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Harry Stebbings

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37 episodes
Jan 12, 2026• a16z Podcast

Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives

A deep dive into venture capital with Alex Rampell, exploring investment strategies, the changing startup landscape, AI's impact on labor and technology, and the critical importance of finding high-agency founders who can materialize labor, capital, and customers.

1:11:21
Jan 11, 2026• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs

Luke Harries, Head of Growth at ElevenLabs, shares insights on their unique growth strategy, product expansion, launching techniques, and how they've built a $6.6B growth engine without traditional product managers.

1:13:34
Jan 8, 2026• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Groq's $20BN NVIDIA Acquisition | Manus Acquired by Meta for $2BN | Why Sam Altman Does Not Care About Dilution | Navan Trading at 4x ARR & Why Going Public Does Not Make Sense Anymore | The Rise of Invisible Unemployment and Labour Markets in 2026

A wide-ranging discussion of recent tech industry developments, including NVIDIA's $20B acquisition of Groq, Meta's $2B purchase of Manus, OpenAI's stock-based compensation strategy, Navan's IPO challenges, and the emerging trend of "invisible unemployment" driven by AI's impact on the labor market.

1:23:47
Dec 31, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Enterprises Will Not Adopt AI without Forward-Deployed Engineers | Who Wins the Data Labelling Race: How Does it Shake Out? | Lessons Learned Hitting $200M ARR with Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies

Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies, discusses the challenges of enterprise AI adoption, the importance of forward-deployed engineers, and the potential of AI to transform industries like healthcare, education, and energy.

1:23:48
Dec 22, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC's Big Fat Quiz of the Year: Founder, Fund and Breakout Company of 2025 | Predictions for 2026: The Company to Buy, The Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win 2026 and The Tailwinds NVIDIA Will Face

A lively end-of-year podcast episode reviewing 2025's top founders, funds, companies, and making predictions for 2026, including potential tech IPOs, stock performance, and the potential impact of AI on employment.

1:09:42
Dec 19, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf

Gerald Marolf, Chief Product Officer at On Running, discusses the art of creating emotionally resonant products, the challenges of physical versus digital product development, and the importance of brand personality and innovation in the athletic and lifestyle market.

56:00
Dec 18, 2025• a16z Podcast

Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?

A candid conversation with David George from a16z about AI investment strategies, the changing landscape of venture capital, and why finding founders with exceptional strengths matters more than worrying about theoretical competition.

1:02:30
Dec 18, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

A deep dive into the latest tech and venture capital news, covering SpaceX's potential $1.5T IPO, OpenAI's Disney deal, Oracle's stock drop, and the evolving landscape of AI-driven innovation across design, coding, and enterprise tools.

1:22:03
Dec 15, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: a16z's David George on How $BN Funds Can 5×, Do Margins & Revenue Matter in AI & the Most Controversial Bet at a16z

David George, a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses the firm's investment strategy, the evolving landscape of venture capital, the potential of AI startups, and the importance of backing founders with exceptional strengths across various market opportunities.

1:06:37
Dec 11, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC OGs: SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price | Airwallex Raises $330M and The Battle with Keith Rabois | Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers | IPO Market Predictions for 2026: Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks and SpaceX

A deep dive into SpaceX's $800 billion valuation, potential IPOs for Anthropic and Databricks in 2026, Netflix's acquisition of Warner Brothers, and discussions on AI model dynamics, Chinese open-source models, and the evolving venture capital landscape.

1:31:48
Dec 5, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato

Federico Simionato provides an inside look at Bending Spoons' product strategy, sharing insights on acquisitions, product development, and how they approach product management across companies like Evernote, WeTransfer, and Vimeo.

1:05:28
Dec 4, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Thrive & OpenAI Partnership | Eventbrite Acquired for $500M | Databricks Raising $5BN at $134BN Valuation: Cheap or Not? | Why SaaS is Like Japan and The TAM Trap in Software

A live podcast discussion exploring the latest tech and venture capital news, including the Thrive and OpenAI partnership, Databricks' massive funding round, the challenges of SaaS growth, and the potential of AI to disrupt traditional industries like wealth management.

