The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV
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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Mike Mignano is a General Partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the most iconic venture firms in the world, whose investments include Coinbase, Stripe, Etsy, Twilio, Cloudflare. Before joining USV, Mike was a Partner at Lightspeed, where he backed breakout AI companies including Granola and Suno. Prior to investing, he co-founded Anchor, acquired by Spotify.
AGENDA:
Is Fear of Failure the Secret Weapon Behind Great Founders?
Why Leave Lightspeed for USV — and Is Thesis-Driven Venture Still Alive?
Is the Real AI Money Still in Infrastructure, or Are Apps Finally About to Explode?
Who Wins the AI Model War: OpenAI, Anthropic, Open Source, or the "Rebel Alliance"?
Are We About to Hand Our Entire Lives Over to AI Agents?
Can Anthropic Keep Growing Like This — or Will Token Spend Break the Model?
Can AI Routing Become a $50BN Company, or Is It Just a Commodity Pipe?
Will the AI Energy Crisis Create the Next Monster Venture Outcomes?
Can Startups Survive Microsoft, OpenAI, and the Brutal Power of Bundling?
Should VCs Ignore Price When Backing Generational Companies?
Is Traditional Media Dead — and Who Becomes the New Tech Kingmaker?
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