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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

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 it may take three years to show that transition worked, by which point they will have churned because they will have gone Nabil. You changed your team entirely. You move this, this, and this. Next fund, 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 it may take three years to show that transition worked, by which point they will have churned because they will have gone Nabil. You changed your team entirely. You move this, this, and this. Next fund, 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 it may take three years to show that transition worked, by which point they will have churned because they will have gone Nabil. You changed your team entirely. You move this, this, and this. Next fund, 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

So what should we be doing? I learn from amazing guests like you on the show. I am building a firm. When we think about reshaping our firms to a new world of venture and startups, what needs to be done?

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

So what should we be doing? I learn from amazing guests like you on the show. I am building a firm. When we think about reshaping our firms to a new world of venture and startups, what needs to be done?

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

So what should we be doing? I learn from amazing guests like you on the show. I am building a firm. When we think about reshaping our firms to a new world of venture and startups, what needs to be done?

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

In terms of the heuristics for how you define quality, a lot of traditional investments are made with, oh, they're at X million in error, and it's been 18 months to X million error. That was a classic, like 18 months to 10 million error, gold standard. AI is just completely blowing that out of the water, and we see multiple products hit 10 million error in a couple of months. Yes.

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

In terms of the heuristics for how you define quality, a lot of traditional investments are made with, oh, they're at X million in error, and it's been 18 months to X million error. That was a classic, like 18 months to 10 million error, gold standard. AI is just completely blowing that out of the water, and we see multiple products hit 10 million error in a couple of months. Yes.

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

In terms of the heuristics for how you define quality, a lot of traditional investments are made with, oh, they're at X million in error, and it's been 18 months to X million error. That was a classic, like 18 months to 10 million error, gold standard. AI is just completely blowing that out of the water, and we see multiple products hit 10 million error in a couple of months. Yes.

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

That will probably be dead in two years. So how do we think about revenue as a heuristic for quality?

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

That will probably be dead in two years. So how do we think about revenue as a heuristic for quality?

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

That will probably be dead in two years. So how do we think about revenue as a heuristic for quality?

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

A promotion for a better job. They want to bounce to Sequoia or bounce to be a GP somewhere else.

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

A promotion for a better job. They want to bounce to Sequoia or bounce to be a GP somewhere else.

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

A promotion for a better job. They want to bounce to Sequoia or bounce to be a GP somewhere else.

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

Jason Lemkin always says that the adventure is a packaging industry. I need to get this, package it up, and then shift it on to the next person. Yeah. You hate that analogy. I hate that analogy deeply.

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

Jason Lemkin always says that the adventure is a packaging industry. I need to get this, package it up, and then shift it on to the next person. Yeah. You hate that analogy. I hate that analogy deeply.

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

Jason Lemkin always says that the adventure is a packaging industry. I need to get this, package it up, and then shift it on to the next person. Yeah. You hate that analogy. I hate that analogy deeply.

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 so a winning strategy respectfully is back amazing founders with unique insights and go long.