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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 1:19:33 Jason Lemkin And then the new AI regulatory council, Trump regulatory council, came in and changed things again.
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 15:10 Jason Lemkin It did, you know, it didn't work with Trump.
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:11:05 Rory O'Driscoll Why is the Trump administration picking on Andreessen Horowitz?
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:12:14 Harry Stebbings Trump's been good for business, but bad for everything else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:14 David Frankel And by that, that's a negative of the Trump administration is we need much more money being spent on R&D.
- ▶ 1:26:09 Harry Stebbings The one thing that you worry about is a Trump change in administration and what that does to regulation around them.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 4:08 Rory O'Driscoll Such one dimension, you know, the, the policy advisor for OpenAI, formerly from the Trump administration, making some comments on Twitter leading to a wonderful firestorm that we'll absolutely talk about. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Rory O'Driscoll This is the Trump administration, so things change every day, but a political league today basically saying some version of we're not going to ban these things on any significant basis, which, as Jason points out, is very different than…
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:29 Harry Stebbings I think it's unequivocally on the rise given what we saw with the Trump administration banning 5 times in the scene
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:42 unnamed speaker I'm like, this is the weirdest kissing the ring in a weird corrupt administration where our president made two billion dollars off crypto and friends last year and profits. 4 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:11 Jason Lemkin At this point, whether the, uh, whether the, uh, spite startup vibe of where the safe guys has expired and led to conflict with Trump, putting that aside, I think he wants the models banned for use by us companies.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:44 Harry Stebbings Has Trump made business better in the US?
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:00 Harry Stebbings Sorry, is there a chance that in a non-Trump administration the party stops?
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:43 Harry Stebbings I don't want to make it political, but isn't that Donald Trump's, like, the art of the deal, like, leverage?
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:03 Harry Stebbings I loved it when Trump landed in China, and they played YMCA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:45 Harry Stebbings I find TV most nerve-wracking, because it's like, you have, like, five to seven minutes, and they're like, so Ryan, let's join you for, is Trump wrong on, and you're like, no, no intros, no in and outs.
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:06 Harry Stebbings Is the Trump administration unwaveringly better for business?
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:09 Harry Stebbings Has Trump been better for business for you?
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:54 Tobi Lütke Unfortunately, the way that intermeshes with the Trump administration is, is, is really brutal, because it creates this sort of positive feedback loop inside of Canada, which is, because he is so unbelievably not nice. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:10 Harry Stebbings I'm not sure if most of your interviews quite cover the future of climate, Trump and Canada's relationship, the future of developers in organizations, but I've so enjoyed this.
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:17 Harry Stebbings Trump would be proud.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:59 Harry Stebbings Do you think Trump's doing a good job?
- ▶ 13:59 Jake Paul You know, link with Trump's pastor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:26 Harry Stebbings You mentioned getting to spend a couple of hours with the president, um, this was from friends of yours, not from me, so I'm, I'm not stoking any flames here, they are. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:31 Jeffrey Wu Because I think that, I think President Trump does a very good job of showing, like, the raw human
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:58 Anjney Midha Now, president Trump is actually, I think trying to do his best from what I can tell in at least giving America enough freedom to innovate that these standards can even be discovered in our labs here.
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:04 Marc Andreessen And he said, one of them is president of the United States, um, and the other is Adam Neumann.
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:36 Harry Stebbings Yeah, but in a de-globalized Trump world, I'm just doing the kind of alternate argument here just to understand. 2 times in the scene
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:01 Harry Stebbings Does this labor displacement, does it help or hurt a Trump administration?
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:03 Jason Lemkin Elon's worst fact was that Trump hated him for about six months.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:44 unnamed speaker Gemini, massive cashflow and, um, XAI crazy, but you know, it, it'll get a trillion of Trump contracts.
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 1:08:17 Harry Stebbings But, like, I don't know if you're allowed to, like, use, like, Trump's voice and Obama's voice and, like, just rip. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:38 Rory O'Driscoll You have Trump already commenting a little bit on the Netflix side.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 53:29 Harry Stebbings Do you think Trump has done more for US tech to help or to hurt him?