1:12:30
Dec 1, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Scale, Surge, Turing, Mercor: Who Wins & Who Loses in Data Labelling | Is Revenue in Data Labelling Real or GMV? | Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Go and What Happens Then? | Why SaaS is Dead in a World of AI with Jonathan Siddharth @ Turing

Jonathan Siddharth, CEO of Turing, discusses the evolution of data labeling, AI's transformative potential, and why he believes 99% of knowledge work will be automated through research accelerators that create sophisticated reinforcement learning environments for AI models.

1:08:16
Nov 28, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency

John McMahon, a legendary enterprise software sales leader, shares deep insights on sales strategy, hiring top talent, driving urgency, adapting to AI and PLG, and the critical importance of listening and understanding customers in the sales process.

1:08:30
Nov 24, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Base44's Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS and Salesforce | Why it is BS that Vibe Coding Platforms Do Not Have Defensibility and Bad Margins | Why He Worries About Google, Not Replit and Lovable | Why Long Anthropic, Not OpenAI?

Maor Shlomo, founder of Base44, discusses how vibe coding will transform the software industry, the future of AI models, and why he believes small businesses will build their own customized software using AI tools.

1:11:43
Nov 20, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Cursor Raises $2.3BN: Who Wins the Coding War | Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: Analysed | Why Venture Capital Will Hit $1TRN and the Opening of Retail | Why Stripe and the Best Companies Will Never Go Public

A deep dive into the venture capital landscape, discussing Cursor's massive $2.3BN raise, the potential for AI coding platforms, market dynamics, potential tech bubble indicators, and the evolving landscape of private and public markets.

1:22:38
Nov 17, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Andrew NG on The Biggest Bottlenecks in AI | How LLMs Can Be Used as a Geopolitical Weapon | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI? | Is Defensibility Dead in a World of AI? | Will AI Deliver Masa Son's Predictions of 5% GDP Growth?

Andrew Ng discusses the current state and future of AI, exploring bottlenecks in infrastructure and compute, the geopolitical implications of AI development, the potential for AI to transform productivity, and his optimistic vision of democratizing technology creation.

1:02:53
Nov 14, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify

Carl Rivera discusses how AI is transforming product design, exploring the evolving role of designers, the importance of creating meaningful user experiences, and how technology is changing the way products are conceptualized and developed at Shopify.

1:11:23
Nov 13, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Sequoia's Leadership Transition | Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir | Gamma Raises $100M at $2BN | Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI | Datadog Surges as Duolingo Plummets: What is Happening

A deep dive into Sequoia's leadership transition, Michael Burry's short on Nvidia and Palantir, the fundraising landscape for AI startups, and the evolving dynamics of venture capital in the AI era.

1:15:50
Nov 10, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Benchmark's Newest General Partner Ev Randle on Why Margins Matter Less in AI | Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns | OpenAI vs Anthropic: What Happens and Who Wins Coding | Investing Lessons from Peter Thiel and Mamoon Hamid

Benchmark's newest general partner Ev Randle discusses venture capital's evolving landscape, AI investment strategies, the importance of technology over distribution moats, and why absolute gross profit dollars matter more than traditional SaaS metrics.

1:25:43
Oct 31, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable

Tim Ferriss candidly discusses his journey through angel investing, podcasting, and personal growth, sharing insights on avoiding sensationalism, maintaining authenticity, and the evolving challenges of success across multiple domains.

1:31:49
Oct 30, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: a16z Raises $10BN in New Funds | Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation | OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses | Why IRR is a BS Metric and Three Ways to Win in VC Today

A deep dive into the latest venture capital news, including OpenAI's restructuring, Andreessen Horowitz's $10B fund raise, Mercor's $350M round, and discussions on startup valuations, AI investment strategies, and the challenges facing companies like Amazon and Ramp.

1:24:09
Oct 27, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? | The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses | How to Analyse Margins and Growth Rates in a World of AI

David Cahn, a Sequoia Capital partner and leading AI investor, discusses the current state of AI, including the bubble, compute challenges, investment strategies, talent dynamics, and the transformative potential of AI across various sectors like defense and technology.

1:14:23
Oct 24, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generared Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao

Sandy Diao shares insights on growth strategies, discussing channel fit, return on ad spend, user-generated content, brand marketing, and the importance of hiring growth talent early while maintaining a hands-on approach to navigating the evolving marketing landscape.

