Episodes

March 10, 2025

20VC: Lessons from Investing $2BN and Returning $8BN in Cash | Why Mo…

Jake Saper is a General Partner @ Emergence Capital, one of the leading venture firms of the last 20 years. Their many wins include being early investors in Salesforce, Zoom, Veeva and more. In total, the firm has invested $2BN and returned an...

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March 6, 2025

20Sales: Everything You Know About Sales Playbooks is Wrong | How to …

Julian Teixeira is the Chief Revenue Officer at 1Password, where he has grown B2B revenue over 8x and scaled a team of more than 450 in go-to-market. 1Password set the record for the largest raise in Canadian history at the start of 2022 and has...

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March 4, 2025

20VC: Lovable on Hitting $17.5M in ARR in 3 Months | Adding $2.1M ARR…

Anton Osika is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable, the fastest growing startup in Europe. With Lovable, you can turn your idea into an app in seconds with just a prompt. After just 3 months, the company has scaled to $17.5M in ARR. They are adding $2M...

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March 2, 2025

20VC: Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: Where Will Value Be Created in a Wo…

Mike Krieger is the Co-Founder of Instagram and now CPO @ Anthropic.  In Today’s Episode with Mike Krieger We Discuss: 03:07 Where Will Value Be Created and Sustained in a World of AI? 04:59 Are Foundation Models Commoditised Today? 08:36...

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Feb. 27, 2025

20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Gr…

George Bonaci is the VP of Growth at Ramp, where he’s helping one of the fastest-growing fintech companies scale even further. Prior to Ramp, George was VP of Growth at Gong. Before Gong, George was at Samsara where he helped grow revenue from...

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Feb. 25, 2025

20VC: The Insane Story of Glovo: Selling 30% of the Company for €100K…

Oscar Pierre is the Founder and CEO @ Glovo, the food delivery site that will get you anything you want to your doorstep. This story is insane, the company was started by Oscar 11 years ago, in their pre-seed round they sold ⅓ of the company for...

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Feb. 23, 2025

20VC: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | NVIDIA…

Steeve Morin is the Founder & CEO @ ZML, a next-generation inference engine enabling peak performance on a wide range of chips. Prior to founding ZML, Steeve was the VP Engineering at Zenly for 7 years leading eng to millions of users and an...

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Feb. 19, 2025

20VC Exclusive: Mercor Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation: Scaling to $…

Adarsh Hiremath is the Co-Founder and CTO @ Mercor, an AI recruitment platform and one of the fastest-growing companies in technology. They have scaled to $70M in ARR in just 24 months. They are famed for working 6 days per week, 9AM to 9PM. All of...

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Feb. 16, 2025

20VC: NVIDIA vs Groq: The Future of Training vs Inference | Meta, Goo…

Jonathan Ross is the Founder & CEO of Groq, the creator of the world’s  first Language Processing Unit (LPUTM). Prior to Groq, Jonathan began  what became Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as a 20% project where he  designed...

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Feb. 13, 2025

20VC: From Penniless Printing Shop Offices to Public Company and One …

Founder and CEO of LADbible Group, Solly Solomou has built one of the largest and most engaged digital media entertainment companies in the world. Under his leadership, LADbible has grown to reach two-thirds of 18-34-year-olds in the UK, with a global...

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Feb. 13, 2025

20VC: Monzo: The Greatest Turnaround in Tech: From £40M Revenues, Lay…

TS Anil is the CEO @ Monzo, where he has been the mastermind behind the greatest turnaround in tech in the last 10 years. When TS took over at Monzo they had £40M in revenue, very little runway, had a 40% down round and had large layoffs and low...

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Feb. 11, 2025

20VC: The $5BN Company Built from the Belgian Countryside | The Story…

Fabien Pinckaers is the Founder & CEO of Odoo, one of the most incredible businesses that you might not have heard of. Built from the countryside of Belgium, they do an astonishing $650M in ARR, they have over 5,000 employees and have over 50,000...

