The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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
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.
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Jason James is the Co-Founder of Tezi and one of the leading product minds in the valley. Prior to Tezi, Jason was the VP Product at Instacart and before that was Head of Product and Design at Thumbtack.
AGENDA:
Product lessons scaling Instacart to $40B – what really moves the needle
Why "quick optimizations" won't build billion-dollar products
MVPs are dead? How AI is reshaping product development
Do startups even need PMs anymore in the age of AI?
The biggest product mistake Jason made building Tezi
Why most hiring managers fail at recruiting
The resume trap: how to spot if someone was just "on the elevator up"
The three roles founders always end up firing
Are most CPOs actually terrible?
The myth of startup "culture" – why growth is the only thing that matters
Did DoorDash actually beat Instacart? The inside take
Fundraising secrets founders never realize until it's too late
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