The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation
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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Hemant Taneja is the CEO and leader of General Catalyst, the firm he has scaled over the last decade into one of the largest with over $40BN in AUM. He has been one of the most influential investors of the past two decades, leading early bets in Stripe, Snap, Gusto, Samsara, Grammarly, and Canva. He also played a pivotal role in Livongo's $18.5B merger with Teladoc, one of the largest digital health deals in history.
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Introduction
Is Hemant a CEO or an Investor?
With $40BN AUM Is General Catalyst Still a VC Firm?
Has Trump Done More to Hurt or Help the US?
No One is Talking About the True Impact of AI on Jobs
Is Hemant Concerned by the Concentration of Value in MAG 7?
Has Trump Done More to Hurt or Help the US?
GC's Anthropic Investment: Upside from a $60BN Price
Do Margins Matter in a World of AI
Does Revenue Growth Matter in a World of AI
Why it is BS to Turn Down a Company Based on Price
We Have Invested $5BN Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds
VC is About To Be Flooded with Retail Investment: What Does It Mean for VC
"What I Learned Losing the Series A of Snap, Stripe, Samsara"
Future of Venture Capital: Walmart vs Chanel
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