corporate venture capital

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 18, 2021 by Brendan Wallace · across every show →

Everything said about corporate venture capital, oldest first

Feb 18, 2021 bullish
Prediction Held up
Wallace: Corporate VC will exceed 50% of all venture dollars by 2031
“And I expect that sometime over the next decade, it'll be more than half.”
Brendan Wallace Feb 18, 2021 ▶ 37:35 20VC Special: The Real Estate Fintech OGs on Why This Is Not The End For The Bay Area and What Can Be Done To Solve It, The Pros and Cons of Working with Corporate Investors and How Leading Their Teams Has Fundamentally Changed in a COVID World
Aug 22, 2022 negative
Opinion
Wesley Chan: Founders Hate Corporate VC Due to Divergent Interests
“Corporate venture capital has been an utter distaste and a success and founders hate it because, you know, the interest of the company that's investing in the interest of the founders diverge.”
Wesley Chan Aug 22, 2022 ▶ 2:26 Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 11, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: Corporate venture investments allow companies to deploy cash without reducing EPS
“When big companies with a lot of cash make corporate investments, it's weird because if you're generating, at least in the US, if you're generating massive amounts of cash, it's orphaned on your balance sheet. You can't just go hire a thousand engineers. It hu…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 48:45 OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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