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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

How do you approach coaching and mentorship within a partnership? How do you think about coaching in a partnership effectively?

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

Because like, you know. I have someone incredibly smart like you and then I have someone incredibly smart like Kush who tells me the opposite. Why do you think that they are very different and actually it requires different teams?

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

Because like, you know. I have someone incredibly smart like you and then I have someone incredibly smart like Kush who tells me the opposite. Why do you think that they are very different and actually it requires different teams?

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

Because like, you know. I have someone incredibly smart like you and then I have someone incredibly smart like Kush who tells me the opposite. Why do you think that they are very different and actually it requires different teams?

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

Some say that you actually become a better early stage investor, especially with a late stage mindset. You know what later stage, going back to this, you know what later stage wants. But you're also closer to public markets. You have a closer understanding of what makes a fundamentally great business.

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

Some say that you actually become a better early stage investor, especially with a late stage mindset. You know what later stage, going back to this, you know what later stage wants. But you're also closer to public markets. You have a closer understanding of what makes a fundamentally great business.

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

Some say that you actually become a better early stage investor, especially with a late stage mindset. You know what later stage, going back to this, you know what later stage wants. But you're also closer to public markets. You have a closer understanding of what makes a fundamentally great business.

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

You said service as a word quite a few times. Keith Reboy says on the show and very publicly, the best founders don't need the help of a VC. Do you agree? And how do you think about that in conjunction with service?

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

You said service as a word quite a few times. Keith Reboy says on the show and very publicly, the best founders don't need the help of a VC. Do you agree? And how do you think about that in conjunction with service?

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

You said service as a word quite a few times. Keith Reboy says on the show and very publicly, the best founders don't need the help of a VC. Do you agree? And how do you think about that in conjunction with service?

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

Actually, it wouldn't be fine. It'd be disastrous. It's not fine. Disastrous. That'd be good, man.

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

Actually, it wouldn't be fine. It'd be disastrous. It's not fine. Disastrous. That'd be good, man.

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

Actually, it wouldn't be fine. It'd be disastrous. It's not fine. Disastrous. That'd be good, man.

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

But many second time founders I meet say, listen, the thing I've learned about the first time is what I want for my venture investor is good money, good terms, get out of the way.

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

But many second time founders I meet say, listen, the thing I've learned about the first time is what I want for my venture investor is good money, good terms, get out of the way.

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

But many second time founders I meet say, listen, the thing I've learned about the first time is what I want for my venture investor is good money, good terms, get out of the way.

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 that's why it's important you do more marketing. There we go. I win this debate. Can you do that at scale though? I mean, you do what, two checks a year? Two to four at the most, but yeah, like two checks a year. You can't do many. You can't have high service and high volume. Absolutely not. It's a model. What do you do when you lose faith in the founders?

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 that's why it's important you do more marketing. There we go. I win this debate. Can you do that at scale though? I mean, you do what, two checks a year? Two to four at the most, but yeah, like two checks a year. You can't do many. You can't have high service and high volume. Absolutely not. It's a model. What do you do when you lose faith in the founders?

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 that's why it's important you do more marketing. There we go. I win this debate. Can you do that at scale though? I mean, you do what, two checks a year? Two to four at the most, but yeah, like two checks a year. You can't do many. You can't have high service and high volume. Absolutely not. It's a model. What do you do when you lose faith in the founders?

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

Your granolas of the world, respectfully, have put in the, like, incredible taste. Yes. I'm sure he's great at execution too, but there's real taste.