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Numbers now running at more than 7,300 schools and parents of 45,300 children https://t.co/fg69FOre0x

I have been beating the drum to have guests on 20VC who do not do the podcast tour. One guest I would love to have on the show that I have not seen on others is Michael Dubin, the man behind the $BN Shave Club. @peterpham what do we think? Can we convince the main man?

Biggest mistake guests make when the come on a podcast: They sell their company/products too hard. They do not present the truth. They are inauthentic. 1. Do not sell products. Sell knowledge. 2. Show hard times. People resonate. Do this and you are top 1%.

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8. Why Yuri Milner is So Special He is a big believer in becoming a spacefaring civilization to continue humanity’s story. He understands technology waves that are happening all over the world. Very few have that conviction & found a way to place bets all over the globe. What

The race for AGI is unlike any we’ve seen before. Larry Ellison has said it requires $100BN to enter the foundation model race. Larry Page has said he is willing to go bust to ensure Google wins the race. Today we sit down with @eisokant to discuss competing with giants, https://t.co/QfZgbforvL

Is China really two years behind the US in the race for AGI? @eisokant 👇 “The research that doesn’t get held back that is most interesting is all coming out of China”. Love to hear your thoughts on this @matthewclifford @rabois @bgurley https://t.co/KbEXvzS2u3

I learn so much about the guest that I am about to have on the show by how they treat my team before the recording starts. The most fascinating moments to see.

This week @poolsideai raised $500M Series B at a $3BN valuation. I have @eisokant live in the studio in 60 mins. What are the must asks? X, work your magic… 😉

5. Difference Between US and EU for Work Ethic In the US people feel like their jobs are a bigger part of their identity. In Europe this is less of a phenomenon. When you feel your job is important to you personally, you put in more effort. Love to hear your thoughts on this

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You’ll not hear this OG guest on any other podcast. 🧠 What are the 3 different archetypes of PM? 🗣️ What are the 4 different types of product review meetings? 💰 Why do women not negotiate in compensation discussions? 🇪🇺 Why is Europe a worse place to build a $10BN business? https://t.co/LcUVaT8vAS

The venture market today is more wild than 2021. Pricing, size of round, speed of round. It is nuts.

It is on. Live and in the studio in 30 mins. @vladtenev @RobinhoodApp 👇 https://t.co/2mqJKZUkqe

RT @joseflchen: Mad respect for VCs who stay late to meet founders @20vcFund @Kieranleehill & Paul Bonnet @HarryStebbings you’ve got a g…

RT @peterfenton: For the AI Curious don't miss this trip into the pragmatic brilliance of @btaylor in this wide ranging interview with @Har…

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7. What Makes Zuck So Special? Anytime I thought I was thinking long-term, he was always thinking 2x farther. He is willing to take unpopular bets in the short term for the long term goal. Very few have this amount of relentless focus on the future. What are your single

I think @btaylor has the most insane CV in Silicon Valley. 👍 Former CTO @ Facebook 🗺️ Co-created Google Maps 💰 Founded Quip & sold to Salesforce for $800M ☁️ Former Co-CEO @ Salesforce 🤖 Board member @ OpenAI 🐦 Former Chairman of the Board @ Twitter NUTS! My 7 🔥 https://t.co/Wt0XNtb6RO

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For everyone that is told no, you are not good enough, you will not make it. Donald Tang is Executive Chairman of a $65BN company. He was turned down 58 times for a job 👇 “If you think you're better than the person who's interviewing you, it shows. When you have a chip on https://t.co/gnlUHqIEPp

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“We don't think of ourselves as a globalized company. We think of ourselves as a glocalized company. It's global local. If you want your business to thrive on a global scale, you have to become a local community business.” What is the best way to integrate effectively into a https://t.co/KogeKLBp8T

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“When you are looking at your daily life, you'll complain about how boring and mundane it is. Don't worry, challenges will come for you. As long as you treat every day as your last day & as the day that you want to do better, you'll win.” What is the secret to a happy life https://t.co/g3XyU0lZl8

Note: these numbers are from public media sources and not the company.

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My job is to bring you guests that you have not heard on any other podcast. @SHEIN_Official is one of the fastest growing companies in the world. 💰 $32.5BN revenue 🛍️ 100M customers 👚 1M items produced every day And you will have never heard them on a podcast before… My https://t.co/wyiprL1j8X

I would love a feature on podcast players that allowed the creator to highlight their five personal favourite episodes they have done. Would make the onboarding process for all new potential fans to be better.

The best interviewers in the world all do one thing: They speak less, not more as they get more famous. You have two ears and one mouth. Some need to remember this.

Tech leaders are doing more and more podcasts. Audiences are getting fatigued by this and the 10th podcast to have a leader in a short space of time will not do well with that episode. The real value shifts to guests that have never done shows before. That is my focus.

