Jason Lemkin

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26,324 appearances 50 recordings 3 series first heard Aug 2022 last heard 5d ago

Jason Lemkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 49 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 10.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Why "Pacing the Frontier" is BS | Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN & Meta Launches Muse | Miro Sells for $1.35BN After a $17.5BN Valuation | Mistral Raises €3BN & Could Sam Bankman-Fried Win His Freedom? · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

It's kind of a sad little thing, because the world is passing that product by. matched

And Jason will be able to tell you that, you know, you can build most of what you have in WordPress with Lovable or Replet or any one of ten things. matched

And increasingly they are, as I've quoted before, the Henry Kissinger thing about academic arguments. matched

The fights are so vicious because the prize is so small. matched

The truth is, automatic doesn't matter a damn anymore. matched

It should try and build something new, but it's it's kind of on the tail end of I mean, to Jason's point about it's on the tail end of the tech trends. matched

They should be doing things totally differently to try and survive in the brave new world. matched

Instead, they're arguing internally. matched

So that's kind of the zoom-out comment. matched

Within that context, that's kind of their big picture. matched

And the front matched

The only thing is, like all litigations, when you get caught up in the detail of the day-to-day, you forget the big picture. matched

The big picture is this company needs to point WordPress in a forward direction to think about how you take advantage of what's going on in AI and become a relevant player in the next five years. matched

Otherwise, you won't be. matched

That's the corporate imperative. matched

Instead, the corporate imperative has turned into a pissing match between the board and the CEO, where now it looks like the CEO has won. matched

Congratulations. matched

You've won the poison chalice. matched

You get to keep your diminishing empire. matched

And it's worth pointing out, this is not a board full of evil VCs. matched

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