Episodes

Jan. 9, 2025

20VC: The Future of Foundation Models | The Future of AI Consumer App…

Mikey Shulman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Suno, the leading music AI company. Suno lets everyone make and share music. Mikey has raised over $125M for the company from the likes of Lightspeed, Founder Collective and Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross....

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Jan. 8, 2025

20VC: Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets: From $60BN to $…

Carvana is one of the most wild stories in the public markets. The company IPO’d with a market cap of $2BN before skyrocketing to $60BN, only for the company to lose 99% of it’s value hitting a bottom of $400M market cap. Today the company is...

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Jan. 5, 2025

20VC: How To Do a 10x Seed Fund in 2025 | Three Frameworks to Evaluat…

Mike Maples is one of the OG seed investors of the last two decades. As a co-founding Partner at Floodgate, Mike has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade. Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Clover Health,...

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Dec. 19, 2024

20Sales: Rippling's CRO on Why Founders Should Not Create Sales Playb…

Matt Plank is Rippling's Chief Revenue Officer where he oversees all Sales and Account Management functions in the US and Internationally. Matt joined Rippling in the very early days when Parker Conrad (founder) was building V1 in a basement with $0...

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Dec. 18, 2024

20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** |…

Daniel Dines is the Founder & CEO @ , one of the most incredible journeys in startups. For 10 years, UiPath was a bootstrapped company that scaled to just $500K in revenue. Then it all changed, product market fit became obvious and the rest is...

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Dec. 15, 2024

20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE |…

Reid Hoffman is one of the most impactful people in technology and startups. As a Founder he founded Paypal and Linkedin before moving to the investing side where he has led deals in Facebook, Airbnb and more.  In Today’s Episode with Reid...

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Dec. 12, 2024

20Growth: How to Scale to $30M ARR Bootstrapped through Content and B…

Guillaume Moubeche is the Founder of Lempire, a company he has bootstrapped in the most competitive market in technology and scaled to a staggering $30M in ARR. Guillaume has never raised primary funding for the business but sold $10M of secondary at...

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Dec. 11, 2024

20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China…

Torsten Reil is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Helsing, a new type of defence company providing artificial intelligence to protect our democracies. Torsten has raised over $825M from the likes of Prima Materia, Elad Gil, Accel and General Catalyst....

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Dec. 8, 2024

20VC: Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff on The Future of LLMs | The Fut…

Marc Benioff is one of the iconic founders and visionaries of our time. From the founding of Salesforce 25 years ago, Marc has in many ways created an entire industry. He has scaled the company to a market cap of $346BN, $38BN in revenue and over...

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Dec. 6, 2024

20VC: From Unsexy Startup to $1.8BN Acquisition | Why VCs and Founder…

Zachary Bookman is Co-Founder and CEO of OpenGov, the GovTech cloud software leader that was acquired for a staggering $1.8BN earlier this year. Prior to acquisition, Zac raised over $180M from some of the best of the best including Marc Andreesen,...

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Dec. 4, 2024

20VC: Revolut Founder Nik Storonsky on When and Where Revolut Will IP…

Nik Storonsky is the Co-Founder and CEO of Revolut, one of the fastest-growing companies in the world with a $45BN valuation and 50M customers around the world. In July 2024, Revolut posted a whopping $2.2BN in revenue with $545M in pre-tax profit in...

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Dec. 3, 2024

20VC: Grindr: The Most Insane Story in Startups | How the Chinese Bou…

George Arison is the CEO of Grindr. The app that results in 40% of lesbian and gay marriages, the average user uses the app for 1 hour per day and sends more messages on Grindr than they do Whatsapp. The company will do over $300M in revenue in 2024...

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Nov. 29, 2024

20Product: Is an AI Winter Approaching | The Future of AI Software De…

Guy Podjarny founded Tessl, Snyk and Blaze. Tessl is reimagining software development for the AI era and shaping AI Native Development. Snyk created and leads the Developer Security category, and is now a multi-billion dollar company with over 1,000...

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Nov. 26, 2024

20VC: Why Price Sensitivity is BS | Why "Portfolios" are Merely a Con…

Klaus Hommels is one of Europe’s leading start investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Spotify, Airbnb, Facebook, Coinbase, Revolut and more. Among his many responsibilities, Klaus is the Founder of Lakestar, his own...

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Nov. 25, 2024

20VC: Discord's Jason Citron on Why Everything We are Taught About Hi…

Jason Citron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Discord, a voice, video and text platform for friends playing games. Jason has raised $1BN for the company and was able to scale to 200M users. Prior to co-founding Discord, Jason founded OpenFeint, the...

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Nov. 21, 2024

20Sales: What I Learned Scaling Datadog from $60M to $1BN in ARR | Ho…

Dan Fougere is one of the most successful sales leaders of the last decade. Most recently, Dan was Chief Revenue Officer for Datadog, growing revenues from $60 million to $1BN ARR. Before Datadog, Dan was Head of Global Sales at Medallia where he...

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Nov. 19, 2024

20VC: Turning $16.5M into $2.1BN; Lessons from the Greatest Venture I…

Cem Sertoglu is one of the great venture investors of the last decade. Cem is famed for writing the first check into UiPath and over several rounds turning $16.5M into $2.1BN. Cem recently started Bek Ventures, a $250M fund that was 3x...

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Nov. 17, 2024

20VC Alain De Botton on Why Companies Are Not Families | Why Status i…

Alain De Botton is one of the greatest philosophers of our time. His work has had a profound impact on me more than any other. I have wanted to do this episode for the last 8 years.  In Today’s Episode with Alain De Botton We Discuss: 1. Why...

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Nov. 14, 2024

20Growth: Inside Perplexity's Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did N…

Raman Malik is the Head of Growth at Perplexity where he is responsible for growth marketing, onboarding, activation, retention, and monetisation. Prior to Perplexity, Raman, was an early member of the growth team at Lyft and joined Perplexity earlier...

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Nov. 12, 2024

20VC: Bolt; The Most Insane Story in Startups | Turning a $5K Loan in…

Markus Villig is the Founder and CEO of Bolt, a global mobility platform with more than 200 million lifetime customers in more than 50 countries and 600 cities. Bolt has raised over €1 billion in funding from investors like Sequoia, D1 and G...

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Nov. 10, 2024

20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the De…

Matt Grimm is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Anduril Industries, an American defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems. To date, Anduril has raised over $3.7BN with the latest round pricing the company...

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Nov. 3, 2024

20VC: Sam Altman on The Trajectory of Model Capability Improvements: …

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, one of the most important companies in history. OpenAI is on a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Prior to OpenAI, Sam was the President of Y Combinator and an angel...

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Nov. 1, 2024

20VC: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Founder Mode | Building 8x $100M Reve…

Vlad Tenev is a Co-Founder and CEO of Robinhood, the commission free stock trading and investing app with a market cap today of $20.7BN. Over the incredible 11 year journey Vlad has raised over $5BN from some of the world’s best investors including...

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Oct. 30, 2024

20VC: Linear's Karri Saarinen How to be Grow Capital Efficiently in a…

Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Linear. The company has raised from some of the best in the business including Sequoia and Accel. Before founding Linear, Karri was the principal designer at Airbnb and the founding designer at...

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