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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 2025-09-18 · 84 min · 17,777 words

20VC: Opendoor's CEO on The Greatest Turnaround in Tech | OpenAI and Oracle: How Can Either Afford to Do This | How Anthropic Could Lose 50% of Their Revenue Overnight | Replit Raises at $3BN | Figure, Gemini & VIA IPOs Broken Down

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Open Door is priced in the public market for its potential. It's an incredibly fair price for the potential. Look, I think the bull case for open door is obscene. Just uh just obscene. Like it is hard to exaggerate how big this company can be. I'm no one's idea of a professional manager. We're going to create alpha. I think corporate executives should basically only get paid in options. We're gonna launch things that won't work, but we're gonna start fucking launching things. This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stebbings. It is my favorite show of the week, Jason Lamkin, Rory O'Driscoll, and we have the hottest CEO in town, Open Doors new CEO, Kaz, who just joined from Shopify. He joins For his first ever interview as CEO of Open Door, he did this show when he was just 24 hours into the seat. On top of that, we talk about OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft, their new deal with Oracle, we talk about the IPOs that happened last week, the busiest week of IPOs this year, and so much more.

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