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:31 Harry Stebbings Do you think Trump has done more to help or to hurt the progression of AI in the United States from an infrastructure perspective? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:51 Andrew Ng Over a year ago, we thought that, uh, this is actually, um, uh, after, uh, after one of the Biden-Trump debates, you know, for better or worse, we thought that tariff compliance may become an issue.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:27 Jason Lemkin Trump and listen, no politics here. 3 times in the scene
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:28 Harry Stebbings Do you think Trump's done more to help or to hurt the US AI effort? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:29 Andrew Feldman I, I think the Trump administration's done a good job in, in generally relaxing some of the regulations that were painful.
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:45 Jason Lemkin Including the beginning of Stargate, which I didn't understand and why the hell Larry Ellison was there with Donald Trump.
- ▶ 1:24:15 Harry Stebbings This story, whatever story, do you remember that Elon and Donald Trump broke up in the most blazing of rounds?
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:57 Harry Stebbings It's a European model and it doesn't have ownership in the US under a Trump administration.
- ▶ 51:26 Harry Stebbings When you think about the requirements from an energy perspective, and then also what you just said there about kind of labor, do you think Trump and the Trump administration is doing more to help or to hurt the advancement of AI in the US?
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:42 Harry Stebbings So I'm not going into Trump or politics very deliberately, 2 times in the scene
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Are you more bullish on the future of the states with the Trump administration or not?
- ▶ 25:43 Harry Stebbings Um, are you more bullish on the future of the states with the Trump administration or not?
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:47 unnamed speaker Honestly, to me, it's a reminder, we've talked about this, to really scrutinize Sam to see the future, because he goes to Trump, right?
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:19 Harry Stebbings It means like Trump influences US tech companies?
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:30 Harry Stebbings And Chamath announced his new SPAC today, and in the prospectus it says if they do lose their entire capital, they will embody the adage from President Trump that there can be no crying in the casino.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:04 Jason Lemkin You know, uh, you know, Trump has already lassoed into Stargate with David Sack.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:52 Harry Stebbings Do Trump's cuts to university's research labs not impact your ability to do what you just said? 3 times in the scene
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:17 unnamed speaker But I also worry this is going to be like the Trump administration.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:50 Harry Stebbings Trump mobile smartphone. 6 times in the scene
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:18 Harry Stebbings Do you think Trump and a less stable America makes it easier for us to bring talent to Europe?
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:38 unnamed speaker Yes, because Trump announced a Trump phone at 499 dollars to be built in the U.S. yesterday. 2 times in the scene
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:29 Jason Lemkin I don't even know if Trump cares anymore, so I don't know if the rest of the world will care.
- ▶ 1:17:28 Jason Lemkin I don't know whether it's right to, to, to, to take on the Trump administration.
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 44:37 Harry Stebbings If you have a breaking bad, I think that's amazing, but we also have, like, Trump's buying a Tesla and, you know, a war, and, like, it just takes so much more to cut through the news cycle that, like, a breaking bad prize draw, like, is it?
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:54 Harry Stebbings Will Trump cut corporate tax this year? 6 times in the scene
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 1:09:19 Harry Stebbings But, like, I don't know if you're allowed to, like, use, like, Trump's voice and Obama's voice and, like, just rip. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:32 Harry Stebbings Trump posted to TrueSocial.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:36 unnamed speaker We had these Trump, Trump drama.
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:45 Rory O'Driscoll In 25, it's the Trump crisis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:58 Jason Lemkin This is even pre Trump, pre everything. 2 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:01 Harry Stebbings Are you more excited and is the business better in a Trump administration than in a Biden administration? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 44:31 Richard Socher And you ask like, what's new with Trump?
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:30 Harry Stebbings Trump does something crazy.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 3:37 Harry Stebbings We are looking today, tech stocks are getting hammered, uh, late trading today in response to Trump's admin, between 10% and 49% on imported goods with the tariffs.
- ▶ 14:17 Jason Lemkin Especially if, you know, pros and cons looking at the stock market, but if Trump remains pro M&A,
- ▶ 1:11:31 unnamed speaker And the contracting is, is something that, you know, if Elon and, and, and the Trump administration could do something, uh, to change the contracting.
