The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Dario and Anthropic Declare War on Open-Source | Coinbase Slash AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40BN Valuation and Impending IPO | Bending Spoons: Smartest IPO of 2026 and the Year for SaaS Roll-Ups
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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Show Notes
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AGENDA:
Coinbase Slashes AI Spend 50%—Is the AI Token Bubble Bursting?
Anthropic Warns Open Source Could Destroy the AI Business Model
Dario Escalates the AI War with China & Open-Source
Should the US Ban Chinese AI Models?
Microsoft's AI Strategy Is Breaking Down
Kalshi's $40B Valuation Signals a New Consumer Gold Rush
Has SpaceX Frozen the AI IPO Market?
Why Bending Spoons May Be the Smartest IPO of the Year
The $100B Opportunity to Buy Broken SaaS Companies
Which Software Companies Would Jason Buy Tomorrow?
The Great AI Talent War Is About to Get Worse
Every Company Is Becoming an AI Company—or Dying
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