From 10 years investing there are many lessons and a core one is: When the venture community all agree a “space” is not good. That is the moment to spend more time on it. With that, consumer social and consumer applications of blockchain, this is your moment of being unloved

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5. Biggest Hiring Mistake in Japan We couldn’t use the expat approach so we hired from day zero. Some of our early hires sounded like westerners - They did not get it. You need to understand the local business culture to sell there. What have been your biggest hiring mistakes https://t.co/R3Xr5SQibs

So few people have scaled revenue orgs to $500M ARR, let alone $1BN in ARR. That is what Jeetu did at HubSpot. If that wasn’t enough, he then moved to Customer Success & scaled the team to 1,500. My 5 key lessons from sitting down @jmahtani 👇 https://t.co/djRWCKu74O

One of the biggest mistakes founders make at seed: They take multi-stage fund money at seed with the assumption they will be there to bridge them or for the next round if it does not go quite to plan. This is not guaranteed. They stack rank you. And if they don’t, it can be

“I don’t believe in talent. All people are approximately the same. What makes people different is hours of hard focused work.” Love your thoughts on this @rabois @mbrandolph https://t.co/KiyuaGgWue

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“When you have good competition, the total pie gets bigger: 1. You can learn from them 2. Products are better 3. Customers are more educated 4. Total market gets bigger” Love your thoughts on this @zebulgar @t_blom @RamaswmySridhar https://t.co/Dy9z6huZcR

One of the ridiculous predictions that is more prevalent today: Every company will create their own software. Software is like a lawn, it needs to be tended to. Updated. Amended. Companies will not build their own if there are great off-the-shelf options available.

Who have you never heard on a podcast that you would most like to hear? I am on the hunt for the best guests who have never done shows! Work your magic X! 😉

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6. Can AI Make Money: Search Did Not Figure Out Monetization For 5 Years Google only introduced monetization in 2000. We are still in the early years of AI. We’ll eventually figure out monetization, but it will not be $20/mo or an API bundle. Love to hear your thoughts on https://t.co/zTj2dXugqs

The thing that makes @ericvishria such a unique investor is his ability to identify winners across such a wide range of very different categories. 🏭 Confluent: $6.39BN Market Cap in data streaming 🧬 Benchling: $6.1BN Valuation in pharma 🤖 Cerebras Systems: $4BN+ Valuation in https://t.co/fPK77uc9SN

“The most significant thing in the early days is not speed, it’s survival. It's about the right distribution of resources to have several chances for success.” Love to hear your thoughts @nikitabier @sarahtavel @chadbyers @Bouazizalex https://t.co/LwYBbIJGwG

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What nobody understands about retention 📉 “Retention is not about the product. Retention is about the user case. You may create the perfect app for the gym & it would have terrible retention, why? Because gyms themselves have terrible retention.” Love to hear your thoughts https://t.co/ynnMmNiLPq

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I fricking love this advice from @vkhosla to Dmitry Gurski 🧠 “Product building is very similar to marriage. You have many opportunities before your marriage. But to be happy, you should choose one & really focus. Choose one business model & be really focused.” Love your https://t.co/oU55GgMc9i

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Just confirmed: Next week 20VC will have our first episode with a Trillion Dollar CEO. Question is, can you guess who it is… 💪🏼

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For the first 100 episodes of 20VC we did not get more than 1,000 plays per show. Today we get that in 90 seconds. 10 years in. Everyone loses at content because they give up too soon. This is a game of who can survive the longest.

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7. Consumer Is Amazing to Invest in Cos of the Culture Shift of Paying for Subscriptions Our initial goal was to monetize 5% of the American audience. Now we’ve monetized ~25% and it’s still growing. The culture is shifting, people have accepted the idea to pay for

I have had enough of guests who do the podcast circuit and say the same thing. Our guest today has built a $1BN business with $200M in revenue but has never done a podcast before. From potato farming in Belarus to scaling @flotracker to 75m users, Dmitry Gurski is one of the https://t.co/ELCfEBR3kj

To every founder told you are not good enough, you are not the right fit, you don’t have enough traction. Meet Dmitry Gurski, the man who was rejected by 100+ investors for Flo Health. Today the company has $200M in revenue and is worth $1BN. Just keep going. It is a https://t.co/OAFQ069BcD

The story of Dmitry Gurski and Flo Health is one of the greatest in startups. Dmitry started life on a potato farm picking mushrooms with his brother to earn money. Today he runs Flo, the #1 consumer app in Women's Health with $200M in revenue and $1BN valuation. Tomorrow's https://t.co/8MGteKizx5

The biggest problem of venture capital right now is we have made entrepreneurship too safe a career path. Starting a company should be for the crazy, for the obsessed. Instead, it is for the rational. Leave top tier university, raise VC. Own your own time, work on something

The fascinating thing about AI is: Software is not eating the world right now, software is simply eating software.

One of the biggest challenges I am seeing founders struggle to get their heads around: The irrationality of funding markets. They raised at $25M valuation last year. They have grown 5x and are now only priced at $40M. The market is irrational but it can stay that way