The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra
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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Clay Bavor is the Co-Founder of Sierra, one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise AI companies. Sierra is valued at approximately $15.8 billion, has raised more than $1.5BN from leading investors including Sequoia, Benchmark, Greenoaks, GV and Tiger Global, and today serves more than 40% of the Fortune 50. The company recently surpassed $150 ARR, making it one of the fastest-growing enterprise software businesses in history.
AGENDA:
– Why Frontier AI Demand Will Be Unlimited
– Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins?
– China's AI Advantage & The Distillation Debate
– Inside Sierra: The AI Agents Running the Entire Company
– The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Soon Need
– Building AI for 40% of the Fortune 50
– Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI
– Sierra's Unusual Board Meetings & Billion-Dollar Company Playbook
– The Four Values Behind a $16B Startup: Craftsmanship, Intensity & Family
– Clay Bavor's Hiring Philosophy, AI-First Teams & What's Coming Next
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