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20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation

Sep 22, 2025 · 01:27:19

✨ General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja discusses scaling the firm to $40BN AUM.

01:27:19

20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon

Sep 19, 2025 · 59:19

✨ Jesse Zhang discusses founding Decagon, an AI customer experience platform.

Jesse Zhang

59:19

20VC: Opendoor's CEO on The Greatest Turnaround in Tech | OpenAI and Oracle: How Can Either Afford to Do This | How Anthropic Could Lose 50% of Their Revenue Overnight | Replit Raises at $3BN | Figure, Gemini & VIA IPOs Broken Down

Sep 18, 2025 · 01:24:20

✨ Opendoor's CEO shares insights on the company's turnaround and market valuation.

01:24:20

20VC: Mercor: From $1M to $500M in 17 Months: The Fastest Growing Company in the World | How to Think About Margins and Revenue Sustainability in AI | Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are BS Today with Brendan Foody

Sep 15, 2025 · 01:01:16

✨ Mercor's rapid growth from $1M to $500M revenue in 17 months is detailed.

Brendan Foody

01:01:16

20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong

Sep 12, 2025 · 01:06:20

✨ Gong CEO Amit Bendov discusses AI's impact on sales teams and processes.

Amit Bendov

01:06:20

20VC: Musk's $TRN Pay Package Broken Down | Ramp Hits $1BN ARR and Brex Hits $700M: Who Wins | OpenAI's $10BN Secondary Sale | Atlassian Buys The Browser Company for $610M | ASML Lead Roun into Mistral at $14BN Valuation

Sep 11, 2025 · 01:27:56

✨ Breakdown of Musk's $1 trillion pay package and founder motivations.

01:27:56

20VC: ElevenLabs Hits $200M ARR: The Untold Story of Europe's Fastest Growing AI Startup | The Real Cost of AI from Talent to Data Centres | How US VCs are in a Different League to Europeans | The Future of Foundation Models with Mati Staniszewski

Sep 8, 2025 · 01:14:06

✨ ElevenLabs hits $200M ARR, highlighting Europe's fastest-growing AI startup.

Mati Staniszewski

01:14:06

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader

Sep 5, 2025 · 01:10:09

✨ Meta CMO Alex Schultz discusses adapting marketing playbooks for the AI era.

Is AI Plateauing

01:10:09

20VC: Anthropic Raises $13BN | Why Canva Will Not Direct List | OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock | Lovable Raising at $4BN + Vercel at $9BN: Justified or Not | Quarterly Results from SNOW, Mongo, ZOOM and more

Sep 4, 2025 · 01:14:22

✨ Anthropic raises $13BN, with analysis of the deal's implications.

ZOOM and more

01:14:22

20VC: Cohere Founder on How Cohere Compete with OpenAI and Anthropic $BNs | Why Counties Should Fund Their Own Models & the Need for Model Sovereignty | How Sam Altman Has Done a Disservice to AI with Nick Frosst

Sep 1, 2025 · 01:07:50

✨ Cohere competes with OpenAI/Anthropic by focusing on enterprise needs and model sovereignty.

Nick Frosst

01:07:50

20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi

Aug 29, 2025 · 53:48

✨ Many Chief Product Officers are ineffective; AI diminishes the need for traditional PM roles.

Jason James @ Tezi

53:48

20VC: Anthropic's $10BN Round | Klarna's IPO Broken Down | Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine | Martin Casado: Is Consensus Investing the Only Game | Why Satya is Chatting S*** on SaaS Apps Disappearing featuring Marc Benioff

Aug 28, 2025 · 01:11:40

✨ Marc Benioff discusses Salesforce's position in the data cloud war against competitors.

Marc Benioff

01:11:40

20VC: Do Margins Matter in AI? | Is Defensibility Gone For Good? | Is Vertical SaaS Dead in a World of AI | What SaaS Rules Are BS and No Longer Apply in a World of AI | The Future of Venture: Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS with Byron Deeter

Aug 25, 2025 · 01:21:03

✨ AI's high stakes challenge traditional SaaS metrics like margins and defensibility.

Byron Deeter

01:21:03

20VC: Databricks at $100BN | Chamath's SPAC Revival: Peak Mania? | OpenAI Staff Cash Out Billions & Sam Altman Will Spend Trillions | CoreWeave's $11B Debt Bet & Nubank's $2.5B Profit Shocker

Aug 21, 2025 · 01:27:58

✨ Databricks reaches $100B valuation, sparking debate on market bubbles and IPOs.

01:27:58

20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens

Aug 18, 2025 · 01:08:48

✨ Lovable achieved $120M ARR in 7 months, challenging AI talent acquisition strategies.

Bolt: What Happens Short OpenAI

01:08:48

20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand

Aug 15, 2025 · 01:20:48

✨ Legora competes effectively with less funding than Harvey, focusing on AI for lawyers.

Max Junestrand

01:20:48

20VC: GPT5: Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift To Anthropic | Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings | Monday & Datadog Perform But Hit Hard by Wall St | Should Perplexity Buy Chrome for $34.5BN |

Aug 14, 2025 · 01:22:01

✨ GPT-5's launch was underwhelming, potentially benefiting competitors like Anthropic.

To Anthropic

01:22:01

20VC: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index's Decacorn Factory | Decision-Making, Investment Process, Biggest Lessons, Biggest Misses | Why Gross Margin is a Fallacy at Seed | Never Turn Down a Deal on Price with Martin Mignot, Partner @ Index Ventures

Aug 11, 2025 · 01:19:50

✨ Index Ventures' success is highlighted through investments in Figma, Scale, and Wiz.

Martin Mignot

01:19:50

20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal

Aug 8, 2025 · 01:06:15

✨ Peter Rahal discusses building David Protein to $100M revenue and a $725M valuation.

Peter Rahal

01:06:15

20VC: Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever | Meta and Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down | Cognition Raises at $15BN and Ramp at $22BN | CRV Downsizing and What It Means for LPs and GPs

Aug 7, 2025 · 01:20:30

✨ Figma's IPO mispricing discussed, with founders potentially wanting a pop.

01:20:30

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