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Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings And many others, Thrive and Andreessen, most importantly, netting huge returns. 2 times in the scene
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 27:37 David Frankel You've got to be in the right vintage, but if you look at, like, Thrive or A-Six-Teen Z, they've had some
- ▶ 38:22 David Frankel Doesn't mean that A-sixting Z and Thrive haven't xed a few of their funds really, really nicely.
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 42:07 Harry Stebbings Um, but, uh, my question there actually is, you know, I know Josh and Thrive very well, dear friend, and he's always said to me that, you know, people have a lot more plasticity investing across the stage than one thinks.
- ▶ 1:00:36 Matt Murphy Lightspeed, uh, you know, Thrive, you know, folks like that, that we, you know, you know, partner with a lot and even Sequoia and Andreessen.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:13:32 Harry Stebbings I'm also fully cognizant that venture is a crap asset class for the majority, and actually Thrive and many other very large funds will have much better numbers than the majority of early funds.
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:59 Rory O'Driscoll So, you know, the Altimeters, the Thrives, the Andreessen late-stage part of the business, all those guys have replaced what would have been public companies, right?
- ▶ 1:09:30 Harry Stebbings Thrive in Chai. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:53 Harry Stebbings You can be Andreessen, you can be Lightspeed, you can be GC, you can be Thrive, where you are building a multi, multi-billion dollar platform, or you can be a Maritech, a Greylock, a Menlo, where you are maybe not building that platform to…
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:50 Harry Stebbings I mean, you look like a Thrive.
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:10 Harry Stebbings They'll deliver billions and billions of dollars back in the wake of Thrive and GC and Lightspeed.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:46 Harry Stebbings Over just building it yourself and being a thrive.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:40 unnamed speaker And then there's late, where it's, you know, Thrive puts three billion in company A, two billion in company B. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:44 Harry Stebbings There's Thrive, there's Chamath's numbers, there's Gary Tan on bullshit ARR, there's SBF, the greatest ambassador of our generation.
- ▶ 1:10:51 Harry Stebbings On the slightly other end of this banished spectrum, Thrive Eternal. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:06 unnamed speaker So that was the Sequoia comment that Harry was referencing, but I think the Thrive product is actually very different. 2 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:08 Rory O'Driscoll If you're in, I mean, I looked at, if you're in at the B, which is where the A was Andreessen and Thrive, the B Thrive led, the C, I can't remember who led, but basically the C is roughly a five X, the B is a 20 X. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:26 Rory O'Driscoll Uh, Andreessen and Thrive did the A, then Thrive led the B, and doubled down the whole way through. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:50 Rory O'Driscoll But if you're sitting there with two billion dollars to invest, it doesn't matter what you do with NIO, and Thrive has proven they can take two billion and turn it into six billion, and you're like, give me that net to the limit, and like,… 4 times in the scene
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:44 Miles Clements How can you not acknowledge how successful Josh has been at Thrive? 3 times in the scene
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:07 Harry Stebbings Saying you have to be a certain size in terms of Publix, if you apply that to funds, we see fifteen billion dollar Andreessen, ten billion dollar Thrive.
- ▶ 1:03:48 Mitchell Green Which again, could benefit, like, an Anthrop, like a Thrive or a Andreessen who are raising these new giant funds.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:31 Jason Lemkin I'm going to do the Andreessen version, the Thrive version, and, and Figma may make it, because I'm looking, what are, what are the stocks that are actually up?
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:08 Harry Stebbings I think Josh, who's a dear friend at Thrive, has proved that actually that's not the case, but other people still very much hold that true.
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Thrive closes on a mega ten billion dollar fund.
- ▶ 2:01 Jason Lemkin You know, it's the same day Thrive or the same week Thrive raises ten billion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:54 Harry Stebbings Workday and the CEO transition there and then thrive in the ten billion dollars.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:08 Harry Stebbings Um, Open Evidence raises at twelve billion dollars, labbed by Thriving DST.
- ▶ 43:48 Jason Lemkin I'm, I'm actually going to suggest that Thrive is very smart.
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:37 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, I think Thrive have proven that. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:40 unnamed speaker I mean, the first venture round at OpenAI was twenty-three billion pre with Thrive, and the first venture round at Entropic was four billion pre with Spark and Menlo, you know, right?
