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20VC: Enterprises Will Not Adopt AI without Forward-Deployed Engineers | Who Wins the Data Labelling Race: How Does it Shake Out? | How Synthetic Data Threatens the Future of Human-Generated Data with Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies

Dec 31, 2025 · 01:23:42

✨ Enterprises need forward-deployed engineers for AI adoption.

Matt Fitzpatrick

01:23:42

20VC's Big Fat Quiz of the Year: Founder, Fund and Breakout Company of 2025 | Predictions for 2026: The Company to Buy, The Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win 2026 and The Tailwinds NVIDIA Will Face

Dec 22, 2025 · 01:09:42

✨ Highlights Founder, Product, and Fund of the Year for 2025.

01:09:42

20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Dec 19, 2025 · 56:00

✨ On Running's CPO discusses creating emotion through product design.

Gerald Marolf

56:00

20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Dec 18, 2025 · 01:22:03

✨ Discusses Lightspeed's $9BN fundraise and impact on seed VCs.

New CRO

01:22:03

20VC: a16z's David George on How $BN Funds Can 5×, Do Margins & Revenue Matter in AI & the Most Controversial Bet at a16z

Dec 15, 2025 · 01:06:37

✨ a16z's David George discusses mega funds and growth investing.

01:06:37

20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

Dec 12, 2025 · 01:16:10

✨ Wiz built a $30BN brand through effective enterprise sales and marketing.

Raaz Herzberg

01:16:10

20VC OGs: SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price | Airwallex Raises $330M and The Battle with Keith Rabois | Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers | IPO Market Predictions for 2026: Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks and SpaceX

Dec 11, 2025 · 01:31:48

✨ SpaceX valued at $800BN; Harvey raises $160M at $8BN.

Keith Rabois

01:31:48

20VC: Kalshi's $1BN Raise, the Polymarket Feud, and the Battle to Replace Traditional Media

Dec 8, 2025 · 47:55

✨ Kalshi raises $1BN at $11BN valuation for prediction markets.

47:55

20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato

Dec 5, 2025 · 01:05:28

✨ Bending Spoons acquires companies like Evernote, Vimeo, and Eventbrite.

Federico Simionato

01:05:28

20VC: Thrive & OpenAI Partnership | Eventbrite Acquired for $500M | Databricks Raising $5BN at $134BN Valuation: Cheap or Not? | Why SaaS is Like Japan and The TAM Trap in Software

Dec 4, 2025 · 01:12:30

✨ Discussion on the Thrive and OpenAI partnership and Eventbrite's $500M acquisition.

01:12:30

20VC: Scale, Surge, Turing, Mercor: Who Wins & Who Loses in Data Labelling | Is Revenue in Data Labelling Real or GMV? | Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Go and What Happens Then? | Why SaaS is Dead in a World of AI with Jonathan Siddharth @ Turing

Dec 1, 2025 · 01:08:16

✨ Jonathan Siddharth discusses AI data needs, compute abundance, and the future of knowledge work.

01:08:16

20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency

Nov 28, 2025 · 01:08:30

✨ John McMahon shares strategies for hiring, training, and retaining top enterprise software sales talent.

01:08:30

20VC: Anthropic Raises $30BN from Microsoft and NVIDIA | NVIDIA Core Business Threatened by TPU | Sam Altman's "War Mode" Analysed | Sierra Hits $100M ARR: Justifies $10BN Price? | Lovable Hits $200M ARR & Rumoured $6BN Round

Nov 27, 2025 · 01:30:09

✨ The episode analyzes Anthropic's massive $30BN investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA.

01:30:09

20VC: Base44's Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS and Salesforce | Why it is BS that Vibe Coding Platforms Do Not Have Defensibility and Bad Margins | Why He Worries About Google, Not Replit and Lovable | Why Long Anthropic, Not OpenAI?

Nov 24, 2025 · 01:11:43

✨ Maor Shlomo predicts 'Vibe Coding' will disrupt SaaS and Salesforce, challenging traditional models.

Not OpenAI

01:11:43

20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster

Nov 21, 2025 · 01:19:22

✨ Max Altman discusses the intense competition in seed-stage venture capital, dominated by major players.

01:19:22

20VC: Cursor Raises $2.3BN: Who Wins the Coding War | Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: Analysed | Why Venture Capital Will Hit $1TRN and the Opening of Retail | Why Stripe and the Best Companies Will Never Go Public

Nov 20, 2025 · 01:22:38

✨ Cursor secures $2.3BN funding at $29BN valuation, impacting AI coding tools.

01:22:38

20VC: Andrew NG on The Biggest Bottlenecks in AI | How LLMs Can Be Used as a Geopolitical Weapon | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI? | Is Defensibility Dead in a World of AI? | Will AI Deliver Masa Son's Predictions of 5% GDP Growth?

Nov 17, 2025 · 01:02:53

✨ Andrew Ng discusses AI bottlenecks and LLMs as geopolitical tools.

01:02:53

20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify

Nov 14, 2025 · 01:11:23

✨ Carl Rivera shares insights on how AI transforms product design.

Carl Rivera

01:11:23

20VC: Sequoia's Leadership Transition | Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir | Gamma Raises $100M at $2BN | Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI | Datadog Surges as Duolingo Plummets: What is Happening

Nov 13, 2025 · 01:15:50

✨ Sequoia's leadership transition and Michael Burry's shorts on NVIDIA and Palantir.

01:15:50

20VC: Benchmark's Newest General Partner Ev Randle on Why Margins Matter Less in AI | Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns | OpenAI vs Anthropic: What Happens and Who Wins Coding | Investing Lessons from Peter Thiel and Mamoon Hamid

Nov 10, 2025 · 01:25:43

✨ Ev Randle discusses Benchmark's investment strategy and high multiples achieved.

01:25:43

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