The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Leading Anthropic's First Ever Round | Will Open Source Threaten Anthropic's Business | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Why Triple, Triple, Double, Double is Not Good Enough Today | Why Series A is Hard Today with Matt Murphy @ Menlo
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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Matt Murphy is a Partner at Menlo Ventures, who just raised $3 billion in fresh capital, its largest pool ever. Matt's portfolio includes Anthropic, Lovable, Legora, OpenRouter, Chai Discovery, Axiom, OpenEvidence and more.
AGENDA:
Why Menlo Broke All Its Investing Rules to Back Anthropic Why Ownership Matters Less in an Outlier-Driven Venture Market Do We Have an SPV Problem in Venture Today? Do Margins Still Matter in AI? Why Open Source Won't Derail Anthropic's Growth Does Every Model Provider Need to Build Its Own Chips? Why Anthropic Is Not a Threat to Legora Why Series A Is the Hardest Place to Invest Today Why Signalling Is B.S. and Every Fund Is Going Full Stack Why Building a Company in Europe Is Hard Mode Why Triple-Triple-Double-Double Is No Longer Venture-Scale Growth
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