Stablecoin proliferation is shifting toward corporate treasury, as banks and multinationals may issue white-label coins to capture float.CLARITY’s 49–50 failure hit Coinbase roughly 10% and Circle 12%, while the SEC’s five-year exemption may accelerate tokenized-securities innovation but remains reversible.Arc’s more than 190 partners showed Circle’s reach, but its memecoin-heavy debut obscured a payments strategy designed to offset lower rates.

Luca Ferrari × Molly O'Shea

Bending Spoons’ edge is an integrated operating model that standalone owners cannot economically reproduce.Its 50-plus proprietary technologies, nearly 1,000-person core team, and debt-funded permanent ownership support claimed annual savings above $100 million and $4 million revenue per core Spooner.Airtable’s approximately $1.3 billion enterprise value reflects the underwriting test, while AI startup valuations and unmeasured AI capabilities remain key risks to monitor.

Harry Stebbings

Instinct’s $1B raise at a $10B valuation pairs minute-long latency with compute costs: 10M users paying $10 monthly imply a $1.2B annual burden.Jason’s reversal—from recommending the round to refusing it—alongside Miro’s $1.3B sale from $17.5B and Canva’s slowdown from 30% to 20%, highlights SaaS’s shift from revenue multiples to EBITDA.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy × Michael Moritz

The structural edge that enabled Moritz’s venture career—pre-internet imperfect information, close founder relationships, and few competitors—dissipated “maybe 15, 16 years ago,” leaving today’s ecosystem healthy “if you’re a founder.”His Sequoia discipline tied compensation to performance, while he sees AI creating more jobs than it loses and tool-armed founders expanding what small companies can accomplish, with disruption across particular sectors still certain.

卫诗婕 × 郑俊聪

祥峰中国四年不投DeepSeek、智谱、Kimi等大模型，转向AI for science与物理AI，新基金至少50%投具身智能。宇树以成本降一个梯级打开应用场景，量产一致性成为壁垒；中国供应链按周迭代与香港、内地上市，重塑Long China的创新与退出逻辑。

李翔 × 王华东

具身智能正经历中国投资史上前所未有的高估值融资潮，但王华东认为“贵不是问题”，关键在于能否交付有价值、产生毛利的产品。宇树在2021年B轮投前估值约7亿元时，已按出货量位居四足机器人全球第一；行业仍须警惕以更贵、更不可控的方案重做Rule-based已解决的问题，并观察Room-based落地与迭代能否兑现商业化。

Yan Liberman

Yan sees Bitcoin reaching the high $90,000s before materially easier liquidity, with only 10–15 investable tokens.His six-token book favors uncrowded productive assets: Grass has roughly $70 million expected revenue and $40 million indicated operating profit against about $330 million FDV.Grass’s October unlocks and AERO’s second-half-of-September expansion are catalysts, but demand, emissions and cross-asset opportunity cost remain unresolved.

Molly O'Shea × Luca Ferrari × Francesco Patarnello × Matteo Danieli × Valentina Jerusalmi

Bending Spoons wins deals by paying the highest price, with post-integration platform, technology, and talent value supporting high returns for shareholders.Its vertical-agnostic filter prioritizes platform unlock, sufficient scale, and predictability, favoring 5–10 larger deals over transforming $20 million-revenue businesses.With an M&A pipeline that has never been so rich, AOL’s months-long Yahoo carve-out and re-platforming remain a key execution watchpoint.

Harry Stebbings × David Morehead

David Morehead argues that fund multiples need a timeline: three six-year 3X growth-equity funds can compound to 27X versus 15X over 15–18 years.Baylor treats growth equity as its return engine, VC as diversification, and uses 10% market-decline increments while pricing cash at 8.5%.Software’s 50–60% selloff and permitted powered land offer differentiated opportunities, but permitting constraints and the unresolved AI adoption question remain key watchpoints.

David Senra × Luca Ferrari

Bending Spoons is a buy-to-hold-forever operator, producing $3B in run-rate revenue at 54–55% adjusted operating income margins through acquisitions and deep integration.Evernote's headcount fell from 350 to about 20, while revenue now exceeds $100M and product velocity is at least three times faster, demonstrating the operating model's leverage.Diagram and Alt Spooner point to further productivity gains, while fewer, larger deals and the unresolved IPO timeline remain important execution signals to monitor.