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:01 Jason Lemkin It's thrive on steroids. 2 times in the scene
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:52 Harry Stebbings Speaking of discipline to stage, though, the growth fund of the year for me, we can't not, is Josh and Thrive.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings And so we're gonna start with Thrive Partnering with OpenAI. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings This is open AI investing in Thrive Holdings.
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
- ▶ 30:50 Max Altman When you go do your Series A, we will be the conduit, because I agree with you, they need to have a Thrive or a Sequoia or a Kleiner brand at some point to succeed.
- ▶ 47:36 Max Altman So I'm like, well, then our job as a new fund is to make sure we get them the best brand, whether it's the Thrive or Sequoia or Kleiner, to lead their A.
- ▶ 1:00:59 Max Altman I want to have something where 10 or 15 years from now we are maybe a quiet luxury brand, a la like a Thrive or a USV, where everyone's like, hey, they are the premier early stage brand
- ▶ 1:13:13 Max Altman Or, or more, and like, absolutely, I think people are like, how is Thrive going to deploy all this money?
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:51 Harry Stebbings Andreessen, Thrive, Koto, DST, Excel, all the big players all involved.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:59 Harry Stebbings To me, I think it's like a specialization in leadership that's kind of correlated to actually the winners and losers in venture in the next 10 years, and I think the winners are Walmart, which is your mega platforms, it's your Thrive, it's…
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:06 Everett Randle And obviously a lot of these firms are running different strategies, you know, Thrive and Founders Fund doing extremely concentrated investments in really high quality companies. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:33 unnamed speaker When the other investors, I think Thrive is in this too, when they committed
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:23 Harry Stebbings If you're at a Thrive or you're at a GC or you're at a Lightspeed. 2 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:41 Rory O'Driscoll Just because, you know, pick a name, Thrive do that well would be, in my view, stupid because Thrive are really good at that, and they're not. 2 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:41 unnamed speaker Investors, including Thrive, held, bought some more.
20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Now, the company has raised over six hundred million dollars from some of the best, including Sequoia, Thrive, Salesforce, and more, and Gong has surpassed
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:20 Harry Stebbings I will never forget having Vince on from Thrive when he led the thirty billion dollar round.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:12 Harry Stebbings Cause if you can move a billion dollars into open AI at 30, like Josh and Thrive did, I'm not sure what their ingoing check was.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:06 Harry Stebbings Well, the interesting thing is when you look at, Bundly, the best performing managers, or the breakout managers the last few years, I think you put probably Thrive, Green Oaks, Founders Fund, and Eli Gill definitely up there.
- ▶ 25:12 unnamed speaker I think the names you cited, those excellent investors, the greenovers that thrive. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:10 Harry Stebbings 1000%, let's stick with triple, triple, double, double, because we have a much higher certainty of winning there, versus going for the AI halo moonshots, competing against Thrive and Founders and Andreessen, where the scale enterprise…
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:49 Harry Stebbings Dude, that, that is the most Thrive Capital benchmark style website I've ever seen.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:25 Harry Stebbings I think Thrive is the one who's able to cross growth and early stage incredibly well, but I totally agree with you.
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:36 Rory O'Driscoll Thrive invested in Instagram, and like, literally four or five days later, it sold for a two X, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 Harry Stebbings But fundamentally, we see the shift from public markets and IPOs to private markets with mega funds like Lightspeed, GC, Thrive, you name it.
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:19 Harry Stebbings I had Vince from thrive on the show about a year, 15 months ago when they led the thirty billion valuation round. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:10 Bucky Moore And you can see that's sort of what Thrive is doing with OpenAI.
- ▶ 12:19 Harry Stebbings But he's basically very smart in saying to me, hey, we've seen this fundamental transition of, like, capital supply from your, uh, very, very large Franklin Templeton's, you name it, to Thrive and to Lightspeed.
- ▶ 34:53 Harry Stebbings I mean, part of me as a friend would say to you, just wait until the C, pay up like Vince did at Thrive for the, you know, thirty billion round, and ride it, baby.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker The Thrive strategy was brilliant.
- ▶ 32:58 Jason Lemkin Thrive. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:02 unnamed speaker Now I have to give my money to Thrive and get Stripe at two and 20.
Carvana CEO & Co-Founder, Ernest Garcia: Building a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:21 Harry Stebbings Playing the contrarian side, though, there are very, very private investors that we both know, Neil Major at Green Oats, as we said, Vince and Josh at Thrive, who would provide that similar pressure dynamic in a board environment, more…
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:03 Mitchell Green Thrive was an early investor.
