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

20VC: Why Fund Returners Are Not Enough Anymore | Why Sequoia Had the Best Strategy at the Worst Time | What it Takes to Be Good at Series A and B Today | Benchmark Leads Manus Round: Should US Funds Invest in Chinese AI

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In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

03:56 Why The Risk Lever Has Been Turned Higher than Ever in VC

06:04 Why IRR is the Hardest Thing to Control

09:36 Is Lack of Liquidity Short Term Temporary or Long Term Structural

12:17 Why Fund Returners Are Not Good Enough Anymore

16:03 Sequoia: The Best Strategy at the Worst Time

26:30 What it Takes to be Good at Series A and B Today

34:14 Only Three Company Types Survive AI

41:35 ServiceNow: 25% Pop, WTF Happened

45:29 Palantir and SAP Ripping: Do Incumbents Win AI

49:43 Are Benchmark Wrong to Invest in Chinese Made Manus

01:00:52 Geopolitical Risks in Investments

01:11:36 European vs. US Tech Culture

 

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