October 2025

800 posts from 182 blogs.

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Date	Issue	Topic	When
Oct 31, 2025	20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber \| How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million \| Money Fixed My Problems, Then Made Me Miserable The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 31, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	11mo ago
Oct 30, 2025	20VC: a16z Raises $10BN in New Funds \| Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation \| OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses \| Why IRR is a BS Metric and Three Ways to Win in VC Today The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 30, 2025 · Tech business and strategy	Tech business and strategy	11mo ago
Oct 27, 2025	20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI \| The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? \| The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses \| How to Analyse Margins and Growth Rates in a World of AI The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 27, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	11mo ago
Oct 24, 2025	20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 \| The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It \| TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality \| Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 24, 2025 · Product and growth	Product and growth	11mo ago
Oct 23, 2025	20VC: Why VC Today is Worse Than 2021 \| Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad Investment Today \| Why We Are Deluding Ourselves on Growth Expectations \| Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation \| Benchmark Adds Their Newest General Partner The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 23, 2025 · Tech business and strategy	Tech business and strategy	11mo ago
Oct 22, 2025	20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation \| Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On \| Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky \| Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions: What Works & What Doesn't The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 22, 2025 · Tech business and strategy	Tech business and strategy	11mo ago
Oct 17, 2025	20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week \| Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins \| Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning \| Do Margins Matter in a World of AI \| The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 17, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	11mo ago
Oct 16, 2025	20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder \| Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M \| Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI The Twenty Minute VC · Oct 16, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	11mo ago

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