Harry Stebbings
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Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Harry Stebbings, Scott Farquhar
Atlassian Co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes discusses a strategic bet on multi-model AI adoption and "vibe coding" to empower non-technical employees while expanding the engineering workforce over the next five years. He outlines the longevity of the company's co-CEO dynamic with Scott Farquhar, which relies on a strict 60–80% operational overlap and a unique dispute resolution clause to navigate market volatility and uncertain AI monetization. Cannon-Brookes concludes by framing the organization's future around "creating rather than defending" to combat corporate entropy, urging a shift toward per-value pricing models as the industry faces a Cambrian explosion of new, yet unproven, AI business structures.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds
Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Harry Stebbings
OpenAI secured a strategic partnership with AMD to purchase six gigawatts of Instinct chips in exchange for equity warrants, a deal that triggered a 30% surge in AMD's stock price while reinforcing OpenAI's leverage over chip manufacturers. Concurrently, OpenAI Developer Day introduced native app integrations and an "AgentKit" tool to accelerate AI agent development, though critics questioned the immediate utility of these features compared to existing ecosystems. In the broader venture landscape, massive valuations for infrastructure firms like Vercel and Supabase coexist with tightening liquidity for sub-scale assets, as university endowments divest stakes and new SPAC structures aim to curb speculative pricing.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth
Andrew Feldman, Harry Stebbings
Cerebras Systems secured its largest-ever funding round led by Fidelity to accelerate wafer-scale chip manufacturing and expand US data center capacity ahead of a future IPO. The company leverages its unique hardware to address critical memory bandwidth bottlenecks while navigating an unpredictable global market characterized by exponential demand growth and intense talent competition. Despite significant infrastructure challenges and geopolitical headwinds, the firm reports substantial revenue from the UAE and maintains confidence that its technology will drive future productivity gains by reorganizing economic workflows rather than simply replacing existing tools.
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy
Sam Altman, Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Harry Stebbings
Venture capital strategy in 2025 has bifurcated into binary funding decisions driven by AI narratives or massive IPO potential, leaving non-AI growth companies struggling to secure capital despite strong fundamentals. As public market multiples face potential reversion, investors are increasingly favoring dominant market leaders while consolidating portfolio companies through M&A to create critical mass for public exits. Consequently, founders must navigate a high-stakes environment where traditional efficiency metrics are scrutinized for data honesty and political neutrality, forcing immediate acceptance of deals over valuation optimization.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN
Jonathan Ross, Harry Stebbings
Jonathan Ross projects that within five years, the AI sector's trajectory will be defined by a critical convergence of energy capacity and compute availability, with NVIDIA potentially reaching a $10 trillion valuation due to a competitive temporal moat. While the market remains concentrated among approximately 36 entities, firms like Grok are leveraging proprietary hardware cycles and massive speed advantages to capture value, contrasting sharply with competitors hindered by supply chain constraints. Ross further argues that this rapid evolution will drive significant deflationary economic shifts and create new labor categories, ultimately positioning energy-sufficient nations with rapid deployment capabilities to dominate the global landscape.
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI
Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Harry Stebbings
NVIDIA's $100 billion investment in OpenAI has ignited a massive capital feedback loop that concentrates the majority of the AI boom's revenue among six dominant customers, including Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. While venture capital flows remain hyper-concentrated with 75% of 2025 funding directed to just 19 firms, investors are increasingly bypassing traditional due diligence and demanding growth metrics far exceeding historical benchmarks to justify valuations. This aggressive financial engineering is underpinned by robust cash flows that allow major players to sustain solvency, even as market dynamics shift toward testing whether AI scaling laws can endure a three-order-of-magnitude increase in compute without triggering a bubble collapse.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM
Hemant Taneja, Harry Stebbings
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Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This
Kaz Nejatian, Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Harry Stebbings
Kaz Nejatian transitioned from Shopify to lead Opendoor as CEO, implementing a mission-driven compensation structure and aggressive operational reviews to pivot the real estate tech firm toward long-term value creation. Simultaneously, Oracle secured a $300 billion future revenue commitment from OpenAI, triggering a massive market valuation surge driven by strategic bets on AI infrastructure despite near-term profitability risks. In parallel, the broader technology landscape is shifting as Microsoft reduces its exclusive reliance on OpenAI, while AI-native startups like Gamma and Higgsfield accelerate revenue growth by drastically lowering barriers to content creation for non-technical users.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months
