The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: OpenAI's $6BN Jony Ive Deal | YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart—and Has Officially Won | Builder.ai Implodes and Hinge IPOs: Who Wins & Who Loses | Seed Is Easy. Series A Is Brutal & The Dirty Truth About Late-Stage Venture
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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Show Notes
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Agenda:
– Why "Fund Returners" Are a Myth in Late-Stage VC
– Builder.ai Implodes: $500M Gone & Fraud Allegations Begin
– The Dirty Truth About Late-Stage Venture Math
– The Hinge IPO: Who Won, Who Lost, and Why It's a Game Changer
– The Chime Bombshell: Late-Stage VCs Forced to Crystallize Huge Losses
– Why YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart—and Has Officially Won
– Seed Is Easy. Series A Is Brutal. Here's Why
– The Silent Killer: How Dilution Is Screwing VCs Without Them Realizing
– OpenAI's $6B Jony Ive Deal: Genius or Delusion?
– Does OpenAI Win the Hardware War
– Duolingo, Klarna, and the Truth About AI Layoffs
– Only 20% of Unicorns Are Real. The Other 80%? Zombies
– Why 2021 Had an IPO Every Day — And Why That Won't Return Soon
– Quickfire: AGI Dates, Half-Trillionaires, and Trump Tax Moves
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