Fundraising & VC Podcast Episodes
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The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 485: Inside VC Anti-Portfolios: Missing Whatnot, Facebook & MongoDB (Dillon, Cheng, Black)
Jul 23 · 6 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Mercor CPO on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs | Why Large Enterprise is Scared to Partner with Frontier Labs | Why Small Specialised Models is the Future with Osvald Nitski
Jul 25 · 60 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Threatened by Kimi? | Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | Should Openrouter Sell & Value in the Routing Layer? | Stripe Buying Paypal: What You Need to Know
Jul 23 · 83 min
The Full Ratchet
513. Opening Late-Stage Venture to Everyone, Beating 10-Year Lockups, Why Logos Don't Equal Alpha, and Building Power Law as a Public VC Fund (Ben Black)
Jul 20 · 44 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Are OpenAI and Anthropic Overvalued? The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10x And Usage Will Explode 100x | The Future Is Not One AGI; It's Millions of Specialised Models with Lin Qiao, Founder and CEO @ Fireworks
Jul 20 · 77 min
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
2013: Ask Farnoosh: Raising Wealthy Kids, Rethinking Retirement & A $700K Inheritance
Jul 24 · 32 min
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20VC: Dario and Anthropic Declare War on Open-Source | Coinbase Slash AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40BN Valuation and Impending IPO | Bending Spoons: Smartest IPO of 2026 and the Year for SaaS Roll-Ups
Jul 277 min
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20VC: Apple Sues OpenAI | Zuckerberg Back on X and Challenging Codex and Claude Code | SK Hynix's $26BN IPO | Is Seed Investing Dead: Jason Calacanis Departs Seed for Growth | Greylock Raises New $1.5BN Fund
Jul 1682 min
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20VC: How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong | Why 1-1s are BS and What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Equity | Why Taste Beats AI But How AI Kills Org Charts with Paul Erlanger, CEO @ fomo
Jun 2757 min
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Investor Stories 485: Inside VC Anti-Portfolios: Missing Whatnot, Facebook & MongoDB (Dillon, Cheng, Black)
Jul 23, 20266 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud | Why Revenge and Patriotism are the Best Founder Traits | Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask | The Wild Story of Raising $1BN from Masa Son in an Hour Long Meeting with Ryan Peterson, Founder @ Flexport
Jun 20, 202678 min
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20VC: SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN | Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix and Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN and The Case for Sovereign Models | Fin Acquired by Salesforce for $3.6BN
Jun 18, 202685 min
Marketing School
How We're Raising Money for SingleBrain (The Clean Story for VCs)
Jul 16, 202624 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Mercor CPO on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs | Why Large Enterprise is Scared to Partner with Frontier Labs | Why Small Specialised Models is the Future with Osvald Nitski
Jul 25, 202660 min
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20VC: OpenAI and Anthropic Threatened by Kimi? | Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | Should Openrouter Sell & Value in the Routing Layer? | Stripe Buying Paypal: What You Need to Know
Jul 23, 202683 min
The Full Ratchet
513. Opening Late-Stage Venture to Everyone, Beating 10-Year Lockups, Why Logos Don't Equal Alpha, and Building Power Law as a Public VC Fund (Ben Black)
Jul 20, 202644 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Are OpenAI and Anthropic Overvalued? The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10x And Usage Will Explode 100x | The Future Is Not One AGI; It's Millions of Specialised Models with Lin Qiao, Founder and CEO @ Fireworks
Jul 20, 202677 min
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20VC: $5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred Turner
Jul 18, 202687 min
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20VC: Wix's Founder on What Wall St Gets Wrong About AI and Wix | Will Base44 Win the Vibe Coding Wars | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding | The Buyback Disaster: Lessons Learned with Avishai Abrahami
Jul 13, 202657 min
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20VC: Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Teams Will Get Bigger Not Smaller in a World of AI | Why AI Removes Incumbents Advantage of Bundling | China vs America: Who Wins the AI War with Arvind Jain, Co-Founder @ Glean
