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For me, it's it's like I don't even wanna take meetings with with mortal founders. This actually shows that sometimes Bill Gurley is wrong because his idea is that these IPO share allocations are, quote, free money. The amount of wealth in Silicon Valley is just unprecedented in our lifetimes. It's just gone up dramatically the last eighteen months. Maybe not just been all the time, but the horrible question in venture and startups, it is horrible. Is this a $4,500,000,000 exit good enough today? A founders optimized fundraising is a VC's below ownership target. The health of the entire US economy depends on the answer to this question. It turns out fuck off and sell your shares is not an acceptable answer. It's here. There's a little part of me that's kind of a bit sorry for Sam Altman because of where he's put himself. This is 20 v c with me, Harry Stebbings. And if that does not compel you to listen to this show, I don't know what's wrong with you, to be quite honest. This is one of the spiciest shows yet. It's my favorite show of the week. Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll breaking down the biggest news in tech that's happened over the last seven days. No politics, just incredible commentary and analysis. This was so much fun. But before we dive into the show today, you've heard me mention Guardio before. They protect millions of people from phishing, scams, and online threats. But now something genuinely exciting has happened. Lovable, one of the fastest growing AI platforms, just integrated Guardio directly into their gen AI chain. What that means? Every single site built with Lovable now gets scanned in real time. Phishing pages, impersonation sites, scam redirects are blocked before they ever go live, and that's a huge shift. It's rare to see companies take responsibility for the safety of the broader internet. Lovable did, and Guardio is the engine making that possible. Guardio also leverages advanced AI threat detection to block highly targeted, socially engineered scams before they ever reach you. From phishing emails and fake login pages to financial fraud, Guardio protects you across the way you actually live and work online. If you wanna see what modern active protection looks like and protect your platform, go to guard.io/20vc. AI changes how fast threats appear, Guardio changes how fast they can get stopped. And as guard.io defends your clicks, HubSpot turns them into customers. You wanna grow your company. Right? But instead of having the time to get to the next level, you're stuck maintaining the status quo. It's freaking maddening. Well, HubSpot's customer platform, it actually solves this. Breeze. No. It is not a fabric refreshener. This is the next generation. Their built in AI takes over all the busy work. It writes writes emails. It qualifies leads. It answers common customer questions and even help create content. Also, your marketing, your sales, your service teams can focus on what matters …