The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Do Rich Founders Make Better Founders | The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time | Why SPACs Will Come Back | Why Short Sellers Should Be Banned | Is Trump Better for Business than Biden with Jason Wilk @ Dave
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 Wilk is the Founder and CEO of Dave, the greatest turnaround in the public markets of the last 12 months. Dave went public with a market cap of $4BN, just months later the company had a market cap of $50M. Today, they are back with a market cap of $1.1BN. In 2024, CNBC named Dave the best-performing financial stock in the country, achieving 900% growth.
In Today's Episode We Discuss:
Do Rich Founders Make Better Founders
The Best Performing Fund Would Only Invest in YC Founders on Their Second Time
"We Went Public Too Late, It Was a Big Mistake"
Why Did Jason Choose to SPAC?
Why Does Jason Believe SPACs are Unfairly Demonised and Will Comeback?
How Does AI Change the Margin Structure of the Next Generation of Companies
Is Trump Better for Business than a Biden Administration?
Are We Heading into a Recession? Predictions for Next 12 Months?
Why Have No Neobanks Reached the Heights of Revolut in the US?
Why is the Opportunity in Low Income Banking Not High Income in the US?
Why Short Sellers Should Be Stopped and How Immoral They Are
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