Jul 11, 202654 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI: Fool or Genius? | Alex Karp Sounds the Alarm: Enterprises Fear Frontier Models & Questionable ROI of AI | The Rise of Chinese Open Source: Deepseek Building Own Chips
Jul 9, 202683 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV
Jul 6, 202669 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra
Jul 4, 202668 min
This Week in Startups
Why the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307
Jul 1, 202674 min
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20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar
Jun 29, 202660 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Deepseek Raises $50BN | Wall St's $725BN AI Question | The Rise of Open Source & How it Threatens OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds it's Own Chip: Jalapeno | The Death of Moats & The New AI Software Winners
Jun 25, 202684 min
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20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence
Jun 22, 202674 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 482: Key Advice from a Top Investor and Two Unicorn Founders: Why Companies Pick Investors, Authentic Leadership, and Loving the Game (Austin, Schlacks, Demaree)
Jul 2, 20266 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 481: Lessons Learned from Centana Growth, a16z, and Emergence: Trusting Management, Spotting Original Thinkers, and Investing Before Revenue (Byunn, Ulevitch, Saper)
Jun 25, 20265 min
Afford Anything
The Hidden Math Behind Every Venture Capital Fund, with former Wharton Prof. David Bell
Jul 17, 202661 min
The Money Mondays
From Rocket Racing to Venture Capital: Granger Whitelaw on Building Wealth and Changing the World 🏦 E170
Jul 15, 202637 min
Masters in Business
Venture Capital During the AI Revolution with Mamoon Hamid
Jul 3, 202661 min
Equity
Best of Build Mode: Think like a VC
Jul 3, 202615 min
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars - [Invest Like the Best, EP.482]
Jul 14, 202650 min
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Jeremy Giffon - The Billion Dollar PDF - [Invest Like the Best, EP.481]
Jul 7, 202675 min
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Vlad Barbalat - Investing $120 Billion in Permanent Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.479]
Jun 23, 202669 min
How I AI
GPT-5.6 Sol vs. Claude Fable: Why OpenAI’s new model crushes my benchmark
Jul 9, 202636 min
Machine Learning Street Talk
The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)
Jul 1, 202684 min
a16z Podcast
Beyond P(doom): Marc Andreessen - Betting on America
Jun 29, 202664 min
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Why Traditional Benchmarks Fail Modern AI Models with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown
Jun 26, 202636 min
a16z Podcast
Marc Andreessen on AI, Technology, and the Future of Humanity
Jun 25, 202664 min
a16z Podcast
What’s Next for Consumer AI? | Josh Elman Joins a16z
Jun 23, 202653 min
a16z Podcast
The New Rules of Media | Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz
Jun 19, 202641 min
The Prof G Pod
Anthropic's Insane Valuation + The Future of Marketing
Jun 17, 202626 min
Capital Allocators
WTT: AI: Fundamentals, Valuation, and the Next Allocator Dilemma
Jun 17, 20268 min
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
2013: Ask Farnoosh: Raising Wealthy Kids, Rethinking Retirement & A $700K Inheritance
Jul 24, 202632 min
Foundr
687: I Broke Every DTC Rule and Built a $1 Billion Brand From My Garage
Jul 23, 202652 min
The Intelligence (Economist)
For bucks’ sake: the rise of self-made billionaires
Jul 23, 202625 min
Huberman Lab
Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood
Jul 20, 2026161 min
How I Built This
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
Jul 20, 202651 min
My First Million
Ray Dalio: The principles that made me a billionaire
Jul 17, 202662 min
Rational Reminder
"I Sold 50% of My Portfolio. What Now?" | #418 (AMA)
Jul 16, 202665 min
Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Science & Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Jul 16, 202635 min
Snacks Daily
⚽ “Ghost Tickets” — StubHub’s CEO scalper. Béis’ hater luggage. DeepSeek’s anti-Ferrari AI. +Chipotle’s Mexican 1st
Jul 16, 202622 min
Product School Podcast
Snapchat SVP of Engineering on How a Billion-User App Lets Everyone Ship Code Without Breaking Quality | Saral Jain | E304
Jul 15, 202632 min
The Prof G Pod
What SpaceX's IPO Means for Tech Stocks, and Coping With Panic Attacks
Jul 13, 202623 min
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