20VC: Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets: From $60BN to $400M and Back to $40BN | The Biggest Opportunities, Mistakes and Challenges Ahead for One of the Public Market's Only 100x Investments
Carvana's journey from a $2 billion IPO to a $60 billion peak, a 99% drop, and a resurgence to $50 billion showcases resilience and strategic growth.
20VC: How To Do a 10x Seed Fund in 2025 | Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups an Founders | Lessons from Losing Billions Missing Airbnb and Pinterest & Investing Lessons from Charlie Munger with Mike Maples @ Floodgate
The discussion focuses on seed investing strategies, emphasizing the importance of risk management, finding inefficiencies, and the power of the Pareto principle in venture capital.
20Sales: Rippling's CRO on Why Founders Should Not Create Sales Playbooks | Why Discounting is BS and How to Create Urgency in Deals | The Biggest Lessons on Pricing and How to Win the Pricing Game with Matt Plank
The discussion focuses on the importance of hiring sales leaders early, the role of founders in creating sales playbooks, and strategies for effective sales and outbound marketing.
20VC: UiPath's Daniel Dines on Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F***** | Why We Have Reached the Upper End of Scaling Laws | The Future of Work in an Agent World and What Everyone Misunderstands About Enterprise AI
The discussion focuses on the evolution of automation and AI, emphasizing the importance of product simplicity over technological advancement.
20VC: Reid Hoffman on The Trump Administration | Elon Musk and DOGE | The US Defence Budget, NATO and The War in Ukraine | China, Tariffs and TikTok | The Future of Chips, Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing and Climate
Reid Hoffman discusses the impact of trade wars, AI, and defense spending on US prosperity.