PodcastThe Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The PitchOctober 8, 2026
20VC: Cognition vs Factory: Vinod Khosla Creates a Storm | OpenAI Nears $70B Run Rate: Anthropic Under Threat | ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22B & Salesforce Buys Listen Labs for $2B
Hosts and guest discuss OpenAI's revenue reacceleration versus Anthropic, the Cognition-Factory CRO poaching controversy, open-weight models like Reflection, ElevenLabs and Listen Labs deals, Vercel and agent-driven vendor choice, and the Grok-Nvidia license deal lawsuit.
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