The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
“20VC: Airtable Sold for $1.285BN | Leo Achenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B | Anthropic Model Breaches Three Companies' Security | Big Tech Earnings: Why Palantir Beat The Rest” from “The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch” by pods4.me
August 6, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
Special Guest: Nikesh Arora, CEO @ Palo Alto Networks.
AGENDA:
04:50 Airtable Sold to Bending Spoons for $1.285B
17:00 Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up as Citadel Buys His $16BN Book
22:30 Anthropic's AI Models Breach Three Companies as Cyber Threat Accelerates
33:35 Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B as Chinese Models Crush AI Prices
38:05 Valar Atomics Triples to $6B as Sequoia Bets on Nuclear Power for AI
42:50 OpenAI and Anthropic Could Trigger a Massive Public-Market Dislocation
52:55 Big Tech and Palantir Earnings Ignite the Next Phase of the AI Gold Rush
1:04:30 Procore Buys DroneDeploy for $900M in a High-Stakes 12x Revenue Bet
1:10:55 Scale AI Hits $1.5B ARR After the Meta Deal Left It for Dead
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