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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:11:57 Rory O'Driscoll It turns out under the Biden administration, the DOJ, I think it's the FTC within the DOJ, but don't quote me, had actually made some actions on that.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:39 Josh Browder The, the worst kind of Lina Khan story I heard is there's like a biotech company that, um, was being acquired by a much larger kind of pharmaceutical company, and Lina Khan's FTC blocked the acquisition, and to this day, and the drug…
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:48 Rory O'Driscoll And I put, my guess is in part, it was the willingness to do one of these aqua hire type deals that made it palatable, because Nvidia is probably sitting there going, if we announce this as a classic quote unquote M&A, I got to believe…
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:25 Rory O'Driscoll Netflix is much more concerned for the FTC cause of monopoly power, you know, alleged monopoly power because HBO is a streamer and Netflix is a streamer.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:38 unnamed speaker And the FTC led by Lena Kahn chose to block that deal because I think Benedict Evans said in his place because of an insipid monopoly in the house vacuum cleaner marketplace, very tongue in cheek, right? 2 times in the scene
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:05 Byron Deeter The FTC is finally taking a more rational posture on, um, antitrust and, and, you know, blocking deals and these things.
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:17 Miles Dieffenbach That's got to go through FTC approval.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:36 unnamed speaker Cause whenever you've been, whenever people have been equivocal on that, one of my bigger hearts, whenever we've been equivocal on these kinds of questions, you end up with people coming up with dumbass things like the whole AI regulation,… 2 times in the scene
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:32 Rory O'Driscoll Hell, I don't know, but you look, there's a bunch of obvious players, um, you know, Apple being one of them, and there's other, but I think that the big wild card and the reason this kind of pontification is hard is the whole FTC process… 2 times in the scene
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:45 Rory O'Driscoll It sounds like some combination of Microsoft and the FTC prevented them from buying this company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 Rory O'Driscoll The real risk is that the facts and circumstance make it clear that this was a de facto an acquisition and the FTC comes sniffing around because they are sniffing around on some of these other deals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 unnamed speaker You got to assume there might've been some FTC pushback there because open AI announced the real acquisition. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Rory O'Driscoll And if the FTC would get back to being sensible, because all this, this entire podcast is basically the FTC fucked up normal business operations.
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:01 Scott Galloway Well, you have thoughtful economists and people who said, for example, IPG and Omnicom, their merger was held up by the FTC. 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
- ▶ 51:53 Harry Stebbings You know, there's been some back and forth with DOJ, FTC.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:17 Hussein Kanji Yes, because I think JD Vance has made that very clear, that sub-five hundred million dollar deals, the FTC has no business trying to, trying to block transactions.
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:11 Cem Sertoglu You know, we'll see what the FTC governance will look like post-election.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:59 Mamoon Hamid It wasn't Lena, ah, or the FTC, ah, there were other issues.
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:26 Arvind Narayanan The FTC, uh, has been worried about, uh, the Federal Trade Commission in the US, uh, 3 times in the scene
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:01 Roger Ehrenberg The M&A market became increasingly challenging with Lena Khan and the FTC getting much, much more aggressive, but they've got really great portfolios, but they haven't had a lot of DPI.
- ▶ 1:15:36 Roger Ehrenberg Yes, certainly with a different head of the FTC, it's, I mean, the pendulum has swung all the way in the other direction.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:59 Keith Rabois I think Figma in some ways was easier case for the government in the FTC, which has been very aggressive than many other cases. 3 times in the scene
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:42 William Hockey I think the FTC and the DOJ, especially if, you know, the, the, the executive branch stays where it is, I think that will kind of, you know, diminish for good or for bad.
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 29:28 Roger Ehrenberg Kind of antipathy towards big tech on both sides of the pond, especially with the US FTC flexing their muscles. 3 times in the scene