Marc Andreessen is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. The firm now manages over $90BN and has invested in the likes of OpenAI, Airbnb, Coinbase, Anduril and many more. Marc is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies. Marc co-created the Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape (sold to AOL for $4.2 billion). He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion.
AGENDA:
05:00 — Why Introspection is Overrated: The Dangers of Learning from the Past
08:00 — The One Trait Marc Andreessen Looks For in Every Founder
14:30 — Are the Best Founders Broken? What Makes the Best Founders?
16:00 — “Extreme Ownership”: Why Everything Being Your Fault Changes Everything
19:00 — “Do You Read the Comments?” Fame, Criticism & How to Deal with Haters
26:00 — Is Venture Now Go Big or Go Home? The Real Future of VC
30:00 — Does Price Matter Anymore? The Dangerous Truth About Valuations
33:00 — “Stop Chasing Diamonds in the Rough”: Why Most VCs Get This Completely Wrong
36:00 — Do You Actually Need to Like Founders? The Uncomfortable Answer
40:00 — Are Companies 75% Overstaffed? The Most Controversial Take on Hiring
45:00 — When Will a16z Go Public?
50:00 — Why Labour Displacement Theory Around AI is Totally Wrong
55:00 — Why Silicon Valley Is More Dominant Than Ever?
01:00:00 — Why a16z Invested $300M into Adam Neumann
01:05:00 — What Still Drives Marc Andreesen?
01:10:00 — What is the Biggest Mistakes VCs Still Make Today?
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.
AGENDA:
00:00 — Does the Venture Business Even Work Anymore?
05:58 — The Insane Rise of $150M Seed Rounds!
08:58 — Will Mega Funds Ever Actually Return Venture Economics?
11:13 — How Do You Value Companies Growing at Impossible Speeds?
14:50 — The Truth About Growth: Why Most Companies Eventually Plateau
18:50 — Do Margins Still Matter in the Age of AI?
24:32 — How To Make Mega Money in the World of Secondaries
28:11 — What Are Core Misalignments Between GPs and LPs That No One Discusses?
37:57 — Quick Fire: Best Investment, Most Memorable Founder, Investing Icon
AGENDA:
05:00 — Anthropic vs. OpenAI: Who Is Actually Winning the Enterprise War?
07:55 — "Air of Desperation": Is OpenAI Losing Its Invincibility?
18:00 — SpaceX at $2 Trillion: Elon’s Insane Plan to Build Data Centers in Space
29:00 — Jeff Bezos’ $100 Billion Fund: The End of "Doing It the Hard Way"
34:00 — The $20 Billion "Acqui-hire": The Groq Deal Broken Down
40:40 — Figma’s Death Spiral? Why the Markets Are Terrified of AI Disruption
56:00 — The Broken VC Math: Why You Need $1BN To Do Series A
01:04:00 — Win or Die: The Terrifying Reality of the Unicorn "Dead Zone"
Matthew Steckman is the President and Chief Business Officer of Anduril. Matt played a central role in securing the $20BN contract Anduril just won with the US military. Prior to Anduril, Matt served as Chief Revenue Officer for Zipline. Before Zipline, Matt held several leadership positions at Palantir.
AGENDA:
3:45 — Anduril’s $20BN Army Contract Broken Down
6:30 — What Do Most Defense Founders Get Completely Wrong?
9:15 — Can You Build a Billion-Dollar Defense Company Without the US?
12:05 — Why Government Contracts Are Brutal (And Why Most Fail)
15:40 — How Does Anduril Predict Wars 5–10 Years Before They Happen?
18:20 — Why Cyber Warfare Is the Most Dangerous Battlefield No One Understands
23:50 — Why There Will Only Be ONE Winning Drone Company
28:10 — How Anduril Decides Where to Deploy $100M+ Product Bets
35:20 — What Would Anduril Buy If They Had an Unlimited Checkbook?
41:10 — Why Anduril Must Go Public
45:00 — Quickfire: The Future of War, VC Mistakes & Career Advice
Shaunt Voskanian is the CRO @ Figma, where he has scaled the sales machine to over $1BN in ARR and over 400 people. Prior to Figma, Shaunt was Senior VP of Global Sales at Datadog where he scaled the revenue org to $1BN in ARR.
AGENDA:
04:33 - Are Great Sales Leaders Born or Trained?
06:55 - In a world of PLG, is sales less important than ever?
11:51 - Why does Shaunt not believe in traditional customer success teams?
14:31 - Does the role of the SDR survive in two years' time?
19:19 - When is the right time for sales to intercept in a PLG motion?
21:43 - How to Set Sales Quotas in a PLG AI Sales World?
31:19 - How has what you look for in sales hires changed over time?
42:54 - How do you judge sales performance if not on quota?
