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Harry Stebbings

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
30471 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

How much money do you think you need?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

I could talk to you all day, but before we do a quick fire, how will venture be fundamentally different in five years' time than it is today?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Yeah, Robinhood Ventures, I think it is.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

They're going to say, I don't want these data.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

With the greatest of respects, a lot of the money in venture capital funds are from endowments, pension funds, teachers funds.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

And so that wealth distribution should ultimately trickle down if we believe in that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

None.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Dude, I'm going to do a quick fire round with you because otherwise I'm going to take all day.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

You can advise an LP investing in venture funds.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

One thing.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

What do you advise them?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Too many GPs are not doing the work.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

The amount of GPs who've never built anything with AI is astonishing.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

You'll laugh at me.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Like I've built with every different like vibe code provider.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

I'm trying to turn my media company into an AI first media company.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

It's pathetic compared to the shit that you do.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

But at least I'm trying.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

I'm seeing the bottlenecks of super base integrations and everything that comes with it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

And you learn by building.