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20VC: The $3.1BN Meeting That Led to an Uber Acquisition, The Battle With Uber; How to Outcompete When You Have 10x Less Cash & The Marketing Campaigns That Led to Pakistan MDs Fleeing and Elon Musk Fanboying with Mudassir Sheikha, CEO @ Careem

Sep 4, 2023 · 47:23

✨ The $3.1B Uber acquisition of Careem.

Mudassir Sheikha

47:23

20VC: Spending $2M to Train a Single AI Model: What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size | Hallucinations: Feature or Bug | Will Everyone Have an AI Friend in the Future & Raising $150M from a16z with Noam Shazeer, Co-Founder & CEO @ Character.ai

Aug 31, 2023 · 35:09

✨ Cost of training AI models: data vs. size.

Noam Shazeer

35:09

20VC: Why AI Models are not a Moat, Where Does the Value in AI Accrue; Startups or Incumbents, What the World Has Got Wrong About AI, Why AI Needs a New Story and Who is the Right People to Tell it with Cris Valenzuela, Co-Founder & CEO @ Runway

Aug 28, 2023 · 41:16

✨ AI models are not a moat; value accrues elsewhere.

Cris Valenzuela

41:16

20Product: Enterprises are not Adopting AI Yet, When Will AI Break Into Enterprise, What are the Blockers, What Do Enterprises Need from AI & Why Services Companies Will Win in the Next 10 Years of AI Implementation with Howie Liu, Founder & CEO @ Airtabl

Aug 25, 2023 · 39:04

✨ Enterprises are slow to adopt AI; blockers exist.

Howie Liu

39:04

20VC: NEW FORMAT: Mega Funds Will Come Back, Why Markups Have Corrupted VC, Why RIFs Should Always Be An Embarrassment To SaaS Founders and Why Pitching is BS and Fake with Jason Lemkin and Rick Zullo

Aug 23, 2023 · 54:00

✨ Mega funds may return; markups corrupt VC.

54:00

20VC: The Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley, Why Entrepreneurship is Not For Everyone, Why VCs are Out of Touch, Why Many Would Be Great Entrepreneurs Will Burn Out, Why You Should Let Your Children Suffer and Why You Will Choose The Wrong Partner with Nick

Aug 21, 2023 · 57:31

✨ Silicon Valley's biggest lies and entrepreneurship realities.

57:31

20VC: Does Value Accrue to Incumbents or Startups in the AI Race, Why Model Size Matters More Than Data Size, Why Artificial General Intelligence is Far Away, Why Carpenters Will Be Paid More Than Software Engineers & Future of Jobs with Richard Socher

Aug 18, 2023 · 45:56

✨ Value in AI race: incumbents vs. startups.

Richard Socher

45:56

20Growth: Why Product-Market Fit is Not Enough, Revenue Does Not Create Usage, Metrics Must Be Before Strategy, Why it is Always Better to Concentrate than Diversify Marketing Channels and Secrets from Hubspot's Growth Engine with Brian Balfour @ Reforge

Aug 16, 2023 · 57:55

✨ Product-market fit isn't enough; focus on usage.

57:55

20VC: Scaling Wait But Why to 600,000 Subs; Behind the Scenes on The Research Process, How to Learn Entirely New Topics Fast, The Writing Process and Building Good Habits & The Distribution Process and the Business Behind the Blog with Tim Urban

Aug 14, 2023 · 58:31

✨ Scaling Wait But Why to 600k subscribers.

Tim Urban

58:31

20VC Roundtable: NEW FORMAT: Why the Seed Investing Model is Broken, How to Make Money at Seed Moving Forward; Who Wins and Who Loses, Why Venture Value Add Platforms are BS and Failed and Why There Will be an IPO per Week in H2 2024

Aug 11, 2023 · 53:50

✨ Seed investing model is broken; focus on value creation and sustainable models.

53:50

20VC: The Memo: The State of the VC Market: Why Seed Funds Can't Invest in "Hot Startups" Anymore, Why Series A & B is Terrible, Why the IPO Market Will Explode in 2024 & Why VC DD is BS & Every VC Has More Fraud in their Portfolio with Jason Lemkin

Aug 9, 2023 · 01:09:10

✨ Seed funds struggle with hot startups; Series A/B rounds are challenging.

Jason Lemkin

01:09:10

20VC: Vinod Khosla on How AI Impacts The Future of Healthcare, Education, Income Equality, Geo-Politics, Music and Climate Change

Aug 7, 2023 · 43:49

✨ AI will revolutionize healthcare, education, and global economics.

43:49

20VC: Why "Hire Great People and Get Out of the Way" is Total BS, Why Your Upbringing Can Make You a Worse Leader & A Bentley, Two Nissan Cubes and Becoming One of Macedonia's Largest Employers; The Story of Slice with Ilir Sela

Aug 4, 2023 · 46:08

✨ Effective leadership requires more than just hiring; active involvement is key.

Ilir Sela

46:08

20Sales: Why The Founder Has To Be The One To Create The Sales Playbook, When To Hire Your First Rep, Why Junior is Better Than Senior, How to Manage Sales Rep Compensation, How To Onboard New Sales Reps and more with Lori Jimenez, CRO @ WorkRamp

Aug 2, 2023 · 51:46

✨ Founders must create the initial sales playbook for their company.

Lori Jimenez

51:46

20VC: Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta on Lessons from Investing $7.5BN at Softbank & Why Dumb Money has Gone, Why "LATAM is Under Construction" and the Next 10 Years Will Be the Best & Investing Lessons from Missing Nubank & OpenAI & Investing in FTX

Jul 31, 2023 · 58:07

✨ Softbank invested $7.5B; 'dumb money' is disappearing from the market.

58:07

20VC: Four Criteria to Assess Great Founders, Why and How the Best Leaders Make the Wrong Decisions 40% of the Time, Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400 and Making $1BN of EBITDA with Stephane Kurgan, Venture Partner @ Index Ventures

Jul 28, 2023 · 48:44

✨ Assess founders on vision, execution, resilience, and coachability.

Stephane Kurgan

48:44

20Growth: Biggest Growth Lessons from Instacart and Opendoor, Why 70% of Growth Experiments Should Fail and How to Fail Fast, How to Hire a Growth Team; Secrets and Tips & Why Operator Investors WIll be the Best Investors in 10 Years with Sri Batchu @ Ram

Jul 26, 2023 · 57:59

✨ Most growth experiments (70%) should fail; embrace rapid iteration.

57:59

20VC: Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri on Threads: The Journey from 0-100M Users; What Worked, What Didn't and the Plans Ahead | Instagram: Biggest Mistakes, Successes, Misconceptions, TikTok Competition & The Future of Social Media; Interest Graph or Friend G

Jul 24, 2023 · 01:10:06

✨ Threads reached 100M users rapidly; analyze successes and failures.

Instagram: Biggest Mistakes TikTok Competition

01:10:06

20VC: Why Hiring in Tech is Broken and Founders Need to be as Good at Firing as they are Hiring, Why Product Differentiation is Unsustainable & Why the Current Generation of Tech Employees are Entitled and What Needs to Change with Jean-Denis Greze @ Plai

Jul 21, 2023 · 50:17

✨ Tech hiring is flawed; founders must be adept at firing too.

50:17

20Product: The Secret to Successful Onboarding from Notion and Airtable, The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make in PLG Today& Why 90% of Onboarding Today is Done Poorly with Lauryn Isford, Head of Product Growth @ Notion

Jul 19, 2023 · 47:04

✨ Lauryn Isford shares Notion and Airtable's product-led growth strategies.

Lauryn Isford

47:04

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