20VC: Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR | Block's 40% Headcount Reduction: AI or Overhiring
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
AGENDA:
04:13 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins
13:54 Was Sam Altman Wrong to Take the Deal
24:28 OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round: The Breakdown
28:22 Who Has a Bigger Valuation Premium: Sam Altman or Elon Musk
34:38 Why We Got the SaaS Apocalypse Wrong?
43:24 Why Salesforce Could be the Best Buy in Public Markets
47:46 Block Lays Off 40% of Team: AI or Overhiring
01:00:16 Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR… so not Dead?
01:18:15 How to Pick Winners in AI?
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| 0:00.0 | Whatever it is that's in the water at Anthropic, it's working and it has created unity. |
| 0:04.5 | The state is more powerful than Anthropic. |
| 0:06.5 | You've got to believe that the next round for this, Anthropic and SpaceX are all public offerings. |
| 0:12.2 | Tesla trades at a trillion today. |
| 0:13.9 | I think if Elon died tomorrow to trade at $200 billion. |
| 0:16.5 | Open AI trades at $800 billion today. |
| 0:18.9 | I think if Sam Altman died tomorrow morning, we traded 600 billion. |
| 0:21.6 | I think we got the Sasspocalypse all wrong. |
| 0:23.6 | Every single CEO I talked to doesn't think they need 40% of their team. |
| 0:28.6 | The lesson is never underestimate big markets and momentum. |
| 0:32.6 | The knife fight doesn't start until the TAM is like 60, 70% saturated. The prize for winning is to reinvent the |
| 0:40.0 | company from scratch and the product from scratch every six to nine months. Congratulations, it's a fun game. |
| 0:45.2 | This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings. Now, it is time for my favorite show of the week, |
| 0:49.3 | Roryo Driscoll, Jason Lemkin, analyzing the biggest news in tech this week. Anthropic goes to war with the |
| 0:56.0 | Pentagon. Do morals helped Ariel or do they hurt him? Open AI closes that 110 billion dollar round, |
| 1:03.0 | four times the size of the largest IPO ever. And then finally, Block lays off 40% of the workforce. |
| 1:09.4 | Jason Lamkin predicted it in real time. This is my favorite |
| 1:13.0 | show of the week. It's time to dig in. But before we dive into the show today, I run 20 VC fund and I get |
| 1:19.0 | this question from founders all the time. Harry, I can't find a good.com. Do you have a hookup? Let me tell |
| 1:24.8 | you now, the answer is always going to be no. I don't have a guy or gal for that. |
| 1:28.9 | I do have a recommendation though. |
| 1:30.5 | If you're building a tech startup, get a dot tech domain. |
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