Brendan Foody, Harry Stebbings
Led by 22-year-old founder Brandon Foody, Macaw has achieved a $500 million revenue run rate by transitioning from low-cost crowdsourcing to a high-value expert network charging $95 per hour for premium AI training data. Following its acquisition by Scale AI, the company quadrupled revenue while maintaining positive margins, now operating with supply constraints as top-tier labs consolidate their spend to leverage Macaw's proprietary access to elite talent for complex reinforcement learning tasks. Despite a current valuation hovering between $200 and $250 million, the private entity plans to pursue further financing to signal market dominance, aiming for a $10 billion future as it refines the industry's shift toward high-quality human-in-the-loop data curation.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M
Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Jeff Lawson, Harry Stebbings
Recent discussions on executive compensation and venture capital trends highlight a shift toward massive performance-based pay packages for founders, exemplified by Elon Musk's $1 trillion Tesla plan, while corporate investors increasingly deploy capital into late-stage AI assets to manage orphaned cash. This market frenzy has intensified scrutiny on valuation inflation and fraud, with legal rulings against Anthropic and calls for stricter penalties as venture diligence becomes increasingly rapid and superficial. Amidst these shifts, public market leaders are advised to aggressively pursue M&A and AI integration to avoid growth penalties, even as specific valuations for companies like Figma and Canva adjust to more realistic market conditions.
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup
Mati Staniszewski, Harry Stebbings
Eleven Labs has accelerated to $200 million in annual revenue and a 30x revenue multiple valuation by pivoting from a dubbing concept to a proprietary text-to-speech and voice cloning platform that now powers enterprise agentic solutions. The company distinguishes itself through a flat organizational structure, a custom infrastructure strategy that ensures faster execution, and a refusal to sell despite multiple acquisition offers. With a team of 250 distributed globally, the firm continues to close funding rounds quickly while advocating for regulatory alignment to sustain its leadership in voice AI.
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock
Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Cliff Obrecht, Harry Stebbings
This analysis examines a high-stakes AI investment landscape where Anthropic secured a $13 billion round at an $183 billion valuation while Canva accelerated toward an IPO with re-accelerating 40% growth. Market dynamics reveal significant inefficiencies, exemplified by Lovable's rapid valuation doubling and intense competition with Replit, alongside major corporate moves including OpenAI's StatSig acquisition and Meta's scrutinized Scale AI deal. Looking forward, industry leaders warn that while AI infrastructure investment targets a $3–4 trillion opportunity, sustainable success depends on companies navigating the critical transition from early-adopter hype to mainstream utility and managing rising compute costs.
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice
Nick Frosst, Sam Altman, Harry Stebbings
Cohere founder Trevor Stuhldreher critiques industry alarmism over AGI while outlining the company's strategy of prioritizing enterprise utility and tool-use over consumer entertainment through its "North" agentic framework. The company recently valued at $6.8 billion differentiates itself by training efficient models on synthetic and high-quality data to handle repetitive labor tasks, with projections that such agentic workflows will replace entry-level roles by 2026. Stuhldreher further advocates for sovereign model infrastructure to protect national interests and warns that without careful policy, widespread AI adoption will exacerbate income inequality despite the inevitability of workforce displacement.
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff, Rory O'Driscoll, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings
Mark Benioff of Salesforce asserts that current AI represents an architectural shift toward agentic capabilities rather than true AGI, driving a $1 billion revenue surge and a $41 billion valuation for the company's Data Cloud. This transformation has enabled Salesforce to replace 4,000 human support roles with automated agents while securing a major U.S. Army contract against competitor Palantir. The discussion further highlights broader market dynamics, including massive valuations for AI startups like Anthropic and Sequoia Capital's strategic retention of equity in Klarna, as investors grapple with scaling costs and capital allocation strategies.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS
Bessemer Venture Partner Byron Deeter outlines a transformative AI cycle defined by unprecedented capital concentration, where top-tier companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are projected to raise $100 billion collectively while redefining growth timelines from years to mere months. To capture these "supernova" opportunities, Bessemer is shifting from strict value investing to paying market-clearing prices and expanding liquidity strategies to accommodate a predicted IPO rebound in late 2024. The session further highlights how AI is displacing traditional labor budgets, enabling micro-businesses to reach billion-dollar valuations and forcing incumbents to compete with agile, data-driven startups.