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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley.

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Latest The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch transcripts

20VC: You Need $1BN To Do Seed Today: The Untold Truths of Venture | Who Wins and Who Loses in the Next Decade of VC | Why Margin and Price Matter Less in a World of AI with Sameer Dholakia, Bessemer

October 19, 2026

Sameer Dholakia (0:00)

Intelligence is going to be bigger as a market than oil. I've been in software for 31 years now, and the handful of other moments where I have felt magic, a trillion dollar super cycle followed every single time, and it doesn't happen very often. I absolutely believe capitalism, though, not being a giant global…

Harry Stebbings (0:24)

$5.75 billion.

That is how much Bessemer Venture Partners raised across their two new funds, a $4 billion fund and a $1.75 billion seed fund. My word, they really took it literally when I said you need a billion dollars to do seed. Well, I saw this and I thought, we've got to have Sameer on the show. Sameer is one of the leaders…

Sameer Dholakia (4:26)

Dude, I'm so fired up to see you. As they always say, longtime listener, now second time caller. I'm fired up to be here, man. Thanks for having me.

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