Shiv Rao

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693 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 May

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Lessons from Jensen Huang on "Founder Mode" | How to Know if OpenAI or Anthropic Will Kill your Company | How USV Liking Music Made Them $1BN on an Investment | The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao @ Abridge · 16 May 2026 podcast

When do you need to optimize?

I think when it gets in the way of our ability to create more impact, to raise more money, to impact more users, I don't think it necessarily has to do with anything around IPOing.

One of our investors is Henry Kravis.

And I remember sitting down with him in the first meeting.

And one of his questions was, do you want to go public?

And I remember starting to clumsily navigate an answer on the fly.

And he interrupted me and said,

No, you don't.

You don't need to.

Why are you even thinking about it?

The right answer was, no, I don't need to.

I have a mission.

And to serve that mission, I will do what it takes.

And if I can do it in the private markets, I'll raise money there.

If I need to go public to do that, then I will go public.

Yeah, it is.

When you saw the announcements from OpenAI and Anthropic about forward deployed engineers and these partnerships with big private equity groups to go help their portfolios, if that wasn't a sign that there is absolutely an incredible opportunity for the foreseeable future for vertical AI, I don't know what is.

Help me understand that.

Why is that?

It's not easy.

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