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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: Anthropic's Superbowl Ad: Who Won - Who Lost | Harvey Raises $200M at $11BN Valuation | Sierra Hits $150M in ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded

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20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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20Growth: Inside Kraken’s $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn’t and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta

Issues

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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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