The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Victor Lazarte on Why Portfolio Construction is BS| Why SaaS Spreadsheet Investing is Dead | Why China is a Stabilising Force for the US | Three Traits All the Best Founders Have & The Lie All Big Tech Companies Have Been Telling
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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Victor Lazarte is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the mot renowned venture firms in the world. At Benchmark, Victor has led deals into the likes of HeyGen and Mercor. As an angel, he was the first investor and board member of Brex, and as a Founder he scaled Wildlife Studios, bootstrapping into the largest gaming company in LatAm, with about 4 billion downloads.
In Today's Episode We Discuss:
Lessons Scaling Wildlife Studios to 4BN Downloads
Why Predicting the Future is Wrong When Starting a Company
Three Different Categories of Company in an AI World: Who Wins & Loses?
Why You Should Always Ask What a Founder Does in Their Free Time?
Two Traits That All the Best Founders Have?
Why If You Start a Company in SF You are 1,000x More Likely to be Successful?
Why Spreadsheet SaaS Investing is Dead
Why Replacing Humans is the Most Exciting Opportunity in AI
Why Knowledge Work Will Be Destroyed and What Happens Then?
Why China is a Stabilising Force for the US
China vs. US: The AI Race
Why All Students Today Should Study Computer Science
Why Portfolio Construction is BS
What Makes Peter Fenton One of the Best Ever
Why Duolingo Will Be One of the Most Valuable Companies in the World
Quick Fire Round: Insights and Predictions
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