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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Cursor Raises $2.3BN: Who Wins the Coding War | Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: Analysed | Why Venture Capital Will Hit $1TRN and the Opening of Retail | Why Stripe and the Best Companies Will Never Go Public

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

The Twenty Minute VC

Business, Investing, Tech News, News

4.4693 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

AGENDA:

04:47 Cursor Raises $2.3BN at $29BN Valuation

11:36 What Gemini 3 Means for Lovable, Cursor and Replit

30:54 Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: The Bubble Bursting?

48:54 Oracle Credit Default Swaps: The Risk is Increasing

01:07:22 Stripe Does Tender at All-Time High: Why the Best Companies Will Never IPO

01:19:18 Why Retail WIll Cause a Surge of Capital into VC Funds

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Entry price comes when Tam is unclear. Winning is the only thing that comes when Tam is huge.

0:05.2

If you're not seeing massive Tam expansion, there's just no point in even playing as VCs.

0:09.6

The late stage business is either the best business in the world or the worst business in the world,

0:15.1

and there's nothing you can do to determine which it is. Coding is no longer on this extremely steep improvement path.

0:23.6

As the models improve in performance dramatically, people switch.

0:27.8

To say that would be ugly would be an understatement.

0:30.6

It would be terrifying.

0:32.8

I mean, beyond terrifying.

0:34.1

I think we're at a point where if there's some wobble,

0:37.0

the magnitude of the correction

0:39.4

will be fast and brutal.

0:42.3

But before we dive into the show today, you've heard me mention Guardio before.

0:46.3

They protect millions of people from fishing, scams and online threats, but now something

0:50.9

genuinely exciting has happened.

0:53.0

Lovable, one of the fastest growing AI platforms, just integrated Guardio directly into their

0:58.0

Gen AI chain.

0:59.0

What that means? Every single site built with Loveable now gets scanned in real time.

1:05.0

Fishing pages, impersonation sites, scam redirects are blocked before they ever go live. And that's a huge shift. It's rare to

1:13.0

see companies take responsibility for the safety of the broader internet. Lovable did and

1:17.8

Gardeo is the engine making that possible. Gardeo also leverages advanced AI threat detection

1:23.2

to block highly targeted socially engineered scams before they ever reach you.

1:28.3

From phishing emails and fake login pages to financial fraud, Guardio protects you across the

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