20VC: The Venture Model is Broken | You Need to be Greedy and Selfish to Win Early Stage Investing | Why Margins Do Not Matter for Early-Stage Startups | The Growth Rate that is Required in a World of AI with Gili Raanan, Founder @ Cyberstarts
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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ποΈ 28 March 2026
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Summary
Gili Raanan is the Founder of Cyberstarts, one of the best performing venture funds of the last decade. He is famed for being the seed investor in Wiz, Islands and Cyera, leading to multiple 10x+ funds. He has the only remaining monopoly in venture; cyber security in Israel. If it is good, Gili sees it, it is that simple.Β
AGENDA:
00:00 β Does the Venture Business Even Work Anymore?
05:58 β The Insane Rise of $150M Seed Rounds!
08:58 β Will Mega Funds Ever Actually Return Venture Economics?
11:13 β How Do You Value Companies Growing at Impossible Speeds?
14:50 β The Truth About Growth: Why Most Companies Eventually Plateau
18:50 β Do Margins Still Matter in the Age of AI?
24:32 β How To Make Mega Money in the World of Secondaries
28:11 β What Are Core Misalignments Between GPs and LPs That No One Discusses?
37:57 β Quick Fire: Best Investment, Most Memorable Founder, Investing Icon
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| 0:00.0 | No, I don't think it's going to work. |
| 0:01.8 | I think it's going to end up with some serious catastrophe for many of the players. |
| 0:09.1 | The market is not balanced. |
| 0:10.7 | A lot of that cash that's flowing into the market would be wasted. |
| 0:14.3 | Venture is a game. |
| 0:15.5 | You know, we know very little when we get into investments. |
| 0:20.6 | We need to be selfish and we need to be greedy. Those are |
| 0:23.6 | good rates for an early stage investor. As an investor, you look at yourself and say, okay, I really |
| 0:29.7 | fucked up. I'm not in a business of babysitting founders. This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings, |
| 0:35.8 | and what a guest we have in the hot seat for you today. |
| 0:38.5 | Gilly Renan, founder of Cybersdots, and one of the most successful seed investors ever in his |
| 0:44.4 | 19 company portfolio of Fun One. Check this out. He invested in a decacorn, whiz, seven unicorns, |
| 0:51.9 | and he had three other companies acquired. That is an insane hit rate. Prior to |
| 0:57.0 | cybersostas, Gilly spent over 15 years as a general partner at Sequoia, where he invested in some |
| 1:02.3 | of the world's best cybersecurity companies. But before we dive into the show today, you know what's |
| 1:07.4 | wild? It's 2026 and so many product teams are still flying blind. |
| 1:12.1 | Buried in spreadsheets, chasing feedback across 10 different tools, trying to figure out what |
| 1:17.4 | actually will move the needle. I've spoken to with hundreds of product leaders and the best teams |
| 1:22.4 | all do one thing differently. They build a system to capture ideas, validate them with real data and focus their |
| 1:28.6 | roadmap on the right things. That's why product teams at Canvert, Deliveroo, Toast, DeCathlon, |
| 1:33.5 | use Gira product discovery. It pulls ideas and feedback into one place with built-in tools to |
| 1:38.8 | prioritize what will actually have the biggest impact. That's when a roadmap stops being an endless |
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