The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Jake Paul is one of the most influential creators of the digital era, with over 70M+ followers across platforms. He transitioned from YouTube stardom to become one of the biggest pay-per-view draws in boxing history with fights against Mike Tyson and Anthony Joshua. Jake is also Co-Founder of Anti Fund, where he has made investments in Ramp, Anduril, Cognition and Olipop to name a few.
Geoffrey Wu is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Anti Fund. He previously built his career at Goldman Sachs and Point72. He is at the forefront of a new model of investing—where distribution is as powerful as capital.
AGENDA:
00:00 — Why Attention is Now More Valuable Than Cash
04:36 — Inside the Secret $BN Jake Paul Business Empire
06:50 — Jake Paul's MasterClass on How to Tell Great Stories
10:50 — Why Jake Paul Is Literally Uncancelable
16:15 — The Brutal Reality of VC: Why Seed Investing is for Amateurs
25:10 — Is AI About to Make the Entire Human Race Unemployed?
33:15 — Trump Endorsed Me: Is Jake Paul Actually Running for President?
41:10 — The 60/40 Rule: How to Build an Unbreakable Relationship
44:15 — Dark Side of Greatness: Is Jake Paul a "Psychopathic" Work Addict?
50:20 — The Ultimate Choice: Boxing, Content, or Investing?

AGENDA:
00:00 — Anthropic Unveils Mythos: The Model "Too Good at Hacking" to Release
05:56 — Why Mythos is a Quantum Leap in Cyber Risk
10:11 — The "Boy Who Cried Wolf": Jason's Critique of Dario Amodei
14:00 — The Oppenheimer Moment: Are Founders Using Doom as a Marketing Tool?
19:22 — Amazon's $20B Secret: Is NVIDIA's Chip Stranglehold Finally Loosening?
22:28 — Claude vs. Lovable & Replit: Anthropic Moves into App Building
25:24 — The 60% Death Spiral: Why Public SaaS Stocks are Entering a Doom Loop
39:51 — Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Alex Wang's First Model from Super Intelligence Labs
44:18 — OpenAI's $50B Ad Vision: The Plan to Monetize Intelligence
53:50 — Token Maxing: How CIOs are Reclaiming Control Over AI Budgets
57:57 — SpaceX's Leaked Financials: The Math Behind the $2 Trillion IPO
1:08:00 — Thoma Bravo Shuts Growth Equity
1:16:18 — Who IPOs First; OpenAI or Anthropic?

Anj Midha is the founder of AMP, and a founding investor in Anthropic. Most recently, Anj was General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, leading frontier AI investments. He serves on the boards of Mistral, Black Forest Labs, Sesame, LMArena, OpenRouter, Luma AI and Periodic Labs and is an early angel in ElevenLabs among others. Prior to that, Anj was the cofounder/CEO of Ubiquity6 (acquired by Discord) and a partner at Kleiner Perkins.
AGENDA:
 
04:00 Why the "Scaling Laws are Dead" rumor is dangerously wrong
05:30 The 4 bottlenecks stopping us from reaching Super Intelligence
11:30 Where will the actual value accrue in an AI-dominated world?
12:00 Why Europe is building a "Sovereign Stack" to escape US dominance
15:00 Inside the brutal early days of Anthropic and the 21 VCs who said "No"
19:30 Why the most successful AI startups are ditching the "Profit-First" motive
34:30 The 1885 Industrial Revolution: Why we have a "GPU Wastage" bubble
38:00 Is the CCP actually winning the full-stack AI systems race?
43:30 Monopoly Mafias: Will model providers eventually kill the App Layer?

Carles Reina is VP of Sales at ElevenLabs, where he was the first investor and fourth employee. Carles has scaled the revenue org from Day 1 to over $350M in just 3 years. Carles is also an active investor with investments in ElevenLabs, Revolut, Happy Robot and more.  
AGENDA:
00:00 - Is the Traditional CRO Dead in the Age of AI?
01:01 - Building the AI Sales Machine: Agents that Actually Generate Revenue
08:35 - Will AI Shrink the Sales Teams of the Future?
09:51 - The ElevenLabs Masterclass: Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota
11:00 - How to Structure Explosive Sales Accelerators
12:15 - Why You Should Stop Paying Commission on Pilots
14:00 - Customer Success: Is it 'Total Bullshit' or a Growth Engine?
16:15 - The 'Global-First' Fallacy: Why You Need to Open Every Market Now
17:23 - Why Startups Are Wrong to Ignore 20-Year Sales Veterans
19:15 - The Pipeline Construction Secret: Liquidity vs. Whales
24:30 - Forecasting the Unpredictable: How to Hit a $1B Revenue Target
31:55 - The Substitution Threat: Is AI Voice Just a Commodity?
34:10 - Verticalization Mistakes: Lessons from Scaling India
38:40 - The 'IBM Effect': Does Brand Actually Shorten Sales Cycles?
40:15 - Extreme Expectations: Why ElevenLabs is a Hard Company to Work For
42:15 - Internal Leaderboards: How to Use Public Competition to Drive Results
44:20 - Hunting the Obsessed: Identifying the 'Inner Psychopath' in Hires
46:40 - The SaaS Apocalypse: Will Companies Build Their Own CRM?
48:30 - Formula 1 Branding: The Mindset Behind the Audi-Revolut Deal
50:15 - Dinner vs. Conferences: Which Marketing Channels Actually Scale?
52:45 - Designing Un-Salesy Content: How to Run a Legendary Summit
54:20 - CVC Strategy: Turning Corporate Investors into Distribution Channels
01:01:45 - The Globalization Nightmare: Why You Can't Sell in English Everywhere
01:06:45 - Operator-Investors: Can You Be a High-Performer and a VC Simultaneously?
01:11:30 - Unit Economics in AI: Why Good Early Numbers Might Mean Failure
01:18:25 - The Next Wave: Why Foundational Model Consolidation is Inevitable

AGENDA:
03:59 — Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI in Revenue
12:43 — OpenAI Management Reboot
18:24 — OpenAI Buys TBPN
29:00 — SpaceX Files for IPO Targeting $2 Trillion Valuation
37:21 — Doug Leone Returns to Sequoia Capital
41:14 — YC Kicks Out Delve
45:21 — The Rise of Open Router
57:59 — Supabase Targeting $10B Valuation
01:08:18 — The Mercor Hack and AI Cyber Threats Moving Forward
01:17:25 — The $1.8B Two-Person Company