Zach Lloyd
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730
total appearances
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Podcast Appearances
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
About a million percent.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Do you not do that for your portfolio companies?
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Do I?
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Yes.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
But did most other VCs?
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
That's like one of the things that I'm actually wanting.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
The other VCs I have are like, I have Greg from Box Group and Eric from GV and I trust them all to be like pretty cool.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
He's good.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
I mean, I worked with him at Google.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
So, it's like there's just very, very long relationships here that I have with these people in terms of trust.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Well, I mean, you burned that relationship now.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
I don't care.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Like, that's not a thing I'm afraid of saying.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Like, they need to, like, get their, like, I'm saying it all the time.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Like, you know, I have an 18-month-old son, right?
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
And his new favorite thing is to talk to our, we have Google Home.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
And we'll be like, hey, Google, what's a horse sound like?
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
And it'll be like, meh.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
And so he walks around.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
He's like, Google, Google, whatever.