The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: NVIDIA Bonanza: Buys Poolside & Invests in Mercor and Perplexity | Anthropic's $30TRN Revenue Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service, Defence and Robotics are Overinflated
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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NVIDIA Launches a Three-Deal Blitz Across the AI Stack NVIDIA's $12BN Poolside Deal Exposes Frontier AI's Capital Wall NVIDIA Moves to Back Mercor at $20BN and Perplexity at $30BN OpenAI Confirms 2027 IPO as Anthropic Seizes the Lead Hugging Face Draws $13BN Takeover Interest as Open Models Boom Citadel Cashes Out 80% of Its Leopold Aschenbrenner AI Trade AI Boom Is "Less Than One-Third Over"—But Token Addiction Has a Price Stripe Reaccelerates to 41% as AI Reshapes Software's Leaderboard Instinct Security Scare Exposes Why AI Agents Still Cannot Be Trusted VCs Name AI's Biggest Bubbles: Support, Defense, Humanoids and Roll-Ups
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