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20VC: Anthropic's $10BN Round | Klarna's IPO Broken Down | Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine | Martin Casado: Is Consensus Investing the Only Game | Why Satya is Chatting S*** on SaaS Apps Disappearing featuring Marc Benioff

Author
The Twenty Minute VC
Published
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/20vc-anthropics-10bn-round-klarnas-ipo-broken-down-inside-a16zs-72-deal-seed-investment-machine-martin-casado-is-consensus-investing-the-only-game-why-satya-is-chatting-s-on-saas-apps-disappearing-featuring-marc-benioff

AGENDA:

​​00:00 – Marc Benioff vs Snowflake, Databricks & Palantir: Who Wins the Data Cloud War?

05:10 – Does Benioff Feel The Need to Buy AI Talent Like Zuck Is?

09:00 – What Salesforce has Learned From Palantir on Forward Deployed Engineers?

18:00 – Will SaaS apps disappear in an AI world? Why Satya is Chatting S***

23:40 – Are SDRs really screwed by AI… or just evolving?

26:10 – Benioff on Who Wins: OpenAI or Anthropic?

30:00 – Nat Friedman reports to Alex Wang: Genius move or career downgrade?

34:00 – Anthropic’s $10B round: Have we hit peak AI hype?

47:00 – Klarna’s wild ride: From $45B to $6B to IPO at $15B

55:00 – Inside a16z’s seed machine: 72 bets vs Sequoia’s 27

57:45 – Martìn Casado: Is consensus investing dangerous—or the only game?

01:05:00 – The big lesson: consensus, contrarian, and why investing is harder than ever

 

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