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The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker Would you prefer to be a SpaceX investor taking 20% dilution here or a Twitter slash x.ai investor rolling into the largest market cap private company on the planet, maybe six months before it goes public? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings Last few hours, or 24 hours, SpaceX has completed the acquisition of XAI, valuing the combined private company at 1.25 trillion, as Elon moves to pair the businesses together. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:30 unnamed speaker And with one caveat vis-a-vis SpaceX versus open AI, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:21 Jason Lemkin Um, even the SpaceX IPO going to start this conversation, it may not be enough.
- ▶ 1:18:27 unnamed speaker The real problem is this with that question, how, and I've been thinking about this because you've got to have it on the space X discussion too. 4 times in the scene
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:48 Jason Lemkin We all know that some version of the bubble will pop, even if it's well after SpaceX IPOs and we have a thousand data centers in space, which is Elon's dream.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:27 unnamed speaker And you don't have to get in at the A, but, you know, you don't have to do the A of SpaceX, but you better show up on the cap table before they hit total, because that's a trillion dollars of value that you've got to get. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 19:28 Luke Harries We, like, see ourselves among, like, Palantir and OpenAI and SpaceX as we're, like, mission-driven.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:38 Rory O'Driscoll Some of us, you know, like famously at SpaceX founders put in 20%.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker SpaceX goes out first.
- ▶ 5:08 Harry Stebbings One is a cheat because she's not quite the founder, but I think Gwen Shotwell running space.
- ▶ 17:13 Harry Stebbings And the other one is, is Founders Fund, deploying three billion in under 12 months, but deploying it into Stripe, SpaceX, and Anduril. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:17 unnamed speaker You have, I mean, just taking the huge ease, you have Databricks, you have Stripe, and then you have the big one of all, SpaceX. 7 times in the scene
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:31 unnamed speaker You can't run the numbers on SpaceX and come up with that 1.5 trillion.
- ▶ 9:11 unnamed speaker And the bad news is they've left the entire compounding of Databricks, of SpaceX, of Entropic, of open AI on the table. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:16 unnamed speaker And, and, and three failed launches in, in 2007 and 2008, that's probably what SpaceX looked like too.
- ▶ 1:04:14 unnamed speaker It will be the same thing on SpaceX. 4 times in the scene
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:57 David George Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, you know, it's worked, it's worked to their advantage for sure.
- ▶ 21:53 David George Uh, the 15 would be, we led two more rounds in flock safety, or, you know, we led another round, um, you know, into Figma, or, uh, you know, we, we put more money into SpaceX.
- ▶ 51:18 David George SpaceX with Starlink is an example of this.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41 Harry Stebbings We're starting with number one, SpaceX pursuing eight hundred billion dollar valuation through secondary sale. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Rory O'Driscoll When you kind of sent out the note, you said, you know, what happens if SpaceX, Entropic, and Databricks go public, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:49 Rory O'Driscoll At eight hundred billion in SpaceX, two percent is sixteen billion.
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
- ▶ 1:05:58 Max Altman They just go, and people are like, hey, hold Andro, hold more Rippling, hold more SpaceX.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:52 Everett Randle So one of like the, the first investment that, um, that I did at Kleiner Perkins when, when I came back in, was SpaceX at a hundred and fifty billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 9:30 Harry Stebbings They, they have also 10% of SpaceX.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:41 unnamed speaker I mean, if you look at their SpaceX non-diversification, these guys strike me as the most likely to be most concentrated, right?
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:29 Hemant Taneja I'm talking about the Stripes, the SpaceX's, I think OpenAI is going to get there, uh, and Tropic and so on, right?
- ▶ 1:19:59 Hemant Taneja Um, but, so that's one, which is, I think there you could be, hey, giving people access to SpaceX and Stripe, you're, you're not gonna regret it.
- ▶ 1:33:43 Hemant Taneja There's some, uh, firms that are trying to make all their money on SpaceX and keep buying SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:50 Miles Dieffenbach And you look at some of the, the most incredible companies that have ever come out of the venture asset class, Airbnb, Uber, SpaceX, Amazon, all struggled mightily to raise their seed round.
