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20VC: How We Made $800M on Coursera | We Lost Money on Uber and Made Money on Lyft | We Did 3x on Postmates in 18 Months | DPI is King, MOIC is BS | We Dodged Theranos and I Still Lost Millions with Larry Aschebrook @ G Squared

Jun 16, 2025 · 01:34:40

✨ Larry Aschebrook shares insights on making $800M on Coursera and losing on Uber.

01:34:40

20VC: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink: Elon's Empire After the Firestorm | Are Circle and Coreweave Meme Stocks: IPO Analysis | Anduril Raises $2.6BN & Becomes Founders Fund's 1st and 2nd Largest Check Ever | Cursor Now 20% of SaaS Spend and the SaaS Slowdown

Jun 12, 2025 · 01:16:12

✨ Circle and Coreweave's IPOs analyzed; potential meme stock parallels drawn.

01:16:12

20VC: Fiverr CEO: 'If You're Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You're Done | Why "Time to Copy" is the Most Important Metric in Startups Today | Why 99% of AI Companies Today Will Die | Why Governments Will Take Control of AI with Micha Kauffman

Jun 9, 2025 · 01:06:00

✨ Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman stresses AI adaptation: 'If you're not adapting, you're done'.

Micha Kauffman

01:06:00

20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson

Jun 6, 2025 · 01:25:51

✨ Matt Pohlson shares Omaze's journey from near-death experience to unicorn startup.

Matt Pohlson

01:25:51

20VC: Is Chamath Right: Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters | Does OpenAI Even Matter | Mary Meekers AI Report: The Analysis| IPO Breakdown: Chime, Circle & Thoma Bravo's New Fund

Jun 5, 2025 · 01:23:15

✨ Debate on whether DPI is the only metric that matters in VC.

Thoma Bravo's New Fund

01:23:15

20VC: Windsurf Founder on Will Model Companies Own the App Layer | Why Moats Do Not Exist in a World of AI | Why the Notion of Single Person $BN Companies is BS | Lovable vs Bolt & Cursor vs Windsurf: How Does it All End with Varun Mohan

Jun 2, 2025 · 01:05:58

✨ Varun Mohan discusses AI-native IDEs, moats in AI, and the future of software.

Varun Mohan

01:05:58

20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner

May 30, 2025 · 01:18:34

✨ Kyle Norton details scaling Owner.com from $2M to $40M ARR.

Kyle Norton

01:18:34

20VC: OpenAI's $6BN Jony Ive Deal | YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart—and Has Officially Won | Builder.ai Implodes and Hinge IPOs: Who Wins & Who Loses | Seed Is Easy. Series A Is Brutal & The Dirty Truth About Late-Stage Venture

May 29, 2025 · 01:19:44

✨ The harsh realities of late-stage venture capital and 'fund returners' myth.

01:19:44

20VC: The Most Insane Story in Startups: Airwallex: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN | The Fund That Pulled a Term Sheet & Lost $1BN | Rejecting Stripe's $1.2BN Offer | Scaling to $1BN in Revenue & 100% YoY Growth for 8 Years with Jack Zhang

May 27, 2025 · 01:26:48

✨ Airwallex's incredible journey: $1M to $1BN, rejecting Stripe's $1.2BN offer.

Jack Zhang

01:26:48

20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries

May 23, 2025 · 01:15:44

✨ Luke Harries of ElevenLabs discusses their $3.3B valuation and growth strategies.

Luke Harries

01:15:44

20VC: Chime IPO: The Breakdown | Why Fund Returners Are Not Enough & Seed is for Suckers | Are IPOs Dead & The Future of the Late Stage Private Market | Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now?

May 22, 2025 · 01:17:53

✨ Analysis of Chime's potential IPO, its business model advantages, and investor returns.

01:17:53

20VC: Duolingo Co-Founder on Why $3M is Harder than $100M to Raise | Why You Should Always Take Tier 1 VCs Even at Worse Terms | Why Europe Can't Win Unless the US Screws Up | How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education with Severin Hacker

May 19, 2025 · 01:31:43

✨ Duolingo's Severin Hacker on raising $3M versus $100M and the value of Tier 1 VCs.

Severin Hacker

01:31:43

20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita

May 16, 2025 · 01:01:51

✨ Figma's CPO Yuhki Yamashita details their product development process and testing methods.

Yuhki Yamashita

01:01:51

20VC: Tiger Global Saved by OpenAI | Coatue's New Fund: Hype or Substance | Why SBF is the Greatest Investor of the Last 5 Years | Why Big Funds are Investing in Perplexity

May 15, 2025 · 01:14:37

✨ Discussion on how Tiger Global and Coatue are navigating the current investment landscape.

01:14:37

20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund | Why Founders Should Take the Highest Price | Why Serial Entrepreneurs are Better | Why AI Is So Overhyped | The Future of Venture Capital with Immad Akhund

May 12, 2025 · 01:02:21

✨ Mercury Founder Immad Akhund announces his new $26M venture fund.

Immad Akhund

01:02:21

20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment

May 9, 2025 · 01:09:46

✨ Eléonore Crespo of Pigment shares four traits of highly successful founders.

Eleonore Crespo @ Pigment

01:09:46

20VC: Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win | Windsurf Sells For $3BN | Decagon Raises at 100x ARR | Do Mega Funds Win the Future of VC | What Does Harvard's Losing Their For-Profit Status Mean for VC

May 7, 2025 · 01:11:34

✨ Analysis of the $3BN Windsurf acquisition and the future dominance of mega funds.

01:11:34

20VC Exclusive: Why Mega Platforms Will Win in VC | Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed | Why Market Sizing is BS | Where Will Foundation Models Build/Buy Apps vs Where Will They Not with Bucky Moore

May 5, 2025 · 01:05:07

✨ Bucky Moore joins Lightspeed, discussing why mega platforms are poised to win in VC.

Bucky Moore

01:05:07

20Sales: Sierra: Inside Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Sales Machine & How to Prospect, Outbound and Close Enterprise Deals in AI

May 2, 2025 · 01:07:19

✨ Reggie Marable of Sierra details their rapid growth and sales strategies in AI.

01:07:19

20VC: Why Fund Returners Are Not Enough Anymore | Why Sequoia Had the Best Strategy at the Worst Time | What it Takes to Be Good at Series A and B Today | Benchmark Leads Manus Round: Should US Funds Invest in Chinese AI

May 1, 2025 · 01:24:57

✨ Venture capital risk has increased; IRR is hard to control.

01:24:57

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