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Feb. 9, 2025

20VC: Why Model Providers Will Kill Many Startups Moving into the App…

Sridhar Ramaswamy is the CEO @ Snowflake, the $60BN public company with $3.5BN in revenue growing 30% per year. Sridhar joined Snowflake following his company, Neeva, being acquired by them for $150M. Prior to founding Neeva, Ramaswamy spent 15 years...

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Feb. 6, 2025

20Product: Product Secrets Behind Uber and Opendoor | How AI Changes …

Brian Tolkin is the Head of Product @ Opendoor where he has spent the last 6 years and is responsible for product strategy and product and design teams. Before Opendoor, Brian spent an incredible 5 years at Uber through their wildest growth periods....

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Feb. 5, 2025

20VC: Affirm Max Levchin on Why Grading Talent by Letter (A or B) is …

Max Levchin is one of the great founders and technologists of our time. As the Founder and CEO of Affirm, he has built am $18.7BN monster in the buy no pay later space. Prior to Affirm he was one of the original co-founders of PayPal. Max is also the...

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Feb. 2, 2025

20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why…

Nabeel Hyatt is a General Partner @ Spark Capital, one of the leading firms of the last decade with portfolio companies including Twitter, Anthropic, Coinbase, Affirm, Discord, Deel and more.  In Todays Show with Nabeel Hyatt We Discuss: 1. The...

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Jan. 30, 2025

20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITD…

Wayne Ting is CEO of Lime. The global leader in micromobility, the first to achieve a fully profitable year (2022). Last year, Lime did over $600M in gross bookings, $90M in EBITDA. Their 4-year top-line CAGR is 30%. Before joining Lime, Wayne spent...

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Jan. 30, 2025

20VC: Deepseek Special: Is Deepseek a Weapon of the CCP | How Should …

Jonathan Ross is the Co-Founder and CEO of Groq, providing fast AI inference. Prior to founding Groq, Jonathan started Google’s TPU effort where he designed and implemented the core elements of the original chip. Jonathan then joined Google X’s...

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Jan. 23, 2025

20Sales: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation & How to T…

Carlos Delatorre is one of the legendary go-to-market leaders of the last 20 years. Today, Carlos is the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Harness, where he oversees global sales and go-to-market (GTM) operations. Before Harness, Carlos was the CRO @...

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Jan. 21, 2025

20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundatio…

George Sivulka is the founder and CEO of Hebbia, is one of the fastest-growing gen AI companies and they recently raised a $130M series B. Investors include the company include hailed names such as a16z, Peter Thiel, Index, GV and others.  In...

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Jan. 19, 2025

20VC: Why Large Seed Rounds Increase the Chances of Success | When to…

Hussein Kanji is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hoxton Ventures, one of Europe’s leading early-stage firms with mega wins in the form of Darktrace and Deliveroo. Hussein cut his teeth in venture at Accel Partners in his early years.  In...

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Jan. 16, 2025

20VC: Monday.com: Scaling from $6M to $120M in ARR in 3 Years | How M…

The story of Monday.com is insane, turned down by most VCs, then scaled from $6M to $120M ARR in just three years. Today the company is public with a market cap of $12BN. Joining us in the hotseat today is Monday's Co-Founder and CEO, Eran...

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Jan. 14, 2025

20VC: Why Scaling Laws Will Not Continue | OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.a…

Victor Riparbelli is the CEO and Co-founder of Synthesia, the world’s leading AI video communications platform for enterprises. To date, Victor has raised over $250M from Accel, GV, NEA, and more. More than 1,000,000 users and 55,000 businesses,...

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Jan. 12, 2025

20VC: Shervin Pishevar on The Epic Uber War and What Really Happened …

Shervin Pishevar is a serial entrepreneur and investor. Shervin is famed for leading Uber’s Series B at Menlo alongside leading Warby Parker’s Series A and investing in Tumblr, all in just 18 months at Menlo. Following Menlo, Shervin co-founded...

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