20VC: Why Fund Returners Are Not Enough Anymore | Why Sequoia Had the Best Strategy at the Worst Time | What it Takes to Be Good at Series A and B Today | Benchmark Leads Manus Round: Should US Funds Invest in Chinese AI
In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
03:56 Why The Risk Lever Has Been Turned Higher than Ever in VC
06:04 Why IRR is the Hardest Thing to Control
09:36 Is Lack of Liquidity Short Term Temporary or Long Term Structural
12:17 Why Fund Returners Are Not Good Enough Anymore
16:03 Sequoia: The Best Strategy at the Worst Time
26:30 What it Takes to be Good at Series A and B Today
34:14 Only Three Company Types Survive AI
41:35 ServiceNow: 25% Pop, WTF Happened
45:29 Palantir and SAP Ripping: Do Incumbents Win AI
49:43 Are Benchmark Wrong to Invest in Chinese Made Manus
01:00:52 Geopolitical Risks in Investments
01:11:36 European vs. US Tech Culture
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.
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.
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