The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Figma's IPO: The Full Breakdown | Index Returns $3.5BN on Two Deals | Why Melio's $2.5BN Acquisition is "Discouraging" | Asana's New CEO and the Great Founder Exodus | Oracle's $30BN AI Deal and What it Means for Incumbents
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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AGENDA:
– $400B in AI CapEx: Rational Investment or Madness?
– Figma's IPO: Rule of 80, $1.5B in cash, 40% margins. Unreal.
– Adobe Screwed the Deal—Should They Have Just Bought Canva?
– Pay-to-Play Deals: Heroic Hail Mary or Guaranteed Write-Off?
– How Index Is Returning $3.5B on 2 Deals
– Melio's $2.5B Exit: Insane Growth… So Why Did They Sell?!
– Massive Penthouses and the Death of Focus: AI Founders Beware
– Chime, Anthropic, Menlo & The Art of Selling LPs the Future
– Couchbase Acquired: PE Buyers Are Back… Or Are They?
– Why No One's Buying These 9-Figure SaaS Zombies
– If You Didn't Grow from AI By June 30, You're Already Dead
– Superhuman vs The AI-Natives: Who Wins the Replatforming War?
– Oracle's $30B AI Deal: Larry Did It Before You Even Started
– Scale Is Dead. Long Live Surge. The AI Data War Gets Bloody.
– Asana CEO Move & the Great Founder Exodus of 2025
– Will Cluely's Founder Be a Billionaire by 2029? Place Your Bets
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