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:38 Zachary Bookman Thrive as well, you know, been in for the, for the long haul.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:29 Harry Stebbings And then growth, I'd do Thrive.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:28 Harry Stebbings Kush and Thrive think that bluntly everyone has the plasticity to move between stages or in their firm.
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:10 Alexis Ohanian And you can look at, you know, some of the, some of my favorite investments that I've seen folks at like Thrive or Founders Fund do have been a little batshit when you looked at them at early stage.
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:29 Harry Stebbings and I think it was Miles Grimshaw at Benchmark or now Thrive said actually co-pilots is an incumbent strategy.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:57 Harry Stebbings I look at Thrives and Sequoias and DSTs.
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:32 Harry Stebbings I would say benchmark for the A, and I would say either Thrive or Sequoia for growth.
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:51 Harry Stebbings Yes, but you also backed the first funds of Thrive, of Andreessen, of Founders Fund, from what I know.
- ▶ 24:19 Peter Lacaillade Um, but Andreessen Horowitz, Green Oaks, um, Thrive, they've all proactively marked down their, their companies.
- ▶ 29:15 Harry Stebbings Do you not just accept, though, that given your incredible selection on emerging managers, which you have with Thrive, with Founders Fund, with Andreessen, the best generally. 3 times in the scene
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:17 Miles Grimshaw Talked about is because you have a silicon roundabout, and there's an idea that could you build companies elsewhere, and I was on the East Coast and spending a lot of time in New York, and, um, I got to meet Josh and, and this guy, Will…
- ▶ 3:57 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, you can call yourself the night before your first day joining Thrive with Josh there, and give yourself a piece of advice.
- ▶ 8:01 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Vince Hanks before the show, and when I had him on to discuss actually his investment in OpenAI, he said that was the single biggest thing that he's been taught by being at Thrive. 3 times in the scene
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:06 Chris Paik I, at Thrive Capital at the time, it was a ten million dollar fund.
- ▶ 4:33 Harry Stebbings Um, why did you decide to leave Thrive to found Pace? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:24 Harry Stebbings It was one of your great investments.
- ▶ 1:23:17 Harry Stebbings I mean this with total respect, but like, you know, you're a young girl manager, and yes, you spun out of Thrive, which is blue chip or blue chip, but like, how was LP response to you?
- ▶ 1:45:48 Harry Stebbings Hit me, my friend, other than Thrive, because that's obviously family for you.
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings So how did you make your way to Thrive and become a partner at Thrive where you are today?
- ▶ 2:02 Vince Hankes The folks at Thrive, Josh and Miles, had led around to the company, and, you know, what I've learned from Thrive is always be recruiting. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:18 Harry Stebbings I think Thrive's recruitment machine is just incredible. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:11 Vince Hankes I mean, in some ways, if you're trying to, we talk about this as a team from our culture, a lot of when you join the Thrive team, you know, the focus is how do you build trust with the organization? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Vince Hankes And so, you know, I think for us and really Thrive in general, we try to get into the psyche of why are people so excited and less about chasing the next deal and more about what's the core value to the customer?
- ▶ 14:11 Harry Stebbings I do want to kind of focus specifically on open AI, obviously, you know, thrive, uh, kind of very prominent in the latest round.
- ▶ 37:14 Vince Hankes And so the balance we try to hold, I think that's what makes Thrive a really special firm.
- ▶ 39:50 Vince Hankes I give credit to the rest of the Thrive team.
- ▶ 40:56 Harry Stebbings Help me understand specifically with thrive about the structure that enables you to make a decision that others maybe couldn't. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:33 Vince Hankes You know, I, I mean, I think at Thrive we don't really focus on the win.
- ▶ 51:24 Harry Stebbings Vince, you can invest in one multi-stage firm other than Thrive. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:58 Vince Hankes But I think, you know, we have a lot of ambition at Thrive as a firm, and I hope to be a big part of us building it and ultimately going and backing some of the next
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 3:59 Harry Stebbings And Stitch have raised over a hundred million dollars from the likes of Cotu, Thrive, Benchmark, and Index.
- ▶ 53:30 Harry Stebbings And Stitch have raised over a hundred million dollars from the likes of Cotu, Thrive, Benchmark, and Index.
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:20 Semil Shah There's probably one starting now that that'll have a rise like that now thrive started in the last decade, you know?
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:24 Harry Stebbings If I want to go and be the next Andreessen or Thrive,
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