- ▶ 39:38 Miles Dieffenbach I, we, we, we acknowledge that we could be wrong, and SpaceX, and OpenAI, and Anthropic go public at, at trillion dollar vations. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:50 Harry Stebbings Do you think there is a chance that happens that honestly, like when you look at like SpaceX, I have so many. 5 times in the scene
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:53 Jason Lemkin Elon can just fire up one of his jets or his rockets, fly wherever, raise a few more billion, fund it with SpaceX if he has to, like he's done before, and he, he can just be a friggin' force of nature in a way like no one else can. 2 times in the scene
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:13 Vlad Tenev So we wanted to start with the two companies that I think are significant, hard to get, uh, challenging, but also in demand, and that's SpaceX and OpenAI, which incidentally were the two that I used as examples when I, when I wrote my…
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:30 unnamed speaker Congratulations, you were, you know, you pissed off two million people, and the owner of X, SpaceX, and Tesla loves you, you in.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:35 Philipp Freise Uh, you know, SpaceX was just the result of opening it up to the private, to the private sphere.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:58 unnamed speaker You know, I think Palantir started that, SpaceX, and I think it's, you know, Andrel and all that now.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:19 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, if you think about that applied to today, your, your SpaceX's of the world, or your, you know.
- ▶ 29:31 Larry Aschebrook But that fund also, but by the way, that fund also had, um, Lyft, Uber, um, um, uh, SpaceX, um, Instacart, um, Impossible Foods, um, uh, the list goes on and on of companies.
- ▶ 37:22 Harry Stebbings You have the data to go look at Palantir, look at Spotify, look at SpaceX.
- ▶ 41:03 unnamed speaker Sell our SpaceX stock privately, you know, make a, make a big return.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:27 unnamed speaker The truth is, SpaceX, it's just 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:16 Harry Stebbings The question for me is, does this very positive response across the board with the IPOs that we've seen, not does it lead to the window opening more, I think we all agree it does, is does it lead to the window opening to Databricks, to…
- ▶ 1:03:44 Harry Stebbings Over a hundred million dollars in SpaceX, and probably another hundred million dollars in other Elon companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:52 unnamed speaker SpaceX, wow.
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
- ▶ 1:03:09 Matthew Pohlson And if you're Stripe or you're SpaceX, then, you know, you have access to liquidity in ways that are pretty similar to being public. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:05 Matthew Pohlson I said no to SpaceX early.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:20 Rory O'Driscoll And so you, you can never discount a rage quit, I suppose would be that, especially when you have the fun of SpaceX and XAI to go to. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:55 unnamed speaker So when you own a slug of SpaceX and you own a slug of X,
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:31:54 unnamed speaker Um, I would put half of my money in SpaceX. 3 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
- ▶ 20:30 Luke Harries We'd, like, see ourselves among, like, Palantir and OpenAI and SpaceX as we're, like,
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:12 Rory O'Driscoll There is the, the SpaceX, the Stripes.
- ▶ 31:55 Rory O'Driscoll Above sixty five billion in the next five or seven years, then the people who bought Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, OpenAI and Antropic are screwed.
- ▶ 35:30 Rory O'Driscoll Um, you know, you obviously shouldn't have sold any SpaceX ever, you know, you shouldn't have sold any blah, blah, blah. 2 times in the scene
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:08 Harry Stebbings I always fall back to no great entrepreneur was stopped by regulation though, which is like Travis wasn't stopped by regulation with Uber, uh, Elon with SpaceX wasn't stopped by regulation.
- ▶ 1:29:25 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, if you're the Collison's, if you're Ali at Databricks, if you're Elon at SpaceX, you don't need to go public today.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:33 Jason Lemkin And I think the next week he put a third of the fund into space X. 2 times in the scene
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:02 Immad Akhund Uh, yeah, it's like people from SpaceX and Blue Origin. 3 times in the scene
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:34 Rory O'Driscoll There's SpaceX,
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:11 Bucky Moore We're talking about going from talking about 30 to fifty billion dollar outcomes to multi-trillion dollar outcomes in the form of SpaceX or OpenAI or Anthropic.
