Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald said on the '20VC' podcast that he is 'tempted to say' Uber will have fewer employees in five years due to AI, but he won't emphatically state it because early …
Uber Chief Operating Officer Andrew Macdonald said on the 20VC podcast that the company's scale—nearly $250 billion in annualized gross bookings—makes it harder to justify new business bets, as the co…
Canva cut its 2026 growth forecast from 30% to 20%, a move that 20VC x SaaStr hosts Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll say signals an existential threat to the prosumer design tool as AI agents bypass i…
OpenRouter, the LLM gateway market leader valued at $1.3–1.5 billion, is reportedly fielding a $10 billion acquisition offer from Stripe, according to founder and CEO Alex Atallah in an interview on T…
Suno, the AI music company backed by Founder Collective at seed, is now valued at $5 billion, according to David Frankel, co-founder of Founder Collective, who said on the Twenty Minute VC podcast tha…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says his AI startup, valued at $60 billion, operates without KPIs or overtime, telling staff in a recorded session that research requires a relaxed environment and that …
Fireworks AI hit $1 billion in annual recurring revenue with 200 employees by betting on millions of specialized AI models rather than a single AGI, and founder and CEO Lin Qiao predicts token costs w…
Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft this week, alleging a six-year Apple employee walked physical prototypes out the door for show-and-tell, encouraged by a 24-year Apple veteran now running Open…
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody stated in a 20VC interview that his company now spends more on AI agent tokens than on human salaries, marking a concrete shift in operational spending. The claim positions Me…