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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of

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Latest analyzed episodes

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20VC: Inside Accel's $4BN Growth Investing Machine | Cursor is Dead is Total BS: Here is Why | What Missing Rippling and ElevenLabs Taught Us | Are $2BN-$10BN IPOs Dead | Why Now is a Great Time to be Thoma Bravo with Miles Clements

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20VC: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is BS | Why China Will Win the AI War | Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist and are Tourists | Why Stock-Based Comp is the Hidden Sin of the Valley with Mitchell Green, Lead Edge Capital

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20VC: Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR | Block's 40% Headcount Reduction: AI or Overhiring

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20VC: Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Will Systems of Record Become Valueless Databases in an Agentic World | Will LLMs Own the Value in the Application Layer with Eran Zinman

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20VC: Why Cursor is Dead | An AI Tsunami is Coming & You Need to Prepare | Systems of Record Become Valueless Databases with Agents | Is This The End of Tech Private Equity with Jerry Murdock, Co-Founder of Insight Partners

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20VC: Anthropic Wipes Billions Off Markets | Citrini Research: The Ultimate Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend etc. | Figma Earnings Beat & Four Public Stocks to Buy | Jack Altman Joins Benchmark

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20VC: Inside Coatue's $7BN Growth Fund: Why Price Matters Least | Why Mega Markets are the Most Important | How Mega Funds Can Still Do 5x Returns | How to Assess Durability of Revenue and Margins in AI with Lucas Swisher

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20VC: Codex vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Who Wins, Who Loses | Will All Coding Be Automated - Do We Need PMs | The Real Bottleneck to AGI | The Three Phases of Agents and What You Need to Know with Alex Embiricos, Head of Codex at OpenAI

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20VC: Anthropic Raises $30BN at $380BN Valuation | Thrive Raises New $10BN Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe Raises at $140BN: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? | Monday, Figma, Shopify: Which are Buys vs Sells?

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20VC: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World | What Revenue Multiple Will Software Companies Trade At? | From 7,000 to 3,000: We Need Less People Than Ever with Sebastian Siemiatkowski

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TL;DL AI Digest 2026-05-17

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TL;DL AI Digest 2026-05-09

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TL;DL AI Digest 2026-05-07

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TL;DL AI Digest 2026-04-18

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AI Agents, Inference, and the New Stack

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AI Agents Are Rewiring Physical Industry

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AI Is Moving From Software to the Physical World

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AI Agents Are Rebooting the SaaS Playbook

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AI Agents and Decentralized Inference Threaten SaaS

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AI Agents vs Human Craft — Music to SaaS

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AI Agents Fuel SaaS Layoffs and 'Ghost GDP

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LLM Platforms Are the New SaaS Moat

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Private AI Platforms Outsmart Public SaaS — Scale, Stickiness, Margins

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AI Agents Make Plumbers the New SaaS Builders

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AI Agents Concentrate Capital, Repricing SaaS Winners

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AI Agents Multiply Solo Founders, Upend the SaaS Playbook

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AI Agents Turn Solo Founders Into Billion-Dollar SaaS

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Will AI Unbundle SaaS?

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Snowflake scaling, sales-marketing alignment, founder-led sales, AI sales automation, consumption-based pricing

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GTM Strategy from Lovable and Calendly CEO

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a16z Marc Andreessen, Windsurf founder

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How AI is Reshaping Sales

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AGI|a16z, Sam Altman, Scaling Laws, Startup Opportunity|20VC

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AI integration, Customer success strategies, Financial operations automation, Scaling SaaS growth, Product development principles

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The Cloud AI Era with BVP, Multi-model integration, AI scalability challenges, Specialized AI solutions, Transformative AI impact

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AI product development, Instruction tuning, Vertical SaaS strategies, Crossover funds, Market competition dynamics

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AI agents reliability, AGI funding strategies, conscious leadership principles, capability vs. performance, emotional intelligence in leadership

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Secrets, Strategies, and Surprises from Top Product Leaders

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OpenAI's Voice Revolution, Meta's Celeb Chatbots, and the Tech Labor Showdown

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Marketplace dynamics, Supply chain innovation, AI in entrepreneurship, User experience focus, Community integration

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International expansion strategies, Sales and customer success alignment, Growth metrics for fundraising, AI in sales processes, Targeted outbound sales

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Graph databases, AI strategy, Product leadership, Commoditization of models, Employee performance evaluation

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AI in SEO, User-centered strategies, High-quality data, Subscription growth tactics, Open source innovation

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