Rory O'Driscoll — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries

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

August 6, 2026

Airtable Sold, a Hedge Fund Blows Up, and the AI Security Reality Check This episode of 20VC covers a dense stretch of news: Airtable's acquisition at a fraction of its peak valuation, the…

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

20VC: Dario and Anthropic Declare War on Open-Source | Coinbase Slash AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40BN Valuation and Impending IPO | Bending Spoons: Smartest IPO of 2026 and the Year for SaaS Roll-Ups

July 2, 2026

Coinbase Slashes AI Spend, Anthropic Fights Open Source, and the IPO Market Shifts The hosts of 20VC gathered for their weekly news roundup, covering a dense set of developments: Coinbase's…

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

20VC: Deepseek Raises $50BN | Wall St's $725BN AI Question | The Rise of Open Source & How it Threatens OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds it's Own Chip: Jalapeno | The Death of Moats & The New AI Software Winners

June 25, 2026

DeepSeek's $50BN Round, Google's Talent Exodus, and the $725BN Question Hanging Over AI DeepSeek closed a $7.4 billion Series A at a roughly $50 billion valuation — but the founder is personally…

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

20VC: SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN | Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix and Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN and The Case for Sovereign Models | Fin Acquired by Salesforce for $3.6BN

June 18, 2026

SpaceX, Anthropic, and the AI Market's Great Sorting SpaceX's IPO was the largest in history, and within days the company's market cap hit $2.7 trillion — making Elon Musk roughly a trillion…

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

20VC: SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR | Lovable Hits $500M ARR | Founders Revolt Against VCs: The Fundraising Horror Stories Going Viral

June 11, 2026

This week on 20VC, Harry Stebbings, Rory O'Driscoll, and Jason Lemkin tackled a dense news cycle dominated by SpaceX's historic IPO roadshow, OpenAI's public filing, and a wave of secondary…