20VC: Anthropic's $10BN Round | Klarna's IPO Broken Down | Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine | Martin Casado: Is Consensus Investing the Only Game | Why Satya is Chatting S*** on SaaS Apps Disappearing featuring Marc Benioff

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4.4 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

AGENDA:

00:00 – Marc Benioff vs Snowflake, Databricks & Palantir: Who Wins the Data Cloud War?

05:10 – Does Benioff Feel The Need to Buy AI Talent Like Zuck Is?

09:00 – What Salesforce has Learned From Palantir on Forward Deployed Engineers?

18:00 – Will SaaS apps disappear in an AI world? Why Satya is Chatting S***

23:40 – Are SDRs really screwed by AI… or just evolving?

26:10 – Benioff on Who Wins: OpenAI or Anthropic?

30:00 – Nat Friedman reports to Alex Wang: Genius move or career downgrade?

34:00 – Anthropic's $10B round: Have we hit peak AI hype?

47:00 – Klarna's wild ride: From $45B to $6B to IPO at $15B

55:00 – Inside a16z's seed machine: 72 bets vs Sequoia's 27

57:45 – Martìn Casado: Is consensus investing dangerous—or the only game?

01:05:00 – The big lesson: consensus, contrarian, and why investing is harder than ever

Transcript

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0:00.0	And even when you look at other data clouds, you know, like a snowflake or a data bricks or even a Palantir foundry, they're all in the three to four billion dollar revenue level. They're in my sights. So, you know, I'm on it. Saku is a game played by 22 people. In the end, the Germans win. In the same way, venture is a game played by 6,000 people, and in the end, Sequoia wins. They won here again. This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings. Now, it is my favorite show of the week. I am joined by Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll. Now, this show started out as three friends sitting down to discuss the latest and greatest tech news without the politics. We were
0:38.6	bored of hearing politics interspersed in tech news and we thought that we could provide some
0:43.4	interesting commentary and analysis alongside it. Since we've now been hitting millions of downloads
0:48.4	with every episode and today we're joined by one of the greatest founders of the last 20 years,
0:53.9	Mark Benny off from Salesforce.
0:55.9	Next week we have Cliff, the founder of Canver, and the week after that we have Jeff Lawson,
1:01.0	the founder of Twilio. This show is going from strength to strength. The show today is better than
1:05.5	ever, and I want your feedback. What can I do to make it better? Let me know, Harry at 20VC.com. But before we dive into the show
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