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Harry Stebbings

Founder & Host, 20VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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Harry Stebbings is the founder of 20VC and host of the 20VC podcast. He is also a venture capital investor who conducts interviews and publishes content on technology startups.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 3 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Harry argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Stebbings: Endowment pullbacks will severely reduce new VC fund managers in 2025
“When I speak to a lot of endowments today, they're simply not adding new managers, and they're even trimming their existing, and so I think that's bluntly gonna really impact the amount of new managers that we see this year.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 12:34 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders

Everything Harry Stebbings said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: AI coding startup Lovable adds $2.5 million in ARR weekly
“They're growing, you know, 2.3 to 2.5 million ARR per week.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 8:44 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: Lovable maintains over 85% retention, beating ChatGPT
“Their retention is better than chat GPTs at over 85%.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 8:48 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders
Opinion
Stebbings: Peak PE buyouts like Anaplan and Coupa will struggle returning value
“I'm really looking at a lot of the PE board assets, your Anaplans, your Coopers of the world thinking, wow, you were bought at the height of the market. You don't have the founder as the CEO. You've lost product centricity. This is going to be a really tough s…”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 10:31 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders
Insight
Stebbings: Unprofitable $50M–$200M ARR SaaS growing in the teens are completely trapped
“Fifty million to two hundred million ARR SaaS businesses that are growing in the teens. And they're not profitable yet, or they're barely profitable. They are not acquisition targets for PE. Those are not good enough numbers. They're not good enough to IPO.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 10:57 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders
Prediction Held up
Stebbings: Endowment pullbacks will severely reduce new VC fund managers in 2025
“When I speak to a lot of endowments today, they're simply not adding new managers, and they're even trimming their existing, and so I think that's bluntly gonna really impact the amount of new managers that we see this year.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 12:34 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders
Opinion
Stebbings: The European tech ecosystem is fully united as a block
“I would say that Europe has solidified completely. There's definitely not this kind of isolationist element of like, oh, Spanish versus Italian versus whatever. And Jesus, even the English and the French are getting on these days. That goes to show just how mu…”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 7:07 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders
Opinion
Stebbings: Defense AI startup Helsing is the European equivalent of Anduril
“It's funny you said there about like the Andrew of Europe, it's Helsing. And my favorite thing is when you see defense funds and you're like, no, no, I don't quite know if defense is quite the category. It's more like Andrew and Helsing.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 5:26 Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders

The other half of the tape: Harry Stebbings's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 27 times in 9 episodes on TBPN. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most John Coogan 23Erik Torenberg 1

Statements about Harry Stebbings, by other people (3)

Opinion
Hays: Deploying a full $400M early-stage fund exclusively in Europe is concerning
“The reason that I'm bullish overall on, I'm not bullish on the European focus. . I mean, I guess that if he's gonna invest the whole, if he's gonna invest the full four hundred million in Europe, that's concerning.”
Jordi Hays Oct 24, 2024 ▶ 1:41:37 Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hays: Harry Stebbings will collect $80M in management fees on new fund
“He's pulling down eighty million of management fees on that fund.”
Jordi Hays Oct 24, 2024 ▶ 1:40:45 Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
Assertion Supported
Coogan: 20VC raises $400M fund for early-stage startups
“The British firm, firm, 20 VC pulls in four hundred million dollars to invest in early stage tech startups.”
John Coogan Oct 24, 2024 ▶ 1:40:00 Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)

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Appearances (1)

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Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders Mar 25, 2025 7m
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