Episodes featuring Rory O'Driscoll

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20VC with Harry Stebbings
Instinct Worth 30BN? | Microsoft Cuts 27,000 Jobs While Meta Taps Equity Markets for $95B CapEx
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Oct 29, 2026 · 17 products mentioned

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll break down Anthropic's S-1, Microsoft's mass buyout offer, Meta's equity raise, data risks in Chinese open models, and whether Instinct is worth $30 billion.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
The New VC Game | CoreWeave Sell-Off Creates Panic | Revenue Multiples Out of Control
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Oct 22, 2026 · 1 recommendation

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll debate whether venture is broken as money piles into a few AI names, plus CoreWeave's sell-off, Anthropic's numbers, inference growth and stretched revenue multiples.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Valar Atomics Sues Day One Ventures | Meta's Back to the AI Frontier | NVIDIA's $30B Reflection Deal
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Oct 15, 2026 · 3 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss a founder-investor lawsuit over pro-rata rights, Meta's AI comeback, and NVIDIA's rumored $30B open-source model deal.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Cognition vs Factory | Anthropic Under Threat | ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22B
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Oct 08, 2026 · 2 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss OpenAI's comeback, Anthropic's IPO pressure, ElevenLabs' $22B valuation, and how AI agents will reshape startup competition by 2027.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B | Meta Poaches MongoDB's CEO | Bessemer Raises $5.75B
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jack Altman, Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Oct 01, 2026 · 2 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, and Jack Altman break down AMD's $8.2B World Labs deal, Meta poaching MongoDB's CEO for $500M, and what big AI moves mean for venture strategy.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Meta's Muse Hits #1 | Menlo Sounds the AI Bubble Alarm | Keith Rabois vs Airwallex: Who is Right?
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Sep 24, 2026 · 4 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss Meta's AI app hitting number one, Anthropic's IPO delay, and how to tell defensible AI bets from risky infrastructure plays.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Instinct Raising $1B at $10B & Meta Launches Muse | Miro Sells for $1.36B After a $17.5B Valuation
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Sep 17, 2026 · 1 recommendation

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss Instinct's $10B raise, Meta's Muse agent platform, Miro's sale at a steep discount, and Mistral's European funding round.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Sep 10, 2026 · 4 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss Jensen Huang's AGI claim, new AI model releases, autonomous vehicles, and how founders and investors should think about speed and deal structures.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Sep 03, 2026 · 6 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss NVIDIA's earnings, AI agents reshaping B2B software, and what it takes for startups to survive in the current market.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Aug 27, 2026 · 26 products mentioned

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll break down AI infrastructure, frontier model competition, and why enterprise AI spending is becoming a capital budgeting problem.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Aug 20, 2026 · 3 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll break down a big week in AI deals, including Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition and Anthropic's first profit.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Aug 13, 2026 · 39 products mentioned

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss how AI is disrupting software companies like Canva, reshaping talent markets, and changing how founders think about equity and control.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Nikesh Arora, Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Aug 06, 2026 · 1 recommendation

Harry Stebbings, Nikesh Arora, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss the AI infrastructure race and why compute, energy, and land access matter more than model quality.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Travis Kalanick Raises $1.7B for Atoms | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Jul 30, 2026 · 29 products mentioned

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll break down a turbulent week in tech, covering Travis Kalanick's $1.7B raise, Google Cloud's growth, and AI regulation debates.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Frontier Labs Threatened by Kimi? Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models & Stripe Buys PayPal
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Jul 23, 2026 · 1 recommendation

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss Chinese AI models challenging Western labs, the Stripe-PayPal acquisition, and where the real money in AI is flowing.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Jul 09, 2026 · 3 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll discuss Sam Altman's equity offer to the US government, enterprise skepticism about AI ROI, and China's push to build its own frontier models.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Jul 02, 2026 · 25 products mentioned

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll dig into Coinbase cutting AI spend by 50%, the rise of SaaS roll-ups, and what Kalshi's $40B valuation signals about prediction markets.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Wall St's $725BN AI Question | The Rise of Open Source & How it Threatens OpenAI & Anthropic
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll · Jun 25, 2026 · 4 recommendations

Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll debate whether $725 billion in AI capex can ever be justified, and how open source models are squeezing closed-source AI companies.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Everett Randle, Rory O'Driscoll · Jun 18, 2026 · 31 products mentioned

Harry Stebbings, Rory O'Driscoll, and Everett Randle break down a big week in tech, covering SpaceX's IPO, a US government ban on an Anthropic AI model, and falling SaaS valuations.

20VC with Harry Stebbings
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR
20VC with Harry Stebbings · with Rory O'Driscoll · Jun 11, 2026 · 1 recommendation

Harry Stebbings and Rory O'Driscoll break down the SpaceX IPO, OpenAI going public, and how AI is reshaping startup efficiency and software valuations.