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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

Are you optimistic about Europe? You've got granola here. You spend some time here. No. There's been exceptions to every rule. What do you think the challenges that Europe faces then?

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

Are you optimistic about Europe? You've got granola here. You spend some time here. No. There's been exceptions to every rule. What do you think the challenges that Europe faces then?

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

They are just the only challenge that I push back on. It's like talent acquisition is so freaking hard there. Competition for talent is so high. Salaries are so high. Churn is so high. You guys are very promiscuous with your jobs. It's like, oh, well, you know what? This isn't that hot anymore. I'm sorting off to somewhere else that's way hotter.

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

They are just the only challenge that I push back on. It's like talent acquisition is so freaking hard there. Competition for talent is so high. Salaries are so high. Churn is so high. You guys are very promiscuous with your jobs. It's like, oh, well, you know what? This isn't that hot anymore. I'm sorting off to somewhere else that's way hotter.

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

They are just the only challenge that I push back on. It's like talent acquisition is so freaking hard there. Competition for talent is so high. Salaries are so high. Churn is so high. You guys are very promiscuous with your jobs. It's like, oh, well, you know what? This isn't that hot anymore. I'm sorting off to somewhere else that's way hotter.

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

Oh, well, Anthropic's new up round isn't as big as X's, so we're moving. Christ, you jump around. So what does that incentivize?

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

Oh, well, Anthropic's new up round isn't as big as X's, so we're moving. Christ, you jump around. So what does that incentivize?

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

Oh, well, Anthropic's new up round isn't as big as X's, so we're moving. Christ, you jump around. So what does that incentivize?

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

Final one before we do a quick fire. So much of our job is like you sit down with the founder after investing and they're like, what do I need to get to raise my A? And you're like, well, and you kind of plot the path.

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

Final one before we do a quick fire. So much of our job is like you sit down with the founder after investing and they're like, what do I need to get to raise my A? And you're like, well, and you kind of plot the path.

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

Final one before we do a quick fire. So much of our job is like you sit down with the founder after investing and they're like, what do I need to get to raise my A? And you're like, well, and you kind of plot the path.

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 then you kind of plot the path to A. It goes back to that. I don't like that conversation. I understand it and I have it, but it goes back to the packaging and just putting a ribbon on you and then passing you along. How do you feel about that conversation of what do I need to get an A and how do you approach it?

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 then you kind of plot the path to A. It goes back to that. I don't like that conversation. I understand it and I have it, but it goes back to the packaging and just putting a ribbon on you and then passing you along. How do you feel about that conversation of what do I need to get an A and how do you approach it?

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 then you kind of plot the path to A. It goes back to that. I don't like that conversation. I understand it and I have it, but it goes back to the packaging and just putting a ribbon on you and then passing you along. How do you feel about that conversation of what do I need to get an A and how do you approach it?

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 love that. I'm going to take that. It's just a one pager. It's like a memo. Yeah. Okay. When we look at all the cohort of enterprise companies who've raised seeds and A's over the last three to five years, and they're brought up on the triple, triple, double, double style kind of pathway. Yeah. And they're at eight to 20 million in ARR. What happens to them?

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 love that. I'm going to take that. It's just a one pager. It's like a memo. Yeah. Okay. When we look at all the cohort of enterprise companies who've raised seeds and A's over the last three to five years, and they're brought up on the triple, triple, double, double style kind of pathway. Yeah. And they're at eight to 20 million in ARR. What happens to them?

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 love that. I'm going to take that. It's just a one pager. It's like a memo. Yeah. Okay. When we look at all the cohort of enterprise companies who've raised seeds and A's over the last three to five years, and they're brought up on the triple, triple, double, double style kind of pathway. Yeah. And they're at eight to 20 million in ARR. What happens to them?

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 new growth, growth investors are going... Doesn't fit my AI company growth cycles. Lovable's at 10 million so fast. Axe's bolts at Axe so fast.

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 new growth, growth investors are going... Doesn't fit my AI company growth cycles. Lovable's at 10 million so fast. Axe's bolts at Axe so fast.

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 new growth, growth investors are going... Doesn't fit my AI company growth cycles. Lovable's at 10 million so fast. Axe's bolts at Axe so fast.