The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: From $6.2BN Market Cap to $2.8BN: What Is Not Translating About Navan's Public Story | Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy? | Why Navan Built It's Own Customer Service AI and What it Could Mean For Customer Service AI with Ariel Cohen
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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Ariel Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Navan (formerly TripActions), an AI-powered travel and expense platform. Last month, Ariel took the company public, since being a public company, they have faced a torrid time seeing stock price decline by 50%. The company is currently valued between $4BN-$5BN.
AGENDA:
The Truth About Going Public After 11 Years
Why We Couldn't Wait: The Real Reason for the IPO
Disrupting the Giants: Amex, Concur, and the $1T Opportunity
"If We Don't Build This, We're Dead": Seeing ChatGPT Early
Why Navan Built Their Own Customer Service AI
Why Infrastructure is Overrated (and What Actually Matters)
Vibe Coding: How We Rebuilt Our Product in 6 Hours
Are Any Public Company CEOs Actually Happy?
Lessons from Robinhood: Energy, Ethics, and the Stock Price
The Cost of Success: $1B Mistakes and Parenting Regrets
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