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

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20VC: From Only OpenAI to Die-Hard Anthropic: The Downfall of OpenAI in Enterprise | Harvey vs Legora: Legal AI is a Winner Take All | $7M ARR in a Single Day and Raising $200M Across 3 Rounds with No Deck with Max Junestrand, CEO @ Legora
26-1-2026 | 1 u. 3 Min.
Max Junestrand is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Legora, the legal AI company that has scaled to 750 of the world's leading law firms as customers and over 300 employees in just 2 years. They have raised over $200M from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, General Catalyst, Redpoint and ICONIQ.
AGENDA:
04:16 Why Does Everyone Think Harvey When They Hear Legal AI?
07:35 Why OpenAI is Toast? Switching to Anthropic!
11:47 24 Months: Which Foundation Models Will Win?
23:53 Lessons Scaling from Europe into the US
28:53 Do Americans Work As Hard As They Say?
32:20 Why Seat Models Are Not Dead in SaaS?
36:17 How to Use Competition To Drive a Fire in Your Team?
40:59 Is Legal AI a Winner-Take-All Market? How Does It End?
47:18 The Future of Law Firms: Do Juniors Get Fired?
53:19 How We Raised $200M and 3 Rounds with No Deck
57:21 Quickfire Round: Best Advice, Closest Mentor, Biggest Mindset Shift
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
24-1-2026 | 42 Min.
AGENDA:
00:03:00 – Harry's Wild Start: Making £1.75M at 19 in 36 Hours
00:06:00 – How Harry Got Marc Benioff on 20VC with Cold Emailing Alone
00:07:30 – Raising $70M on WhatsApp – Relationship Building Secrets
00:12:00 – Decision Framework: What Would Pat Grady (Sequoia) Do?
00:15:00 – Chase Your First Million – It Unlocks Everything
00:16:30 – Advice for 19-Year-Olds Today: Niche Down, Interview Leaders, Publish
00:18:00 – University Is a Waste for Most | Leverage Youth & Risk
00:22:30 – How Getting Kicked Out of School Changed Everything
00:30:00 – Why Should Everyone Be Creating Content Today and How to Start
00:35:30 – 7 Lessons from Billionaires
00:36:00 – #1: Never Accept No (The $12M Turnaround Story)

00:37:30 – #2: Beat Down the Door (53 Emails to Marc Benioff)

00:39:00 – #3: Just Start – 99% Never Do

00:40:30 – #4: Use a Role Model Framework for Hard Decisions

00:42:00 – #5: Chasing Money Won't Make You Happy – Enjoy the Art

00:44:00 – #6: Break Big Visions into Achievable Milestones

00:45:30 – #7: Win Over the Partner (Power of Pillow Talk)
20VC: Sam Altman vs Elon Musk: The $100BN Battle | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Market Pricing Today? | ClickHouse and Replit's New Rounds: Analysed
22-1-2026 | 1 u. 18 Min.
AGENDA:
03:30 Can VC Survive With Public Market Prices Today
15:20 The Implosion of Thinking Machines
21:13 Elon Musk vs. OpenAI: The Legal Battle
40:50 Can OpenAI Win Ads?
55:50 ClickHouse's $15BN Deal: Analysed
58:55 Replit's $9BN Deal: Analysed
01:08:35 There Are Only Two Types of Deals VCs Want To Do Today
20VC: How Model Performance is Plateauing | Two Key Rules for Effective Deal-Making | Company Building Lessons from Keith Rabois, Brian Halligan and Pat Grady | Why Enterprise AI Adoption is Years Off with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg
19-1-2026 | 1 u. 13 Min.
Winston Weinberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Harvey, the leading professional services platform engineered with AI for law, tax, and finance. Winston has raised over $980M for Harvey from Sequoia, a16z, GV, Elad Gil and more with a last round price of $9.2BN post-money. Before founding Harvey in August 2022, Winston was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, specializing in antitrust and securities litigation.
AGENDA:
04:10 #1 Thing Every Founder Needs to Do Everyday
05:33 Must Do Daily Routines and Productivity Tips for CEOs
12:45 How to Get Sequoia and a16z Term Sheets
15:06 Why VCs Suck at Helping Companies Hire?
27:01 What No One Understands About Enterprise AI Adoption
38:06 AI's Impact on Professional Services
39:26 Future of Law Firms: Do They Die?
43:38 What Everyone Should Know That No One Tells You About Hiring in Europe
47:08 I Have Massive Trust Issues…
54:17 Biggest Lessons on Effective Deal-Making
59:20 Cold Emailing OpenAI and It Leading to a Term Sheet
01:02:33 Quick Fire Round
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20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
16-1-2026 | 45 Min.
Noam Lovinsky is the CPO @ Superhuman (formerly Grammarly). Prior to Superhuman he was a Senior Director of Product Management at Facebook. In his earlier years, he was CPO @ Thumbtack and spent 5 years as a Director of Product Management at Google where he was responsible for all of Youtube's applications.
AGENDA:
03:43 What is Great Product Leadership in a World of AI
07:45 Does the Design Phase Die in a World of Vibe Coding
12:21 How AI Changes Product Development Most
22:23 Accelerating Product Development
29:32 AI's Impact on Product Building
34:19 Predictions for 2026
34:45 Quick Fire Round
38:41 Reflections and Future Plans

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and more.

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