1:16:18
Oct 23, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Why VC Today is Worse Than 2021 | Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad Investment Today | Why We Are Deluding Ourselves on Growth Expectations | Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation | Benchmark Adds Their Newest General Partner

In this episode, Harry, Jason, and Rory discuss why today's venture market is as challenging as the 2021 hype cycle, debate the risks of over-investing in vertical SaaS and AI startups during a period of inflated growth expectations, and explore whether companies like Replit and Deal can achieve billion-dollar ARR valuations while examining the capital intensity of AI infrastructure and the widening gap between public and private market exits.

1:28:58
Oct 16, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder | Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M | Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI

A deep dive into Industry Ventures' acquisition by Goldman Sachs, the surprising departure of a Thinking Machines co-founder to Meta for $3.5B, and the evolving landscape of venture capital and AI investments.

1:19:54
Oct 13, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes shares insights on Atlassian's journey, AI's transformative potential, and the importance of continuous creativity and adaptation in technology over two decades of entrepreneurship.

1:03:16
Oct 10, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan

Chris Degnan shares insights on scaling Snowflake's sales organization from $0 to $3 billion in revenue, discussing the importance of founder-led sales, customer relationships, and building a world-class go-to-market strategy.

1:02:22
Oct 9, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: OpenAI's Multi $BN Deal with AMD | Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds | Does King Making Really Work in Venture Capital: Harvey vs Legora | Chamath is Back: The SPAC is Back

Harry and guests discuss OpenAI's strategic chip partnership with AMD, venture capital trends, high-valuation startup rounds, and the emerging dynamics of "king making" in tech investment, highlighting the complex interplay of capital, innovation, and market strategy.

1:24:50
Oct 6, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Cerebras CEO on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO | NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Worried About Growth | Concentration of Value in Mag7: Will the AI Train Come to a Halt | Can the US Supply the Energy for AI with Andrew Feldman

Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras, discusses the rapid growth of AI, the challenges in chip development, energy requirements, and the potential transformative impact of AI on various industries, while highlighting the importance of talent, strategic investment, and continued innovation.

1:04:59
Oct 3, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky

A deep dive into growth strategies with Keti Slonimsky, exploring how Palta builds successful apps through rigorous testing, user acquisition, retention tactics, and leveraging AI-driven creative strategies across their health tech portfolio.

1:00:32
Oct 3, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky

A deep dive into growth strategies with Keti Slonimsky, exploring how Palta builds successful apps through rigorous experimentation, user acquisition tactics, and a focus on creating enduring product retention.

1:00:32
Oct 2, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World | Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy | Klarna, Figma, Stubhub, all Down: Are Public Markets Turning? | FiveTran and DBT: Is the Wave of Consolidation About to Begin?

A deep dive into the AI and venture capital landscape, discussing burn multiples, energy requirements for AI, market valuations, and the challenges facing startups in an AI-driven world.

1:16:32
Oct 2, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World | Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy | Klarna, Figma, Stubhub, all Down: Are Public Markets Turning? | FiveTran and DBT: Is the Wave of Consolidation About to Begin?

A deep dive into the current venture capital landscape, discussing AI's impact, burn multiples, company valuations, energy requirements for AI development, and the challenges facing startups in a rapidly changing technological environment.

1:16:32
Sep 26, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson

James Gibson shares insights into Revolut Business's product strategy, team structure, and approach to building innovative financial products while maintaining rapid product velocity and a high-quality user experience.

54:15
Sep 22, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on The Future of Venture Capital: Chanel vs Walmart | Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM | Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds | Investing Hundreds of Millions into Anthropic at $60BN Valuation

Hemant Taneja discusses General Catalyst's strategy of being a founder-focused platform, the future of venture capital, AI's impact on labor, and the importance of building companies that create value for society while maintaining a long-term, principled approach to investing.

1:27:19
Sep 11, 2025• The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Musk's $TRN Pay Package Broken Down | Ramp Hits $1BN ARR and Brex Hits $700M: Who Wins | OpenAI's $10BN Secondary Sale | Atlassian Buys The Browser Company for $610M | ASML Lead Roun into Mistral at $14BN Valuation

A deep dive into the latest venture capital and tech landscape, featuring discussions on Elon Musk's trillion-dollar pay package, massive secondary sales at OpenAI, and the changing dynamics of startup funding and AI investments. The episode explores the evolving ethics of tech entrepreneurship, the impact of AI on various industries, and the challenges faced by public companies in navigating technological disruption.

1:27:56