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

Harry Stebbings
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Tiktok
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Great Financial Crisis
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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 ... more

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Federico Simionato
Product lead at Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons
Episode: 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
John McMahon
Widely regarded as one of the greatest enterprise software sales leaders of all time and former Chief Revenue Officer at five public software companies
Episode: 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
Maor Shlomo
Co-founder of Base44
Base44
Episode: 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?
Tom Tungus
Venture capitalist known for insights on tech investments.
Episode: 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
Carl Rivera
Chief Design Officer at Shopify, previously founded Tictail
Shopify
Episode: 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
Sandy Diao
Growth leader known for scaling products to over 200 million users and for her work at Descript, Meta, and Pinterest.
Episode: 20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
Alex Bouaziz
CEO of Deel
Deel
Episode: 20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation | Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On | Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky | Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions: What Works & What Doesn't
Zach Lloyd
Founder and CEO of Warp
Warp
Episode: 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Co-founder and CEO of Atlassian
Atlassian
Episode: 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

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Harry Stebbings
Host of The Twenty Minute VC, Harry Stebbings interviews prominent venture capitalists and successful founders, providing insights into their experiences and strategies.

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 1.8k ratings
  • Remove Jason

    Like the show. Rory is great on the weekly market show. Lemkin is awful. Last 3 months all he says is AI replaces people. Guy runs an events business who’s website doesn’t even work🤦‍♂️ probably vibe codes it

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Delken101
    United Kingdom2 months ago
  • The best podcast in Venture by a mile

    The Episodes between Jason, Rory & Harry is the most important thing to listen to in tech every week in my opinion. They give multiple vantage points

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Mike Ambrosino
    United States2 months ago
  • Simply the best

    Most probably one of the best podcast in startup and investment area … love it!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Rezzz27
    Indonesia3 months ago
  • Terrific guests, poor questions

    Whoever int he team sources the guests is doing a terrific job. But the questions are always the exact same (‘what lesson did you learn at…’, ‘what was your childhood like?’, etc) and there is very little genuine dialogue. And the host seems more interested in talking about himself than understanding the guests. Which is a massive missed opportunity.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Simon RD
    United Kingdom3 months ago
  • Good content but too much clickbait

    The content and guests are good, but the episode titles are just so overly click-baity. It makes it hard to share these episodes widely and be taken seriously.

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    _D0_
    Australia3 months ago

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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
Q: What do you advise on finding the right sales reps?
I recommend hiring intelligent, driven individuals with persistence and adaptability rather than focusing only on domain experience.
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
Q: How do you drive urgency in a sales conversation?
By implicating the pain, asking who suffers if they don't solve issues, I can create a sense of urgency for the potential customer.
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
Q: What is your approach to separating noise and signal and focus?
I use frameworks like Medic or MedPic to figure out where a person is in the sales process through qualifying questions.
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
Q: Do you think that regimented sales playbook structure holds true in a very new world of AI?
Yes, it should still hold true as a sales process is like a sports team playbook where both knowledge and skill are essential for execution.
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
Q: How has the art of sales changed?
The art of sales hasn't changed much; it is still about dealing with people and their styles, while the discipline around the sales process has become more regimented.

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