Fred Turner

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 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 · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

So I went back to the hotel room and it turned out like the application deadline was six days away.

So I was like, all right, it's meant to be.

So did the application, got the interview, came back for the interview, and then moved to Silicon Valley for the Summer of 16 batch.

I mean, it was all a bit of a blur.

It's very fast.

And then you found out you got in.

Yes.

You moved to the Valley.

Moved to the Valley.

And then it was the same pitch, the same company.

We were doing mostly dairy testing at that point.

So testing dairy cows to try and predict their milk yield, which for farmers is actually very valuable because they don't make milk until they're 18 months old.

And so from day one, all your animals have to have a cough every year to keep making milk.

So your herd doubles every year.

No, this is a completely different company.

Well, not big enough.

That was the problem.

Yeah.

So we did this, went through YC, and we raised a seed round from Andreessen.

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