ Entrée Capital

Jul 3, 2024 · 58:34

✨ Avi Eyal discusses Entrée Capital's $1.5BN return from a $15M Monday.com investment.

Avi Eyal

58:34

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