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NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation Sep 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:50 Jason Lemkin And the marketing annoyed me that every CMO, um, at like Sastre annual two years ago was buying clay.

Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:55 Jason Lemkin We had a little Napa retreat break after Sastry annual this year, and it, the, the, the, the Tesla took us the long way through the South Bay, which I haven't done in a while, rather than the bridge.

Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 14, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:38 Jason Lemkin Yeah, I, I, I, you know, certainly we're going to rebuild our financial stack after Sastra annual and, and we will move from Brex to ramp if it is the most agent friendly and automating procurement is a huge bonus.

Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 7, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 59:35 Jason Lemkin It's gonna be a little higher this month because of Saster Annual, but not much, man.
  • ▶ 1:18:10 Jason Lemkin I mean, I met Tom once through you when he was at Sastra London.
  • ▶ 1:30:49 Jason Lemkin So last night we had our AI VP of customer success reach out to 120 sponsors for Saster Annual, asking them exactly what their issues were, telling me everything they had to do and get it done.

Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:19 Jason Lemkin This might be, and I remember back in the day at Saster Annual, Ryan Smith came and, um, Qualtrics had just been acquired for seven billion and our jaws dropped back then.
  • ▶ 1:14:32 Jason Lemkin And so for example, like after Sastre annual in May, we're going to build our own AI VP of finance, our own.

NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:06 unnamed speaker I went back, we did a Saster annual during the Corona, during the pandemic in 20, 21.

Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:53 Jason Lemkin I mean, when we had, uh, when we had the CEO of Snowflake at Sastre Annual in May, just starting to talk about how they were going to use agents, right?

OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13:18 Jason Lemkin You know, I remember when Michael Cannon Brooks came to Sastra, which was a long time ago, Sastra Annual, and he said, we had the CEO of Trello interview him right after he got acquired. 2 times in the scene

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:14 Jason Lemkin I just remember September, 22, September, 20, 22 Saster annual was in September then, and the Adobe deal acquisition happened and it, no one talked to 10,000 people talked about nothing but Figma.

Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:24 Jason Lemkin I mean, literally out of SAS Daniel this year, one of the, one of the, one of the folks that helped put us on, he rewrote the best summary of the day that day of his day.
  • ▶ 1:03:27 Jason Lemkin You know, I thought when I, when I read that, um, I, it sounded to me like every backstage conversation I had at Sastre annual this year with public company CEOs, which is.

a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:42 Jason Lemkin I used to, I would come to Sastre Angle and every year I talked to some founder and be like, well, we're here.

Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:13 Jason Lemkin Um, we'd have to IPO well north of thirty billion for it to be worth it, which, which you can believe, but then you look and you're like, man, if there's even more than a 10%, 20% antitrust rate, putting that in, the distraction is so…

Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:15 Jason Lemkin I remember at saster annual when they came together and they're like, yeah, like people thought it was crazy.

Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 12, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 57:52 Sam Blond I remember the first time we sponsored, uh, Saster at, um, Brex. 6 times in the scene

Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 4, 2024 · 1 mention

Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:03 Jason Lemkin It's like, hey, you know, hey, Doug at Iconic, I know I saw you at Saster Annual, um, let's catch up.

Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:03 Jason Lemkin I remember like, you know, going back in time in March, 2020, when we had to cancel Saster Annual the night before, we lost ten million dollars, ok?

20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round Mar 20, 2017 · 4 mentions

20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems Oct 31, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings However, to the show today, and this one is a really special one for me, as I met today's guest at SASTA Annual, and since then, I've been one of his and the firm's biggest supporters.
  • ▶ 2:34 Harry Stebbings Mamoon, so awesome to have you on the 20 Minute VC, having met in real life, a rarity for me at SASTA in SF, but so thank you so much for joining me today.

20VC: The Secret To Building Pattern Recognition, Why MBA Does Not Always Equal Great Founder & What Are The Right Reasons To Start A Company With Hardi Meybaum, General Partner @ Matrix Partners Oct 5, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings You are listening to part two of this very special feature week of Matrix Partners on the 20 Minute VC with your host Harry Stebbings at hstebbings on Snapchat, and if you add me stay on Snapchat, that's Wednesday the fifth of October,…
  • ▶ 26:53 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic story and journey that is to GP at Matrix today from Hardy, and so fantastic to have him on the show, and a huge hand to him for giving up his time, and if you love the episode today with Hardy, and do not want to leave…

20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures Apr 18, 2016 · 1 mention

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