Matt Murphy
13 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2026 by Matt Murphy · said 5 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Gitlab Founder, Sid Sijbrandji on Lessons From Scaling from 400 to 1,000 People in 1 Year, Why You Have To Have A Low Level Of Shame On The Product You Release & The Secret To Making Remote Work So Effectively At Scale
- 20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
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Jul 27, 2026 positive
Jul 27, 2026 negative
Outlier venture investments do not require internal partnership dissent
“I don't really ascribe to this point of view where you need like a bunch of no's and there's one person who's a yes, and that leads to an outlier. I know there are examples of that, but that's not really been my experience in the firms I've been part of or wit…”
Jul 27, 2026 negative
Multi-team VC platform expansion destroys partner alignment
“When you go full, full stack and you have like five different teams, you start doing sector, like everybody's kind of out for a pass and Sometimes I've seen this in other places where you feel like, well, I could do whatever I could do great things, but I can'…”
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Jul 27, 2026 positive
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
Open-source models will not displace top foundation models like Anthropic
“I think the foundation models, let's say specifically Anthropic, have such special models. This can be hard for somebody to just kind of say, I've used open source with my data. It's going to be functional and positive for some amount of what you're doing, but…”
Jul 27, 2026
Small stakes in massive outliers beat high ownership in mid-sized exits
“You have to be in the big outliers to drive great returns, and you're better off being in them at a very small percent than owning a large percent of a company that exits for three to 500. Those just aren't going to move the needle.”
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Jul 27, 2026 positive
Legal AI startup Legora plans to expand into tax and accounting
“I mean, look, Max, I guess maybe he hasn't been as public about it, but absolutely that's part of the strategy. You know, when we got to know each other and we were thinking about the round and justifying not only the current round and hopefully, you know, par…”
Jul 27, 2026
Lacking a prior relationship is the main reason VCs lose deals
“The thing that's most often is that you were late to the party, right? Like, you know, you were not intentional enough that this was a company that you wanted to be tracking and building a relationship, so you're coming in, you know, a couple weeks or a month …”
Jul 27, 2026 positive
ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski is an outlier founder like Jeff Bezos
“The one company that I've really admired and, you know as the kind of like outlier entrepreneurs, we, in my history going back, like you look at the companies that became great, you know, when I was early days of client, there was like, you know Jeff Bezos and…”