Peter Singlehurst

Everything Peter Singlehurst said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Opinion

Singlehurst: Bending Spoons achieved high profitability by avoiding overcapitalization

“I think that's an amazing example of this company that was largely bootstrapped Has created the most amazing scalable business model profitability like most companies would give an arm for. And they did it by sort of circumventing that, that world of over capi…”

Peter Singlehurst Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 13:31 Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Disclosure

Baillie Gifford is a shareholder in chip developer Tenstorrent

“We are shareholders in business, a company like Tens Torrents, which is working at the sort of the chip and the infrastructure layer.”

Peter Singlehurst Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 14:45 Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Disclosure

Singlehurst: Many 2024 Baillie Gifford Investments Were Already Profitable

“Last year, you know, quite a few of the companies we invested in, they were already profitable, or they were all turning profitable this year.”

Peter Singlehurst Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 30:23 Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Disclosure

Baillie Gifford reviewed 600 private rounds and made 11 investments last year

“So just as a team, we met a thousand companies. We looked at 600 private financing rounds. We did 65 first cuts of our diligence process. We did 30 deep dives, and we made 11 new investments.”

Peter Singlehurst Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 48:38 Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Disclosure

Baillie Gifford trims large private holdings to fund new growth investments

“So some of our large high profile companies that we have trimmed in the private markets and we've recycled that capital into new interesting high growth private companies.”

Peter Singlehurst Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 56:48 Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Disclosure

Singlehurst: Baillie Gifford evaluates deals via probability-tested upside scenarios

“We create scenarios in which we are deliberately contrived where a company can be a very high returning business and a high returning investment for our clients. We think about the probabilities or the things that would have to come to pass for that to be the …”

Peter Singlehurst Jul 15, 2022 ▶ 11:02 Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

20VC Assertion Supported

Singlehurst: Scottish Mortgage Fund is a century-old permanent pool

“We started, we set off doing that from within a permanent pool of capital that we've managed for the last 114 years. Called the Scottish mortgage funds, confusingly named. It's got nothing to do with mortgages. It's a hundred year plus permanent pool of capita…”

Peter Singlehurst Jul 15, 2022 ▶ 2:05 Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

The other half of the tape: Peter Singlehurst's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

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Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Peter's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Head of Private Companies, Baillie Gifford	2	79	100% 8/8	full record on 20VC →