- ▶ 1:22:12 Harry Stebbings And so fast with the rise of Trump, with the rise of Elon, with the rise of Sam Altman and AI bluntly, this is super hot today. 4 times in the scene
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:09 Andrew Feldman Now, that they chose to announce it right around Trump's inauguration and the politics of it, that, that, that's all a separate matter, and, and we can talk about that later, but, um, Is distillation wrong?
- ▶ 1:03:15 Andrew Feldman We did some of the same things that Trump won administration, right?
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:42 Harry Stebbings No, because a lot of you are like, oh, you know, Harris, Harris, Harris, Trump comes in, does a load of really efficient stuff, markets go to the fucking moon, and you're still like, meh. 3 times in the scene
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:40 Harry Stebbings Are you more excited in the post-Trump? 3 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:14 Harry Stebbings Does Trump open up M&A and IPO markets?
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:36 Shervin Pishevar Um, and then I found out through our investigation, uh, two weeks later, after I won this case, um, there was a firm called Fusion GPS, which is the firm famously that, uh, did the Russian dossier against Trump, the fake Russian dossier. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:15 Shervin Pishevar He was gonna go to jail until he got pardoned, uh, by Trump, uh, in the first administration.
- ▶ 1:02:12 Shervin Pishevar So I think in the Trump administration, we'll see changes in that direction of like opening it up.
- ▶ 1:02:53 Shervin Pishevar I think, I think during the, you know, I, I was an early, um, person to come out and support Trump, and I co-hosted David Sachs' fundraiser with Chamath back in, uh, June six, um, and publicly endorsed Trump, and, you know, and most of my,… 3 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:40 Harry Stebbings He controls the digital town hall now with Trump.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:35 Reid Hoffman Now, that being said, one of the things that I think is part of the reason why I have been critical of some of Trump's supporters and some of what Trump has done is because, um, there is, uh, even in the first administration, there was… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Harry Stebbings What, what Trump did well was harnessing actually TikTok and younger people to vote.
- ▶ 32:24 Harry Stebbings He kind of owns the physical town hall now with ownership of, you know, Donald.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:04 Harry Stebbings How do you think a Trump administration changes the European funding requirements in this situation? 3 times in the scene
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:50 unnamed speaker And I think buying it is, and I guess we'll sort of see the Trump administration, but I think it's still going to be pretty hard, uh, from a, from an antitrust perspective.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:22 Harry Stebbings You know, Trump is consistently saying, we need to spend a significantly higher portion of GDP on defense, and we need to start paying for defense ourselves, and we're going, wah, wah, wah, wah, you keep paying. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:39 Harry Stebbings If Trump says, hey, I'm not going to continue subsidizing your defense, good luck.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09 Matt Grimm Uh, obviously President Trump was reelected to a second term.
- ▶ 2:41 Harry Stebbings Do you think Andrew will thrive better in a Trump administration, though, versus a Kamala administration? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:49 Matt Grimm In a new Trump administration?
- ▶ 11:14 Harry Stebbings Do you think Trump will be able to bring the two parties together and form a resolution, as he said very clearly? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:03 Harry Stebbings Um, but my question to you is, was Trump right then in suggesting that the EU should be spending a lot more, and the US should be spending less on EU defense?
- ▶ 1:20:41 Matt Grimm Uh, in the early days when people were very uncomfortable with the ethics of defense, especially in a Trump administration, if you remember at the time, like Trump had just won. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:06 Matt Grimm We get asked all the time about kind of the usual questions of AI and ethics, and of course you can't go through any media engagement without talking about President Trump.
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:23 Eoghan McCabe It's crystal clear that Trump and fans are the people who are promoting the most personal liberties and freedoms.
- ▶ 31:17 Harry Stebbings Why then be pro-Trump? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:28 Harry Stebbings But everything from DEI to their being afraid to say about Trump, like, I, I don't feel any freedom to say anything around that. 2 times in the scene
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:21 Harry Stebbings We could, we could not have created Trump fakes with his voice declaring war on China. 3 times in the scene
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:04 Harry Stebbings How does a Harris versus a Trump administration change public market health sentiment?
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