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The Twenty Minute VC interviews leading venture capitalists and company founders, hosted by Harry Stebbings.
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NVIDIA buys Poolside & backs Mercor; OpenAI IPO; Anthropic's $30T TAM
NVIDIA’s $6B Poolside licensing deal, $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation, and 109-engineer transfer show frontier-model capital intensity pushing capable startups toward strategic “failure” exits.OpenAI’s 2027 IPO appears compelled by Anthropic’s $60B mid-year run rate versus under $30B this year, while enterprises’ $200–400B AI-spending capacity remains the key test.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat
Anthropic’s security-review release erased about $20B from Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and other cyber names despite capabilities already months old, exposing how vulnerable perfection-priced software can be.Claude’s shrinking software surface, custom-agent requirements and Palantir’s differentiated position point toward value shifting to intelligence-led applications, while adoption speed, SaaS restructuring and OpenAI’s ambitious $665B spending plan remain key variables.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026
NVIDIA’s $20 billion Groq deal is strategic insurance against an inference-first market where predictable, low-latency performance could pressure its exceptional margins.Manus reached $100 million of ARR before Meta paid $2.5 billion, while Navan’s roughly 4x ARR public valuation highlights how optional and unattractive IPOs have become.