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

20VC's Big Fat Quiz of the Year: Founder, Fund and Breakout Company of 2025 | Predictions for 2026: The Company to Buy, The Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win 2026 and The Tailwinds NVIDIA Will Face

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

The Twenty Minute VC

Business, Investing, Tech News, News

4.4693 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

AGENDA:

03:48 Founder of the Year 2025

06:58 Product of the Year

10:05 Fund of the Year

20:52 Breakout Companies of 2025: Who Made the Biggest Impact?

26:57 Biggest Surprises of 2025

32:57 Predictions for 2026: Top Performing Tech Stocks of the Year

35:25 B2B Stocks to Watch

38:31 Why Salesforce Could Be the Buy of 2026

47:11 Google, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft: Buy One, Short One

55:38 IPO Speculations: Who Will Go Public in 2026

01:00:57 The Impact of AI on Employment

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think we see four IPOs backloaded next year.

0:03.1

SpaceX goes out first.

0:04.9

Canva comes out of nowhere second.

0:06.8

Databricks does it in the back half of the year because it's just time.

0:09.4

Anthropic does it at the end of the year.

0:11.0

Open AI probably should have gone first, but it's burning too much.

0:14.4

There's no ceiling on venture, which changes all the math and calculations.

0:19.0

You haven't missed the boat as investors.

0:21.4

Because what agents can do, we just started.

0:24.8

If unemployment ratches up even two or three points, regardless of the reason, could

0:28.7

just be the business cycle, you'll see a tech lash that makes what we're dealing with

0:32.7

now an understatement.

0:34.7

Society will be terrified of AI.

0:36.1

If the robots are going to take over society, I want to be sure that I own the robots.

0:41.3

This is 20VC, and the new show of the year for us has been our weekly show with Jason

0:46.8

Lemkin and Roryo Driscoll.

0:48.7

It's been incredible to see the response that it's got.

0:51.4

And for the final episode, we are doing a big, fat quiz of the year.

0:55.8

What does that mean? It means we are giving out awards to best fund of 2025, best founder of

1:01.7

2025, best product of 2025. And then we do a look forward and we make some predictions,

1:08.1

which public stock is the stock to buy, stock to sell, which companies will go

1:13.0

public in 2025, and so much more. This was great fun to do, and I always want your feedback,

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