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Harry Stebbings VC interviews.

In the last 30 days, The Twenty Minute VC produced 184 attributed ideas; most-discussed: NVDA, BSP, CRWV.

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NVDA · 1BSP · 1CRWV · 1TSLA · 1
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Theses first heard here · 25

Companies will stay private longerFIRST HEARD 19 OCT
Companies must eventually let AI agents inFIRST HEARD 26 SEP
AI agents pressure digital aggregatorsFIRST HEARD 24 SEP · AMZN SHOP GOOGL
Pacing the frontier as an S-1 risk factorFIRST HEARD 17 SEP
AI labs' operational recklessness invites regulationFIRST HEARD 3 SEP
Latest attributed ideas · most recent first
26 OCTYESTERDAY20VC: Satya Nadella on Open vs Closed Models: Who Wins | Whether to Trust Frontier Model Providers | Why Companies Need to Own Their Own Intelligence | The Importance of Verticalisation: From Chips to Models and More
AI as a catalyst for global GDP growth inflection
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26 OCTYESTERDAY20VC: Satya Nadella on Open vs Closed Models: Who Wins | Whether to Trust Frontier Model Providers | Why Companies Need to Own Their Own Intelligence | The Importance of Verticalisation: From Chips to Models and More
Open vs closed model competition favors commodity
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26 OCTYESTERDAY20VC: Satya Nadella on Open vs Closed Models: Who Wins | Whether to Trust Frontier Model Providers | Why Companies Need to Own Their Own Intelligence | The Importance of Verticalisation: From Chips to Models and More
AI implementation economy blends business and tech
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26 OCTYESTERDAY20VC: Satya Nadella on Open vs Closed Models: Who Wins | Whether to Trust Frontier Model Providers | Why Companies Need to Own Their Own Intelligence | The Importance of Verticalisation: From Chips to Models and More
AI stack likely to remain horizontally specialized
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26 OCTYESTERDAY20VC: Satya Nadella on Open vs Closed Models: Who Wins | Whether to Trust Frontier Model Providers | Why Companies Need to Own Their Own Intelligence | The Importance of Verticalisation: From Chips to Models and More
AI demand constrained by long-lead infrastructure
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Inference as a $10 trillion market in 10 years
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Hardware over software for next decade
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Energy shortage caps AI compute growth
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Post-transformer world coming
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
AI as a tool for bigger scientific questions
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
AI doesn't reduce spend, it increases output
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Data layer not a commodity
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Robotics 100x bigger than coding agents
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Market validation less important for deep tech
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
AI verification as the new bottleneck
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Invest in robotics tech stack, not application layer
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24 OCT3D AGO20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional
Specialized chips threaten NVIDIA's dominance
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22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
VCs demand trillion-dollar outcomes or nothing
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22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
Bending Spoons as the Berkshire of software
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22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
Bootstrapping's appeal in the AI era
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22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
CoreWeave as the risky, B-tier AI infrastructure bet
SHOWS SPLIT11 SHOWS · NOT ALL ON THE SAME SIDECRWVOpen in Zortix →
22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
Few venture firms can successfully IPO
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22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
Tesla's Roadster as a pre-merger marketing hurrah
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22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
Venture market to heat up on cash recycling
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22 OCT5D AGO20VC: Trillion or Bust: The New VC Game | Coreweave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Town at $1B, Anduril at $90B: Revenue Multiples Out of Control | General Atlantic Eyes IPO & Modal Raises $750M at $15.75B
AI startup revenue multiples may settle too early
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19 OCT1W AGO20VC: You Need $1BN To Do Seed Today: The Untold Truths of Venture | Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Decade of VC | Why Margin and Price Matter Less in a World of AI with Sameer Dholakia, Bessemer
Venture's bifurcation: global platforms or specialists
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19 OCT1W AGO20VC: You Need $1BN To Do Seed Today: The Untold Truths of Venture | Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Decade of VC | Why Margin and Price Matter Less in a World of AI with Sameer Dholakia, Bessemer
AI as a market bigger than oil
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19 OCT1W AGO20VC: You Need $1BN To Do Seed Today: The Untold Truths of Venture | Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Decade of VC | Why Margin and Price Matter Less in a World of AI with Sameer Dholakia, Bessemer
Anthropic as a capital-intensive hyperscaler bet
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19 OCT1W AGO20VC: You Need $1BN To Do Seed Today: The Untold Truths of Venture | Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Decade of VC | Why Margin and Price Matter Less in a World of AI with Sameer Dholakia, Bessemer
Capital as a moat in AI
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19 OCT1W AGO20VC: You Need $1BN To Do Seed Today: The Untold Truths of Venture | Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Decade of VC | Why Margin and Price Matter Less in a World of AI with Sameer Dholakia, Bessemer
Late-stage growth offers early-stage returns
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