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Harry Stebbings

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Now, I want to just dive right in. You said to me your single biggest concern right now, or sorry, something that you're thinking about is how we need to change our investing mindset in a new world of AI. I'm really concerned that actually the way that we've always invested, maybe more spreadsheet SaaS investing. It's going to make us dinosaurs if we don't move with the times.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Now, I want to just dive right in. You said to me your single biggest concern right now, or sorry, something that you're thinking about is how we need to change our investing mindset in a new world of AI. I'm really concerned that actually the way that we've always invested, maybe more spreadsheet SaaS investing. It's going to make us dinosaurs if we don't move with the times.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Now, I want to just dive right in. You said to me your single biggest concern right now, or sorry, something that you're thinking about is how we need to change our investing mindset in a new world of AI. I'm really concerned that actually the way that we've always invested, maybe more spreadsheet SaaS investing. It's going to make us dinosaurs if we don't move with the times.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

How do you think about this and the mindset shift that needs to happen in investing?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

How do you think about this and the mindset shift that needs to happen in investing?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

How do you think about this and the mindset shift that needs to happen in investing?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Can we invest in mysteries alone? Puzzles, they're kind of doable, but challenging. The mysteries, this is what I find so challenging, which is like the world was turned upside down by deep seek.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Can we invest in mysteries alone? Puzzles, they're kind of doable, but challenging. The mysteries, this is what I find so challenging, which is like the world was turned upside down by deep seek.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Can we invest in mysteries alone? Puzzles, they're kind of doable, but challenging. The mysteries, this is what I find so challenging, which is like the world was turned upside down by deep seek.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

I do. Yeah. And so how do we think about adjusting to investing in a world of mysteries when we've been so used to puzzles? How long have you been doing this?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

I do. Yeah. And so how do we think about adjusting to investing in a world of mysteries when we've been so used to puzzles? How long have you been doing this?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

I do. Yeah. And so how do we think about adjusting to investing in a world of mysteries when we've been so used to puzzles? How long have you been doing this?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Like, if we look at your ramp or your Brex or any of the kind of successful companies of kind of the last era, so to speak. Yeah. Serial founder tick, pedigree founder tick, in a good big market tick, knowable go to market, knowable customer base tick. This is completely different.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Like, if we look at your ramp or your Brex or any of the kind of successful companies of kind of the last era, so to speak. Yeah. Serial founder tick, pedigree founder tick, in a good big market tick, knowable go to market, knowable customer base tick. This is completely different.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Like, if we look at your ramp or your Brex or any of the kind of successful companies of kind of the last era, so to speak. Yeah. Serial founder tick, pedigree founder tick, in a good big market tick, knowable go to market, knowable customer base tick. This is completely different.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Do you think many venture firms are adapting in the way that they need to? No.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Do you think many venture firms are adapting in the way that they need to? No.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Do you think many venture firms are adapting in the way that they need to? No.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

And by the way, what's doing what's right for the firm may actually lead to bad messaging to LPs. Because if you are managing a firm that needs to be very drastically reshaped for this new age, LPs find instability very disconcerting. That is a red mark in your box. That's right.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

And by the way, what's doing what's right for the firm may actually lead to bad messaging to LPs. Because if you are managing a firm that needs to be very drastically reshaped for this new age, LPs find instability very disconcerting. That is a red mark in your box. That's right.