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

And to me, that's kind of how I enjoy music as well.

And that if they could abstract at that level, my thesis was they could be the right tech investor to think about health care in a new, different way.

So found a way to get to them through an angel, through a friend at MIT.

We went in and we sort of pitched.

And I knew at the end of that meeting that we were going to work together.

That would go against me.

You know, speaking of Andy, Andy says this thing.

He's like the biggest coffee snob in the world.

And I once asked him like about exactly what his rituals are and the temperature and like the bean and all that stuff.

And he was just like, coffee's coffee, man.

I'll have any coffee.

And when you ask him about music, he'll say, I like all the sounds.

So maybe on some level, you can see the patterns and you can enjoy anything.

When we created our company values, and this is before this whole taste cycle, we created our company values in like maybe the most recent variant in 2021 or 2022.

One of them is that you have to taste good things to have good taste.

And this idea of taste, I think, makes a ton of sense to us.

It's not just judgment, but it's being able to sort of see patterns, but put things together in interesting ways that hit different, that feel different, that feel authentic, that really represent a person or people.

And I think that's where the really, truly magical companies are these days, like where you can kind of feel like the human behind this product.

and feel like the decisions that they made, the things that they said no to, the strong opinions held tightly that they died on the hill for.

No, but I do think it means you got to be discerning.

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