20VC: Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win | Windsurf Sells For $3BN | Decagon Raises at 100x ARR | Do Mega Funds Win the Future of VC | What Does Harvard's Losing Their For-Profit Status Mean for VC
Today’s Topics:
04:44 Analysis of $3 Billion Windsurf Acquisition
12:39 Will Mega Funds Win the Future of Venture Capital
18:39 Does Every Fund Have to do Pre-Seed to Win Series A and B Today
27:53 Why AI Will Create Massive Unemployment
31:06 The $100,000 Bet on the Future of Work
35:52 Why Venture Has Become a Bundled Good
37:52 Why Stage Specific Firms Will Win: a16z vs Benchmark
40:16 What Does Harvard Losing It’s For Profit Status Mean for Venture
42:57 Why AI is Maiming and Not Killing Growth Companies on the Path to IPO
45:41 Decagon Raises 100x ARR: The Breakdown
52:50 Why VCs Are Upside Junkies and What That Means Today
01:03:37 Olo Looking to Sell: What Happens When Public Companies Want to Sell
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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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