20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC, hosted by Harry Stebbings, takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join Harry and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. The Twenty Minute VC also provides an instructional guide as to what it takes to get employed in the Venture Capital industry, with VCs giving specific advice on how to get noticed from the crowd and increasing your chances of employment. Our amazing Venture Capitalists also provide their analysis of the current technology market, providing advice and suggestions on the latest investing trends and predictions. Join us so you can see how you can get big, powerful improvements, fast.
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Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation
Alex Bouaziz discusses Deel's remarkable growth journey, including their recent $300M fundraise at a $17BN valuation, achieving $1BN+ in ARR, and their first $100M revenue month. The conversation covers their acquisition strategy, leadership culture, fundraising during Covid, and insights on scaling a global payroll company while remaining profitable for over 3 years.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition
A discussion covering major tech industry moves including Goldman Sachs's $665M acquisition of Industry Ventures, Thinking Machines co-founder's $2BN raise before joining Meta, SoftBank's $5BN leverage against ARM stock for OpenAI investment, and insights into venture capital portfolio management and future alpha generation in 2025.
20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with Mike Cannon-Brookes
Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian, the $50BN software giant behind products like Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Since founding the company in 2002, he has scaled it to over 300,000 customers globally, generating more than $5BN in annual revenue. Atlassian now employs over 10,000 people across 13 countries and is one of the most successful bootstrapped-to-IPO stories in tech history. Mike is also a leading climate investor and co-owner of several major sports teams.
20VC: OpenAI's Multi $BN Deal with AMD | Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds | Does King Making Really Work in Venture Capital: Harvey vs Legora | Chamath is Back: The SPAC is Back
A discussion covering major tech industry developments including OpenAI's partnership with AMD, Microsoft's OpenAI partnership challenges, OpenAI's Developer Day announcements, venture capital valuations, IPO prospects for 2025, Vercel's $300M raise, and insights into kingmaking in venture capital. The episode also covers the return of SPACs and Polymarket's significant funding round.
20VC: Cerebras CEO on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO | NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Worried About Growth | Concentration of Value in Mag7: Will the AI Train Come to a Halt | Can the US Supply the Energy for AI with Andrew Feldman
Andrew Feldman is Co-Founder & CEO of Cerebras, building the world's fastest AI inference and training. Cerebras recently closed a $1.1BN Series G round at an $8.1 billion valuation, backed by top names including Fidelity, Atreides, Tiger Global, Valor Equity and 1789 Capital. Under his leadership, they’ve leapfrogged GPU limits in inference, operate at trillions of tokens per month, and are filing to go public soon.
20VC: Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World | Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy | Klarna, Figma, Stubhub, all Down: Are Public Markets Turning? | FiveTran and DBT: Is the Wave of Consolidation About to Begin?
Harry Stebbings sits down with Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll to tackle the biggest topics in startups and venture today—burn multiples, AI-driven metrics, the rise of kingmakers, market resets, Sam Altman's trillion-dollar energy bet, looming consolidation in data, private equity's future, and the role of politics in business.
20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips | NVIDIA Will Be Worth $10TRN | How to Solve the Energy Required for AI... Nuclear | Why China is Behind the US in the Race for AGI with Jonathan Ross, Groq Founder
Jonathan Ross is the Founder & CEO of Groq, the AI chip company redefining inference at scale. Under his leadership, Groq has raised over $3B from top investors. The company has reached a valuation of nearly $7B, positioning itself as one of NVIDIA's most formidable challengers. Previously at Google, Jonathan led the team that built the first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), making him one of the leading architects of modern AI hardware.
20VC: NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead | Navan Files to go Public & Notion Hits $500M ARR | The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US
20VC: Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll & Harry Stebbings on Nvidia's $100BN OpenAI Investment, H-1B Visa Impact, Notion's $500M ARR, Navan IPO & more.