Jason Lemkin

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26,931 appearances 51 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 — 50 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 10.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | GPT Astra and Fable 5.1 Accelerate the Model Race | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town & Anthropic Pulls From Descartes Acquisition · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

VCs like that shit. voice-verified

And once they're not willing to sell any more primary shares, I'm sure the VCs went to the CEO and said, dude, you want to take care of your people? voice-verified

And his like, hmm, I need more people because I need to grow this business, which means I need talent, because it's probably quite talent dense. voice-verified

And, you know, it probably takes a lot of people to do this kind of on-site deployment. voice-verified

So the number one voice-verified

One thing I need as the CEO of this company is for potential future employees to think this is a gold mine. voice-verified

So in fact, probably having a secondary is good for them because from a recruiting perspective, it allows you to say to the next hundred people, come to work with us. voice-verified

Yes, you'll get stuck on a five month deployment on a bank in Holland or a, you know, a electrical company in Germany. voice-verified

It'll be boring as shit. voice-verified

But in return you'll make a ton of money. voice-verified

So I it all voice-verified

make sense. voice-verified

Whether it turns out to be a good deal or not, well that's why they play the game. voice-verified

Don't know. voice-verified

But I can totally see how it's happened. voice-verified

Agreed. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Sophisticated buyers. voice-verified

What can you do? voice-verified

My aha is the prize does go to the companies that can evolve the quickest. voice-verified

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