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20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar

20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar

Author: Harry Stebbings June 29, 2026 Duration: 1:00:44
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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KR Sridhar is the Founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, the distributed power company powering the AI revolution. Under his leadership, Bloom has grown to a market cap of approximately $93 billion, with revenue surpassing $2 billion as demand from AI data centres has surged. Over the last 12–18 months, Bloom has become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI infrastructure boom. It's also the largest position in Leo Aschenbrenner's investment portfolio, making up around 16% of his fund.

AGENDA:

00:00 Why Failure Is Never an Option: The Mindset That Built a $90B Company

05:20 The 25-Year Bet: Why Bloom Never Doubted AI Would Need Its Technology

12:10 Andy Grove's Brutal Leadership Lesson That Changed Everything

18:40 AI Isn't a Bubble—It's a "Hockey Stick on a Hockey Stick"

25:30 Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race

34:20 The Radical Vision: Why Power Must Move to the Edge of the Grid

40:40 How Bloom Beat Everyone to Power Oracle's AI Data Centres in Just 55 Days

50:00 The Future of Cities, Energy Sovereignty & Why AI Will Democratise Power

52:10 Parenting, Purpose & the One Belief KR Thinks Everyone Gets Wrong About AI

55:00 The Next 10 Years: Why AI Could Create Global Energy Abundance

 

 


Hosted by Harry Stebbings, The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) pulls back the curtain on the high-stakes worlds of venture capital and startup building. Each episode is a compact, twenty-minute dive into the minds shaping the future of technology. You’ll hear candid conversations with legendary investors, the very individuals who fund and guide the next generation of companies, featuring voices like Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Beyond the capital, this podcast dedicates time to the founders themselves. Weekly, Stebbings sits down with transformative entrepreneurs such as Spotify's Daniel Ek, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman, unpacking the real journeys behind their iconic companies. The format is direct and focused, cutting straight to the core insights on funding strategies, pitch dynamics, and the personal philosophies that drive success. Tuning into this podcast means gaining an unfiltered perspective from both sides of the table, all delivered in a concise and accessible style that fits into your day.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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Duration: 1:14:19
Nikesh Arora is the Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader. Since taking over in 2018, he has transformed the company from an $18 billion market cap business into one worth more than $225…
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Duration: 1:18:42
Ryan Peterson is the Founder & CEO @ Flexport, the logistics darling of the venture capital world that has raised $900M+ with the last round valuing the company at $8BN. Today, the company does $450M in revenue growing 3…
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Duration: 1:25:04
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Duration: 1:20:56
Aravind Srinivas is the Founder and CEO of Perplexity, one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world. Since the start of the year, Perplexity has tripled revenue to well over $500M in ARR. Aravind has raised over…
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Duration: 1:21:24
Matan Grinberg is the Founder and CEO @ Factory, an AI research lab, bringing autonomy to software engineering. Matan has raised over $220M for the company from the likes of Sequoia, Khosla, NEA, Evantic and 20VC. Last r…
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Duration: 1:06:40
Roman Chernin is Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Nebius, one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in the world. Today, Nebius operates some of the largest AI compute clusters globally and serves le…
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Duration: 1:34:04
AGENDA: 00:00:00 — Private Markets Are "F***ing Done" & The Shift to Heavy CapEx 00:00:46 — Anthropic Files to Go Public 00:04:59 — Will the Anthropic IPO Break the Startup Ecosystem? 00:06:22 — The "Billion-Dollar Posit…
20VC: Mercor CEO on Why Application Layer Companies Have No Defensibility, The Model is the Product | Token Spend Will Exceed Headcount Spend in 5 Years | The True Cost of Hiring AI Researchers in the Valley Today with Brendan Foody [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:23
Brendan Foody is the Founder and CEO @ Mercor, one of the leading data providers to the largest labs on the planet including OpenAI. In the last two years, Brendan has scaled the company to $1.5BN in ARR and a valuation…

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