54:49 - Quick fire: Outdated sales tactic, What Role Dies, Best Sales AI Tool
AGENDA:
04:02 NVIDIA’s GTC: What You Need to Know
11:39 Meta’s 20% Layoffs & Atlassian Lets Go of 1,600
21:42 How to Test AI Fluency in Employees
30:59 Anduril Lands $20BN Army Contract
46:46 Travis Kalanick Returns With Atoms
49:55 If Travis Kalanick Ran Uber Today, Would it be $1TRN Company?
56:03 When is it Right to Replace Founders
01:04:24 Adobe CEO Exit Shock
Gokul Rajaram is one of the greatest operators turned investors of the last 2 decades. He is trusted as the go to advisor for the greatest founders in the world. Today he serves as a Board Director at three public companies: Coinbase, Pinterest and The Trade Desk. Prior to Marathon (his firm), Gokul served on the executive team at DoorDash and Block. Before Block, he served as Product Director of Ads at Facebook. Earlier in his career, Gokul served as a Product Management Director for Google AdSense. Gokul is also a prolific angel investor, having invested in 700+ companies, including Airtable, Figma, Groq, Runway, Supabase, and Vercel.
AGENDA:
03:53 — Investing Lessons from Google, Doordash and Facebook
05:32 — Why Mark Zuckerberg is the Greatest Distribution Genius Alive
07:23 — Why Every Company Today Needs to be Multi-Product
09:16 — Negative Gross Margins: Are the Best Companies Actually Built on "Shit" Economics?
10:50 — The SaaS Apocalypse: Is the Entire Sector Going to Zero?
12:15 — The 8 Moats of Enduring Software Companies: How to Analyse Companies
14:50 — Why Brand is No Longer a Strong Moat (And What Replaced It)
16:13 — Salesforce vs. Atlassian: Which Systems of Record are Dying?
18:13 — Outcome-Based Pricing: Is This the Total Death of Seat Pricing?
20:16 — The Bolt-On AI Trap: Why Rebuilding Your Entire UX is Non-Negotiable
23:44 — Are the Outcome Sizes of Vertical SaaS Large Enough for VC Today?
28:16 — The Zombie Cohort: What Happens to Private Companies with High Valuations?
32:44 — Is "King Making" Complete Bullshit?
34:21 — Durability Over Margins: What Really Matters in a 100x Growth World
35:36 — The Non-Consumption Miracle: Why Granola and Gamma are Crushing It
38:50 — The PayPal Rule: Can You Raise Prices 5 Times in 3 Years?
42:47 — My Biggest Miss: How I Misread the Shopify Billion-Dollar Mark
45:18 — The Courage to Bet: Why Instacart is the Best VC Deal Ever
46:33 — Seed vs. Growth Pricing: When Does Price Actually Destroy Returns?
50:53 — Does "Proprietary Founder Access" Even Exist?
54:33 — Double Down or Diversify? The Truth About Fund Reserves
59:44 — The Vanta Anti-Portfolio: A Mistake I'll Never Forget
01:01:21 — When to Sell: The "Sell a Third, Hold a Third, Trade a Third" Rule
01:04:12 — Why Remote Early-Stage Companies are Dying
01:07:33 — Why Mid-Level Partners are Fleeing Mega Funds
01:09:47 — The Best CEO Superpowers: Larry, Mark, Jack, and Tony
01:12:33 — The Next 10 Years: Why Dropouts are "AI Maxing" the World
Elena Verna is the Head of Growth at Lovable, one of the fastest growing companies in the world having hit $400M in ARR in just 18 months. Prior to Lovable, Elena was Head of Growth at both Dropbox and Miro.
AGENDA:
00:00 – Why “Growth Is Now a Trust Problem” (Not a Marketing Problem)
06:10 – Is SEO Dying Because of AI Search?
07:00 – Did Lovable’s Growth Come From the Founder’s Personal Brand?
08:30 – Why Every Founder Should Push Employees to Be Marketers?
13:10 – Why Every Employee at Lovable Ships Code (Even Marketing)
21:20 – Why Paid Marketing in Year One Is a “Death Trap”
31:50 – Why Annual Subscriptions Are the Wrong Monetization Model for AI
37:00 – If Elena Had an Unlimited Marketing Budget, What Would She Do?
48:00 – How Lovable Does Product Launches
AGENDA:
00:00 - ANTHROPIC VS. THE PENTAGON: The Billion Dollar Supply Chain War
07:11 - B2B PANIC: Why Leading Companies Are Losing Deals to OpenAI
12:19 - THE ANTHROPIC ENDGAME: Will Claude Eclipse ChatGPT?
17:39 - THE DATA CENTER ARMS RACE: Is the AI Hype Cycle Finally Dead?
