The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
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.
If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and more.
Show Notes
Tap timecodes to jump
Max Altman is Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at Saga Ventures, a US$125 M early‑stage fund. Before Saga Max was an investor with Apollo Projects, Hydrazine Capital and Altman Capital (where he helped deploy over US$500 M) into breakout names such as Rippling and Reddit.
AGENDA:
– Venture Capital Is FULL of Tourists With Single-Digit IQs
– Inside the Madness of Parker Conrad: Genius, Chaos, and WTF Emails
– The Rippling Deal That Changed Everything
– Living in Sam Altman's Shadow: The Confession
– $200M Fund Mistakes: Max's Brutal Lessons From Hydrazine
– The $2B Reddit Return… and the $2B Left on the Table
– Why Climate Tech Is a Total VC Mirage
– The New Seed War: Can Anyone Survive Sequoia & Andreessen?
– Max's Boldest Predictions
Transcript not yet processed.
Sign in to unlock (1 credit)
Free to start
Full transcripts, AI insights,
Full transcripts, AI insights,
episode chat — free.
Sign up with Google in one click. 10 unlock credits included. No card needed.
Google sign-in · No credit card · Cancel anytime