- ▶ 2:32 Bucky Moore Multi-trillion dollar outcomes in the form of SpaceX or OpenAI or Anthropic, where Lightspeed is very proudly an investor.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:35 unnamed speaker The quick snide when the argument responds back would be SpaceX, but I would be intellectually honest enough to admit that would be a snide answer, right?
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:00 Taavet Hinrikus You know, the best example of all is maybe SpaceX today. 2 times in the scene
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:50 unnamed speaker holding periods of 1015 years, like they bought SpaceX, I think in oh seven, oh eight, so they have compounding after, and it turns out, if you compound at 30, 40% gross, not for eight years, but for 15 years, because you don't give a damn…
- ▶ 57:03 unnamed speaker Conversely, B to B, they are right, which is that very few companies in B to have the same level of untrammeled, competitive free space that something like SpaceX does. 3 times in the scene
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:40 Peter Singlehurst Um, those two companies, uh, that it sort of conjured were Tesla and SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:55 Harry Stebbings You compared it to SpaceX and Tesla. 4 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:47 Harry Stebbings You've got Stripe, you've got Databricks, you've got SpaceX, you've got Starlink, you've got all these companies, which, but they didn't need to go
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:55 Shervin Pishevar Um, you know, I, I've been lucky to have invested in SpaceX and, you know, become,
- ▶ 50:18 Shervin Pishevar And, um, what could have been, uh, what others, uh, that are in Tesla or SpaceX, for example, right now,
- ▶ 58:35 Shervin Pishevar That's when most of these great companies, whether it was SpaceX or Tesla or Facebook or Uber, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:30 Harry Stebbings How did you get into SpaceX?
- ▶ 1:14:32 Shervin Pishevar Um, so anyways, he, he's amassed a, you know, he helped bring SpaceX to, to Founders Fund. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:25 Harry Stebbings SpaceX is being a 10 trillion dollar company is quite a bold statement.
Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:50 Mike Maples SpaceX. 6 times in the scene
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:48 Daniel Dines I think, maybe, I don't know, it's crazy, maybe SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:54 Reid Hoffman Um, and that creates, you know, SpaceX, that creates Starlink, that creates, and so, huge amount of kudos and power.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:54 Klaus Hommels And even if we wanted to have our own constellation, would we have easy priority on the transport on SpaceX into low orbit? 2 times in the scene
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:18 Matt Grimm SpaceX had a similar thing. 3 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:52 Harry Stebbings It needs a Stripe, it needs a Starlink, it needs a SpaceX.
- ▶ 1:30:08 David Frankel You know, it puts, like, again, Elon, like, SpaceX and Tesla, just puts that in, like, insane, but this was, like, the moonshot of moonshots, and a lot of the time, like, you look at Frederic de Lesseps.
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:50 Harry Stebbings Talk to me about the time you ran 17 and a half miles to see your partners at SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:53 Shaun Maguire 2013 or so, he was saying that eventually SpaceX will launch Starlink and that it would be a huge deal.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:19 Delian Asparouhov I don't think that Elon Musk went around, you know, interviewing consumers about whether or not they wanted electric vehicles when he decided to go build Tesla, or, you know, asked NASA whether they want, you know, sort of cheaper and…
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:55 Kevin Hartz Like, you just boil funds down to the SpaceX fund, and the Facebook fund, and the,
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:18 Mark Roberge You almost have to like, like obviously like a company like SpaceX, there's no SMB play.
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:32 Val Scholz You know, it's like a SpaceX, Facebook, uh,
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:41 Reid Hoffman So I think I was one of the first couple people that, that Elon Musk pitched SpaceX to.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:40 Dan Siroker Before SpaceX, people looked at the Space Shuttle. 2 times in the scene
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:45 Mark Suster Falcon nine, the SpaceX rockets, which are now re-landable, so you don't need new materials, uh, to, you just need to refurbish it, has decreased the cost per kilogram 4 times in the scene