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20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets

Nov 7, 2025 · 01:09:13

✨ Chad Peets emphasizes the need for a CRO before product launch.

Chad Peets

01:09:13

20VC: Navan IPO: Winners, Losers and is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC Today | Harvey Raises $150M at $8BN Price | Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell | Meta Down 10%, Is Zuck Struggling?

Nov 6, 2025 · 01:16:23

✨ Navan's IPO performance and the valuation of Harvey are discussed.

Is Zuck Struggling

01:16:23

20VC: Cohere's Chief AI Officer on Why Scaling Laws Will Continue | Whether You Can Buy Success in AI with Talent Acquisitions | The Future of Synthetic Data & What It Means for Models | Why AI Coding is Akin to Image Generation in 2015 with Joelle Pineau

Nov 3, 2025 · 57:34

✨ Joelle Pineau believes AI scaling laws will persist.

Talent Acquisitions

57:34

20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable

Oct 31, 2025 · 01:31:49

✨ Tim Ferriss explains walking away from angel investing after Uber.

01:31:49

20VC: a16z Raises $10BN in New Funds | Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation | OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses | Why IRR is a BS Metric and Three Ways to Win in VC Today

Oct 30, 2025 · 01:24:09

✨ a16z raised $10BN; Mercor achieved a $10BN valuation.

01:24:09

20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? | The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses | How to Analyse Margins and Growth Rates in a World of AI

Oct 27, 2025 · 01:14:23

✨ David Cahn believes an AI bubble exists; physical data centers are a moat.

01:14:23

20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao

Oct 24, 2025 · 01:16:18

✨ Sandy Diao covers building paid marketing machines and ROAS.

Sandy Diao

01:16:18

20VC: Why VC Today is Worse Than 2021 | Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad Investment Today | Why We Are Deluding Ourselves on Growth Expectations | Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation | Benchmark Adds Their Newest General Partner

Oct 23, 2025 · 01:28:58

✨ VC is currently worse than 2021; vertical SaaS is a poor investment.

01:28:58

20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation | Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On | Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky | Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions: What Works & What Doesn't

Oct 22, 2025 · 01:15:23

✨ Alex Bouaziz discusses Deel's $17BN valuation and $300M raise.

What Doesn't

01:15:23

20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp

Oct 17, 2025 · 01:13:49

✨ Warp is adding $1M ARR weekly, competing with OpenAI's coding tools.

Zach Lloyd

01:13:49

20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder | Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M | Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI

Oct 16, 2025 · 01:19:54

✨ Meta acquired Thinking Machines for $3.5BN; Goldman Sachs bought Industry Ventures.

01:19:54

20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with Mike Cannon-Brookes

Oct 13, 2025 · 01:03:16

✨ Atlassian CEO believes everything is overvalued and questions the AI bubble.

Mike Cannon

01:03:16

20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan

Oct 10, 2025 · 01:02:22

✨ Chris Degnan scaled Snowflake from $0 to $3BN ARR, building its sales engine.

Chris Chris Degnan

01:02:22

20VC: OpenAI's Multi $BN Deal with AMD | Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds | Does King Making Really Work in Venture Capital: Harvey vs Legora | Chamath is Back: The SPAC is Back

Oct 9, 2025 · 01:24:50

✨ OpenAI partners with AMD; Microsoft's partnership is questioned.

01:24:50

20VC: Cerebras CEO on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO | NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Worried About Growth | Concentration of Value in Mag7: Will the AI Train Come to a Halt | Can the US Supply the Energy for AI with Andrew Feldman

Oct 6, 2025 · 01:04:59

✨ Cerebras delayed IPO, raising $1BN; NVIDIA shows signs of growth worry.

Andrew Feldman

01:04:59

20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky

Oct 3, 2025 · 01:00:32

✨ Ketty Slonimsky shares strategies for scaling growth using influencers and community.

Ketty Slonimsky

01:00:32

20VC: Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World | Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy | Klarna, Figma, Stubhub, all Down: Are Public Markets Turning? | FiveTran and DBT: Is the Wave of Consolidation About to Begin?

Oct 2, 2025 · 01:16:32

✨ Burn multiples are questioned in the AI era; capital efficiency is crucial.

01:16:32

20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips | NVIDIA Will Be Worth $10TRN | How to Solve the Energy Required for AI... Nuclear | Why China is Behind the US in the Race for AGI with Jonathan Ross, Groq Founder

Sep 29, 2025 · 01:21:29

✨ OpenAI and Anthropic may build their own chips; NVIDIA's dominance challenged.

Jonathan Ross

01:21:29

20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson

Sep 26, 2025 · 54:15

✨ Revolut Business achieved $1BN revenue, processing over $33B monthly.

James Gibson

54:15

20VC: NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead | Navan Files to go Public & Notion Hits $500M ARR | The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US

Sep 25, 2025 · 01:19:34

✨ NVIDIA invests $100BN in OpenAI, impacting Anthropic's position.

Is Triple

01:19:34

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