The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Horizontal vs Vertical Agents: Who Wins | Model Routing: Commodity or Increasing in Value | The Future of the Inference Market | Why Founders Should Take Discounts for Tier 1 Firms with Harrison Chase, LangChain
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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Harrison Chase is the co-founder and CEO of LangChain, which helps developers build, test and deploy AI agents.
Backed by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and IVP, LangChain has announced approximately $160 million in funding with the last round at a $1.25BN valuation. The company works with 35% of the Fortune 500, has surpassed one billion open-source downloads and processes over one billion events daily through LangSmith.
AGENDA:
Why Is It Still So Hard to Build AI Agents?
Will the Model Labs Eat the Agent Stack?
Is Model Routing a Real Business or a Commodity?
Why Has No One Solved AI Memory?
Why Are AI Bills Exploding as Tokens Get Cheaper?
Should Companies Be Afraid of Chinese AI Models?
Where Would Harrison Not Be Investing Today?
Should Founders Take a Discount for Benchmark and Sequoia?
OpenAI at $1.5T or Anthropic at $2T: Which Would You Buy?
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