The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Threatened by Kimi? | Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | Should Openrouter Sell & Value in the Routing Layer? | Stripe Buying Paypal: What You Need to Know
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:
China's Kimi and Qwen Put Frontier AI on Notice00:08 Washington Debates Whether Chinese AI Models Should Be Banned Can America Build a Profitable Open-Weight AI Champion? OpenRouter's Moment: Is This the Perfect Time to Sell? Fireworks' $1.5B Raise Signals the Real AI Money Is in Infrastructure Why Every Great AI App May Need to Build Its Own Model Stripe's Bold Play to Buy PayPal The AI Funding Frenzy: Why Late-Stage Venture Is Winning Nuclear Startups Go Wild While Databricks and Stripe Stay Private The AI Supply Chain War: TSMC, ASML, DRAM—and Nvidia's Next Move
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