The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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.

If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and more.

Agenda:

04:34 Chime’s IPO Announcement: Who Wins & Who Loses

06:28 The Lopphole That Means Chime Has a Better Business than JP Morgan

10:51 Why Investors Who Invested at $25BN Will Make Money When it IPOs at $12BN

18:59 Are IPOs Dead & The Future of the Late Stage Private Market

27:32 Exits are Larger Than Ever: So What? What Happens? Who Wins? Who Loses?

40:51 Is Europe Totally F*******

43:48 Challenges of Going Public & What Needs to Change?

46:12 OpenAI’s Future and Predictions

49:45 Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: Is Deel Screwed?

59:28 Why So Many Companies Are About To Become Database Companies

01:08:07 The Future of Salesforce: Buy or Sell?

01:13:28 Quickfire Round

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