One of the best weeks in the 10 years I have been doing 20VC:

🚀 Interview with Sam Altman Brad Lightcap

🦄 Interview with UiPath Founder, Daniel Dines.

😎 Interview with Nikesh Arora, CEO Palo Alto Networks

💰 Lead round for incredible Series A investment.

Let’s do this. 🚀

I started 20VC 10 years ago.

I have done 2,439 interviews.

Todays episode with Sam Altman Brad Lightcap was the highlight of a 10 year journey.

The impact of OpenAI on the world is unparalleled.

This was truly special. 👇

Tomorrow on 20VC... 👇

Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap

X, what are the must-ask questions? What do we have to discuss?

Work your magic... 🚀

This is what I look for in companies 20VC invests in.

If you are building a company with these characteristics. Hit me up. 🚀

I have been fortunate enough to become friends with the best product minds in the world through 20Product on 20VC.

Now I get to work and invest with them also. A special and proud day. 🔥 👇

Gustav Söderström Hugo Barra Jack Brody Glen Coates Geoff Charles Will Wu Tomer Cohen…

I have founder NPS data across 2,650 VCs.

I have never seen as such good founder NPS as 20SALES.

Stevie Case Maggie Hott Kim Graves absolutely crushing it Felicis! 🔥

These are the next great investors. 👇

The cream of the next-gen VC crop.

Over 300 VC funds investing in EMEA have been founded since 2019. This is the top 1% - 20VC Fund Air Street Capital 468 Capital ⭐️

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So Keith Rabois is one of the most successful investors of the last decade having founded/invested in a unicorn every year for the last 23 years.

This week he announced he was set to rejoin Vinod Khosla and so I sat down with Keith to discuss the move.

My Top 10 Takeaways: 👇

Be Bold. Early. Impactful.
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Following Keith Rabois mega news of rejoining Vinod Khosla and Khosla Ventures, excited for Keith to join me on 20VC in 3 hours.

X, what are the must ask questions? What do we have to discuss?

The first institutional LP to commit to Adjacent’s 1st close was SCS’s Peter Lacaillade (thanks to an intro from Miles Grimshaw Joshua Kushner)

He is the rare LP that is conviction-driven, transparent and entrepreneurial:

open.spotify.com/episode/1AMZbc…

This year, Dealroom.co introduced a new category to the annual investor ranking: Next Generation investors. These are VC funds founded since 2019, and otherwise the same methodology as the overall ranking.

The top two Next Gen investors in EMEA are 20VC Fund founded by…

The multi-stage retreat from seed is starting.

Large multi-stage funds who sprayed seed checks for optionality and provided s*** experiences for founders are realising they do not have bandwidth, it damages brand and their home is not at seed.

The retreat begins.

Operators building in the trenches today provide the best real-time advice to founders.

Venture value add is changing & 20Growth is a fund unlike any other.

9 of the best growth leaders in the world, all in one line on the cap table.

Luc Levesque Darius MC elena verna…

Today I had the honor to be interviewed by the one and only Harry Stebbings. Keep up the great work my friend.

This is one of the most meaningful 20VC episodes I have done.

Christian Lanng discusses burnout, almost dying in the grind and of course, AI.

I discuss bulimia, addiction and of course, VC.

It will be the most raw you have ever heard 20VC. 🔥 👇

Wonderful to spend quality time with Harry Stebbings. Harry must have texted and emailed me 100 times before I agreed to be on his pod cast. Persistence pays Harry. ❤️ youtu.be/wwmoboQRRIQ?si…

'Bringing product analytics to LLM applications'

👉 $3.5m Seed with GV, Theory VC, Matt Robinson & Pedro almeida sales 💰
👉 Henry Scott-Green & Alex have 7 years XP at Google 🧠
👉 Solving a real problem they experienced first hand 💥

Welcome Context.ai to the 20VC Fund portfolio 👇

The single best birthday present I have ever received.

Birthday messages from Scott “Scooter” Braun Bill Ackman Rishi Sunak Drizzy kinda… 😂

There is no co-investor I'd rather have with me on a cap table than:

20Sales:

🚀 8 of the best GTM experts as Founding Partners

⏰ 150 years of experience

💥 Added $3BN in revenue to companies

💰 $5M Fund

💲 $100K checks

Build time. Lets go.

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