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20VC: HubSpot CEO on Where Value Accrues in SaaS AI | How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce | Why B2B Is Not a Winner Take All Market | How to Go From SMB to Enterprise an Win | How SEO Dying Changes HubSpot's Business with Yamini Rangan

Mar 18, 2025 · 55:12

✨ HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan discusses value accrual in SaaS AI.

Yamini Rangan

55:12

20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify

Mar 14, 2025 · 49:04

✨ Matt Biilmann on designing and building products for AI agents.

Matt Biilmann

49:04

20VC: Lessons from Investing $2BN and Returning $8BN in Cash | Why Most Venture Partnerships are Broken | We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions | Are The Best Deals Always Expensive and Competitive with Jake Saper @ Emergence Capital

Mar 10, 2025 · 01:28:49

✨ Jake Saper shares lessons from investing $2BN and returning $8BN.

01:28:49

20Sales: Everything You Know About Sales Playbooks is Wrong | How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires | How to Crush Pipeline and Deal Reviews as a Team | How to Structure Sales Teams and Sales Comp Plans with Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password

Mar 7, 2025 · 51:52

✨ Julian Teixeira challenges conventional sales playbook strategies.

Julian Teixeira

51:52

20VC: Lovable on Hitting $17.5M in ARR in 3 Months | Adding $2.1M ARR Every Week | Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention: Better than ChatGPT | The Story of Europe's Fastest Scaling Company with Anton Osika

Mar 5, 2025 · 50:44

✨ Lovable achieved $17.5M ARR in 3 months, adding $2.1M weekly.

Anton Osika

50:44

20VC: Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: Where Will Value Be Created in a World of AI | Have Foundation Models Commoditized | When Do Model Providers Become Application Providers | What Anthropic Learned from Deepseek

Mar 3, 2025 · 01:06:06

✨ Mike Krieger explores value creation in an AI-driven world.

01:06:06

20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Feb 28, 2025 · 55:21

✨ George Bonaci reveals Ramp's growth engine and key learnings.

George Bonaci

55:21

20VC: The Insane Story of Glovo: Selling 30% of the Company for €100K | The McDonalds Deal That Saved Them | Running out of Money Three Times | Burning $1M Per Day | Being Acquired for $2.2BN with Oscar Pierre, Founder @ Glovo

Feb 26, 2025 · 01:07:27

✨ Oscar Pierre recounts Glovo's near-failures and eventual $2.2BN acquisition.

Oscar Pierre

01:07:27

20VC: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | NVIDIA vs AMD: Who Wins and Why | The Future of Inference vs Training | The Economics of Compute & Why To Win You Must Have Product, Data & Compute with Steeve Morin @ ZML

Feb 24, 2025 · 01:12:32

✨ Steeve Morin predicts Google will win the AI race over OpenAI.

Steeve Morin @ ZML

01:12:32

20VC Exclusive: Mercor Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation: Scaling to $70M in ARR in 24 Months | 9-9-6: 9AM-9PM - 6 Days Per Week: The Most Intense Culture in Silicon Valley | The Future of Programming, Models and Data with Adarsh Hiremath

Feb 20, 2025 · 45:55

✨ Mercor raised $100M at a $2BN valuation, reaching $70M ARR in 24 months.

Adarsh Hiremath

45:55

20VC: NVIDIA vs Groq: The Future of Training vs Inference | Meta, Google, and Microsoft's Data Center Investments: Who Wins | Data, Compute, Models: The Core Bottlenecks in AI & Where Value Will Distribute with Jonathan Ross, Founder @ Groq

Feb 17, 2025 · 01:20:48

✨ NVIDIA vs. Groq: The future of AI training versus inference is debated.

Jonathan Ross

01:20:48

20VC: From Penniless Printing Shop Offices to Public Company and One of the Largest Entertainment Companies: The Story of LADbible | The Future of Content & Social Media | US vs Europe: Is Europe F****** with Solly Solomou

Feb 14, 2025 · 59:30

✨ LADbible's journey from a printing shop to a major entertainment company is shared.

Solly Solomou

59:30

20VC: Monzo: The Greatest Turnaround in Tech: From £40M Revenues, Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS to $1BN in Revenue, Profitable and 10M Customers with TS Anil, CEO @ Monzo

Feb 13, 2025 · 56:15

✨ Monzo achieved a remarkable turnaround, growing revenue from £40M to £1BN.

56:15

20VC: The $5BN Company Built from the Belgian Countryside | The Story of Odoo: The Company with No Plans to Sell, IPO & Their Billionaire Founder Who Does Not Care About Money with Fabien Pinckaers, Founder & CEO @ Odoo

Feb 12, 2025 · 01:15:54

✨ Odoo's founder Fabien Pinckaers built a $650M ARR company from Belgium.

Fabien Pinckaers

01:15:54

20VC: Why Model Providers Will Kill Many Startups Moving into the Application Layer | Why Deepseek is not a Threat to OpenAI & Why OpenAI Beats Anthropic | Apps vs Models vs Infrastructure: Where is Value in AI with Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake CEO

Feb 10, 2025 · 55:14

✨ Sridhar Ramaswamy discusses how model providers may impact application layer startups.

Sridhar Ramaswamy

55:14

20Product: Product Secrets Behind Uber and Opendoor | How AI Changes the Role of the PM & The Product Development Process | How to Hire the Best Product Teams & What No One Does That Everyone Should Do with Brian Tolkin

Feb 7, 2025 · 44:54

✨ Brian Tolkin shares product secrets from Uber and Opendoor.

Brian Tolkin

44:54

20VC: Affirm Max Levchin on Why Grading Talent by Letter (A or B) is Total BS | How to Create a Culture of Post Mortems and Writing | Why You Should Only Study Failure Not Success & The Biggest Surprises Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap

Feb 5, 2025 · 01:02:25

✨ Max Levchin critiques grading talent by letter grades (A or B).

01:02:25

20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | How Lime Built the Global Leader in Micromobility When Competitors Went Bust | Losing 90% of Revenues in COVID and The Uber Deal That Saved the Company with Wayne Ting

Jan 30, 2025 · 01:06:14

✨ Lime's CEO Wayne Ting details the company's turnaround from losses to $90M EBITDA.

Wayne Ting

01:06:14

20VC: Deepseek Special: Is Deepseek a Weapon of the CCP | How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | Why $500BN for Stargate is Not Enough | The Future of Inference, NVIDIA and Foundation Models with Jonathan Ross @ Groq

Jan 30, 2025 · 55:08

✨ Jonathan Ross discusses Deepseek's potential ties to the CCP and US response.

Jonathan Ross @ Groq

55:08

20Sales: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation & How to Teach Them | Verticalised Sales Playbooks: When and How | How the Best Sales Reps and Leaders Structure Their Time with Carlos Delatorre, CRO @ Harness

Jan 24, 2025 · 01:08:24

✨ Carlos Delatorre emphasizes pipeline generation for sales reps and verticalized playbooks.

Carlos Delatorre

01:08:24

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