24:43 - 24/7 PERSISTENT AI: Why You'll Soon Need Data Centers in Space
30:37 - THE DEATH OF THE JUNIOR: Why Entry-Level Jobs are Vanishing
41:55 - AGENT-LED GROWTH: The Secret Reason Startups are Exploding in 2026
46:58 - THE ERA OF GENTLE DECELERATION IS DEAD: Public Markets Turn Brutal
55:54 - FIGMA MAKE IS TERRIBLE? The Failure of Quarterly Software Releases
01:00:54 - THE ULTIMATE STOCK PICKS: What to Buy and Sell Right Now
Miles Clements is a Partner @ Accel where he helps to lead their growth fund. At Accel, Miles has led or invested in Atlassian, Cursor, Linear, and more.
AGENDA:
03:38 Where is True Alpha and Value in a World of AI
05:10 Why it is Total BS that Cursor is Dead
07:55 Why Cursor Were Not Wrong to Build Their Own Models
09:38 What is the Upside When Investing in Cursor at $27BN?
15:12 Do Sub $10BN Outcomes Even Matter to a Fund the Size of Accel?
17:07 Losing ServiceTitan: Investing Lesson Learned…
19:55 Missing Rippling: What We Learned
27:20 What is Accel’s Win Rate
30:22 How VCs Approach Ownership Has Changed
35:09 Does Miles Feel Happier or Sadder to be an Anthropic Investor Post Pentagon Debacle
36:45 What Happens to Companies Like Miro and Snyk with High Prices to Live Upto?
38:05 Why it is a Great Time to Be Thoma Bravo and Vista
38:36 Why Founder-Led Companies Are Always Better
41:12 Why Would Any Founder Go Public Today
43:48 When is the Right Time to Take Chips Off The Table?
45:24 Should VC Firms Have Evergreen Funds and Be Responsible for Public Positions
50:28 You Can Pick Any VC to Join Accel, Who Does Miles Choose…
Mitchell Green is a legendary growth equity investor and the Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital, a firm with over $5 billion in assets under management. Known as a relentless "money maker", Mitchell has led investments in the likes of Bytedance, Toast, Procore, Duo Security and more.
AGENDA:
0:00 The SaaS Apocalypse: Why Incumbents Aren't Going to Zero
05:50 "Dead Money": Why Public Software Estimates Were Too High
08:15 Leverage is the Enemy: Lessons from the 1999 Retail Crash
11:50 The Truth About Growth Equity: Zeroes vs. 10X Returns
15:40 Mainframes to AI: Why Oracle and SAP Will Thrive
20:35 The "Stock-Based Comp" Scandal: Silicon Valley’s Hidden Crime
24:35 ByteDance vs. The World: Why China Could Win the AI War
31:50 Selling is the Job: Why Buying is the Most Glamorous Part of VC
35:45 Too Many Tourists: Why 50% of VCs Shouldn't Be in the Business
44:10 The Gross Dollar Retention Rule: The Only Number That Matters in SaaS
AGENDA:
04:13 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins
13:54 Was Sam Altman Wrong to Take the Deal
24:28 OpenAI’s $110BN Mega Round: The Breakdown
28:22 Who Has a Bigger Valuation Premium: Sam Altman or Elon Musk
34:38 Why We Got the SaaS Apocalypse Wrong?
43:24 Why Salesforce Could be the Best Buy in Public Markets
47:46 Block Lays Off 40% of Team: AI or Overhiring
01:00:16 Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR… so not Dead?
01:18:15 How to Pick Winners in AI?
Monday has been hit harder than almost any other public SaaS company. With $1.3BN in ARR, the company is valued at just $3.8BN; a more than 60% fall since IPO. Today, Eran Zinman, Monday’s CEO joins Harry Stebbings in the hotseat to walkthrough six of the biggest threats to Monday’s business; what is real, what is not and what are the unknowns.
AGENDA:
05:47 Six Threats Monday Faces Today
07:04 Threat #1: Vibe Coding: Will Companies Vibe Code Everything
11:24 Threat #2: Will OpenAI and Anthropic Own the Application Layer
13:52 Threat #3: Will Agents Turn Monday and Salesforce into a Database
18:43 Why is Monday Adding 15% Headcount When Everyone is Cutting?
21:40 How Monday is Using AI to be More Efficient
27:49 What Happens to Seat Pricing? What Comes Next?
34:17 What No One Sees About Enterprise AI Adoption
37:13 How Google AI Overview Smashed 10% of our Customer Acquisition
38:49 If Bullish on Monday, Why Has Eran Not Bought More Stock…
40:38 How to Manage Internal Morale When Stock is Down 60%
44:08 Do Private Companies Have Advantages Public Companies Do Not Have
47:28 With $1.5BN in Cash, Why is Eran Not Buying More Companies…
53:30 What is the Most Offensive Bet Eran Would Like to Take?
57:13 Quickfire: Marriage, Biggest Short, Mentors