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

AGENDA: 03:40 Dario Calls to "Pace the Frontier" 11:30 Why the Fed Will Raid Anthropic if Needed 21:50 Meta Launches Muse to Take On Instinct 28:30 Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN—Would You Invest? 39:55 Miro Sells for $1.35BN After a $17.5BN Valuation 47:45 Could Sam Bankman-Fried Win His Freedom? 51:25 WordPress Power Struggle: Matt Mullenweg Ousted, Then Returns 1:01:20 Mistral Raises €3BN in Europe's Biggest-Ever Tech Round 1:05:00 Adobe's New CEO & Canva's Slowing Growth: SaaS Giants Under Pressure

David Morehead is one of the most respected CIOs in the endowment fund world as Chief Investment Officer at Baylor University, overseeing its $2.6BN endowment. Before joining Baylor in 2011, he was a senior portfolio manager at several Chicago hedge funds, investing across corporate securities, distressed debt and public and private energy. AGENDA: 04:00 The Portfolio Construction of a $2.6 Billion University Endowment? 09:00 Why We Spend More Time on Porfolio Construction Than Manager Selection? 14:00 Should LPs Back VC's Biggest Names or Find the Next Breakout Manager? 21:00 How Baylor Made Millions in the SaaSpocalypse? 26:00 Are Public Markets a Casino or Are Private Valuations the Real Fiction? 34:00 How Do You Buy a Market Crash Without Catching a Falling Knife? 49:00 Would You Fire a Fund Manager Who's Making You Money? 57:00 Could the Backlash Against Data Centres Derail the AI Boom? 01:02:00 Which Asset Class Is Overhyped—and Where Is the Next Big Opportunity?

AGENDA: 04:30 How Do You Hire Exceptional People in the AI Era? 08:00 What Actually Works in Growth—and Why Can't You Trust Meta's Numbers? 17:00 How to Run Hundreds of Millions in Marketing with Zero Employees 19:30 "Our Engineers Stopped Coding": What Stack Does Eight Sleep Use? 24:00 Is China Leaving the Rest of the World Behind? 35:00 How Do You Turn Superstar Athletes into Investors and Brand Ambassadors? 43:00 What Happens When Your Co-Founder Is Also Your Wife? 51:30 Should You Match Anthropic's Salaries—or Let Your Best People Leave? 59:30 Will Children Born Today Ever Need to Work? 01:05:00 What Drives You to Succeed—and Why Can't You Ever Switch Off?

AGENDA: 00:00 Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived 04:05 Instinct and GrokBot Ignite the AI Assistant War 13:32 OpenAI's GPT Astra Redefines What AGI Means 26:00 GPT Astra and Fable 5.1 Accelerate the Model Race 30:38 OpenAI's Chief Scientist Calls for Enforced AI Safety Limits 40:50 Tesla Launches Cybercabs as Travis Kalanick Returns to Robotaxis 45:55 Index Pulls Out of Town Deal Following Instinct Conflict 49:45 Anthropic Abandons $6BN Descartes Acquisition After Due Diligence 56:18 Robinhood Earns First Underwriting Role in Oura IPO 01:00:28 Wonderful Doubles to $5BN and Approves $170M in Secondaries 01:09:02 Thinking Machines Targets $40BN Valuation in $6BN Funding Round

Jean-Denis "JD" Grèze is the Co-Founder and CEO of Town, the AI work assistant reportedly in talks to raise funding at a $1BN valuation. Before founding Town, JD spent seven years as CTO of Plaid. Before Plaid, he was Director of Engineering at Dropbox. He is also a prolific angel investor backing companies including Modal, BaseTen, Merge and NexHealth. AGENDA: 00:00 Why AI Assistants Are Silicon Valley's Hottest Market 07:00 How Does Town Compete With Grokbot, Instinct and Big Tech? 11:00 Will We Have One AI Agent or Different Agents for Every Part of Our Lives? 17:00 How Many Mistakes Can AI Agents Make Before We Stop Trusting Them? 20:00 How Does Town Choose the Best Models Without Destroying Its Margins? 29:00 Is the AI Assistant Market Already Too Crowded? 37:00 Can Apple Win the Agent Race—and Are We Entering a Cybersecurity Nightmare? 41:00 What Does a Successful Town User Look Like—and Which Pricing Tier Makes Money? 47:00 What Will AI Agents Be Able to Do in Three Years That They Cannot Do Today? 54:00 Is the Skepticism Around Billion-Dollar AI Assistant Companies Justified? 58:00 What Needs to Happen for Town to Become a $100BN Company? 1:02:00 How Has AI Changed Hiring—and Why Does Town Spend $75K Per Engineer on AI Tools? 1:06:00 What Is JD Most Excited About Over the Next Decade?