Matt Murphy

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612 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Leading Anthropic's First Ever Round | Will Open Source Threaten Anthropic's Business | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Why Triple, Triple, Double, Double is Not Good Enough Today | Why Series A is Hard Today with Matt Murphy @ Menlo · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

But from the outside, it wasn't quite as obvious.

So, you know, even to get, you know, the whole syndicate that we pulled together and I had to give my friend Ravi and...

Byron a call to bring them into the round as well, which all worked out.

But it wasn't, it was just, that was very nerve wracking because Menlo had never done an SPV before.

This was your first SPV?

Just happened to be over 500 million.

So you can imagine like, and by the way, it gives me great empathy for entrepreneurs, which I have anyway, because I understand how hard this is.

But like being on the front lines, having to be the person kind of, you know, capital raising, talking to these investors, getting an occasional turndown.

Having to answer second and third order questions, sometimes annoying, no offense to anybody.

That's tough, man.

That's really tough.

So that was my most nerve wracking.

But at the same time, coming out the other side of it, the most exhilarating.

And obviously, all that work was very worth it.

I'll run through a couple other, the deep seek moment.

You know, that was like, oh my God, what's happened?

And now you can't even remember that.

Then there was the Dow moment.

And, you know, it's just like this environment is so dynamic, right?

Like everything's moving so quickly that there's just like a new challenge and opportunity, both crisis and opportunity seemingly every six months or so.

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