20VC: Databricks at $100BN | Chamath's SPAC Revival: Peak Mania? | OpenAI Staff Cash Out Billions & Sam Altman Will Spend Trillions | CoreWeave's $11B Debt Bet & Nubank's $2.5B Profit Shocker
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
The Twenty Minute VC
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Agenda:
00:00 – Databricks hits $100B: Bubble or just the beginning?
03:15 – Is Databricks actually undervalued at 25x revenue?
07:40 – Are we on the verge of the biggest IPO wave ever?
11:30 – Can Andreessen's Databricks bet return $30B+?
18:10 – Who really gets rich when mega-unicorns IPO?
19:30 – Is the return of Chamath's SPACs the ultimate bubble signal?
28:00 – Should OpenAI staff be cashing out billions in secondaries?
33:30 – Founder raises $130M… then walks away. Is this the new normal?
36:30 – Nubank's $2.5B profit: The best FinTech in the world?
48:00 – On Running at $15B: Can consumer brands still be VC-backed rockets?
52:00 – CoreWeave takes on $11B in debt: smart bet or ticking time bomb?
1:11:00 – Will AI spend really hit trillions—or is it all hype?
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things I'm learning, especially on this podcast, is to not to try and fill the need to have an opinion just to fill the space. |
| 0:07.9 | That's why we have Jason. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back to 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings, brought to you from Greece. |
| 0:12.7 | Now, this episode is a cracker with Jason Lampkin, Roryo Driscoll. |
| 0:16.1 | We discuss Corweave, New Bank, Databr bricks hitting $100 billion and much more. |
| 0:21.6 | This is my favourite show to do, but I want to make it better. |
| 0:24.4 | So let me know what we can do to improve these shows, Harry at 20BC.com. |
| 0:28.9 | And then next week we've got the one and only OG of SaaS, Mark Benioff, joining us for a very special episode. |
| 0:35.0 | So stay tuned for that one. |
| 0:36.3 | But before we dive into the show today, |
| 0:38.6 | let's talk about agents, specifically Piper, the AISDR agent brought to you by Qualified. |
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| 1:36.7 | You want to grow your company, right? But instead of having the time to get to the next level, |
| 1:40.4 | you're stuck maintaining the status quo. It's freaking maddening. Well, HubSpot's customer platform, |
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