Blog•Oct 28, 2025
Mazama Energy Unveils the World’s Hottest Enhanced Geothermal System: A 629 °F (331 °C)…
Mazama Energy announced it has created the world’s hottest enhanced geothermal system at its Newberry, Oregon pilot, achieving a bottomhole temperature of 629°F (331°C) and targeting 750°F (400°C) by 2026. The company says the superhot EGS can yield up to 10× more power density, use 75% less water and drill 80% fewer wells versus current approaches, potentially delivering baseload, carbon-free power at below $0.05/kWh and enabling siting of data centers and AI infrastructure anywhere. The demonstration validated directional drilling, high‑temperature well construction, and the firm’s Thermal Lattice™ stimulation—positioning Mazama to scale from a 15 MW pilot to 200 MW projects and, ultimately, unlock hundreds of gigawatts of geothermal capacity in the U.S. and globally.
By Vinod Khosla
Podcast•Oct 28, 2025•27 min
Chobani & Patagonia CEOs Break Down Where Values Meet Profit
In the episode, Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert and Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya discuss how they align values with profit, navigating activist government pressure and anticipatory compliance while scaling their businesses. They share strategies for integrating environmental stewardship and immigration support...
By Masters of Scale
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Start at $1M ARR, Let Customers Map Growth
If you aren’t sure how to get to $100m ARR, just get to $1m ARR Then just ask your customers They will basically tell you
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Series B Deals Rarely Deliver 10x Returns—Pick Wisely
The latest data from @cartainc is brutal. Of 547 Series B deals in 2018: - Figma did 100x ... but - 39% are worth 1x or less - Only 34% are worth 2x or more after 7 years But - 11.7% do achieve...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Kaizen Secures $4M Seed to Accelerate Browser Automation
Congrats to @aquariusacquah, @michaelssilver, and the @joinkaizen team on their $4M seed! Kaizen allows companies to deploy complex browser automation in minutes instead of weeks. Kaizen powers critical automation in healthcare, finance, and logistics.
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 28, 2025
OpenAI Shifts to Public Benefit Corporation Status
OpenAI conversion to PBC https://t.co/3tdPRWR4DU
By Elad Gil
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Seeking SF Early-Stage Investors to Beta Test Platform
I'm building a Product Hunt for investors. Looking for a few SF-based, early-stage investors to beta test. DM me if interested. :) (will delete this tweet shortly)
By Ryan Hoover
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Vesence AI Secures $9M Seed to Power Office Law Tools
Congrats to @HenrikTaro, @LudvigSwanstrom, and @VesenceAI on their $9M seed! Vesence brings AI agents to Microsoft Office for law firms. Built for accuracy and quality control, Vesence helps lawyers avoid costly mistakes across Word & Outlook, already seeing 90% weekly...
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Mantle Automates Grunt Work, Letting Companies Focus on Building
Mantle (https://t.co/acxDq4HklH) is the operating system for every company. Tell Mantle about the grunt work you do and it does it for you in the background, exactly how you would, directly in your stack. Let Mantle do the boring stuff for...
By YCombinator
News•Oct 28, 2025
Venture Capital Is Not an Asset Class, Says Sequoia’s Roelof Botha
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha argued that venture capital should not be treated as an asset class, noting that VC returns are essentially uncorrelated and represent a “return‑free risk.” He pointed out that the number of...
By TechCrunch Venture Feed
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Power Law Still Dominates Across All Domains
The Power Law remains undefeated https://t.co/9EEvSYDfxl
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Poolside's 2GW AI Factory Redefines Vertical Integration
some thoughts on @poolsideai's project horizon announcement last week: building a 2gw ai factory "This level of vertical integration - from model and agent development through to power generation and deployment - gives poolside a durable advantage as AI systems become...
By Nathan Benaich
News•Oct 28, 2025
CEO of Alphabet’s X, Astro Teller, on What Makes a Moonshot
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Astro Teller, CEO of Alphabet’s X, explained that a moonshot must tackle a huge world problem, propose a product that could eliminate it, and rely on a breakthrough technology, noting X’s 2% hit rate and "fail...
By TechCrunch Venture Feed
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Founders Build Alone, Ignoring Doubt and Exhaustion
Founders don’t wait for perfect days. They work tired. They work late. They work when everyone doubts them. No one’s coming to save you. It’s on you to build it.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Public SaaS Stagnates; Private AI Unicorns Lead Growth
As the world follows every whisper & rumor from AI, what has happened to public SaaS? The answer is not much! All the fun is in the private markets. Multiples haven’t moved outside of a narrow band since the post-Covid crash in...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Sequoia Backs AI-Driven Founders to Reshape Industries
Today, we're launching @Sequoia's latest seed and venture funds to partner with outlier founders at the start of their journey. There's never been a more exciting time to be a founder. Nearly every industry will be disrupted by AI. So far, the...
By Sequoia Capital
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Investors Chase Companies Hitting $0‑$100M Fast
"The best companies are going from $0-$100M in revenue very very quickly. As an investor, you have to believe that this company is going to be in the $0-$100M club". @DavidCahn6 Love to hear your thoughts on the required growth...
By Harry Stebbings
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Great Product Doesn’t Guarantee Business
The biggest myth in tech is that great product automatically builds a great business.
By Hiten Shah
News•Oct 27, 2025
Roelof Botha Explains Why Sequoia Supports Shaun Maguire After COO Quit
Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha defended partner Shaun Maguire after Maguire’s July 4 X post calling NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani an “Islamist,” citing the firm’s commitment to free speech and opinion diversity. The remarks sparked a backlash, an open letter...
By TechCrunch Venture Feed
Podcast•Oct 27, 2025•30 min
Raghu Raghuram: AI, Robotics, and the Rebirth of Infrastructure
Raghu Raghuram reflects on his front‑row experience of the early internet wars, the Netscape‑Microsoft browser battles, and the landmark VMware acquisition of Nicira that reshaped networking. He and the a16z hosts discuss how VMware grew from a modest startup to...
By a16z Podcast
Social•Oct 27, 2025
AI Marketing Startup Hits $1.15M ARR, 997% Growth
AI startups are printing cash. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI platform helping marketers maximize every dollar. Automating research, creative testing and scaling campaigns. > $1.15M ARR > $798K TTM revenue > $678K TTM profit > 997% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/jNAVKv3ABY https://t.co/GOthuI0JQl
By Andrew Gazdecki
Podcast•Oct 27, 2025•1h 4m
ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski
In this episode, ElevenLabs co‑founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski discusses how the company’s emotion‑driven voice AI is reshaping sectors such as personalized healthcare and film production. He explains the technology’s ability to generate nuanced, expressive speech that can adapt to...
By Grit (Kleiner Perkins)
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Upcoming Founder Events: Batter Up, Pitch Competitions, Game Night
Yo founders, mark your calendars: • Batter Up SF — Nov 10 • Batter Up NYC — Nov 10 • Founder Friends SG (Fintech Festival) — Nov 12 Community partner events: • Wild Card: Game Night — Nov 5 • Monterrey Tech Week — Early Stage...
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Skip Process‑obsessed VP of Sales Before $10M ARR
Before $10m ARR, Do not hire a VP of Sales that mainly talks about process You are too early for them
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Best Deals Often Come From Solo Term Sheets
"Most of the great investments I have made I was the only term sheet. This idea that the best companies are always super hot rounds is wrong." @DavidCahn6 Have your best investments always been competitive @chadbyers @infoarbitrage @honam @Alfred_Lin? https://t.co/MWp77TBZzR
By Harry Stebbings
Podcast•Oct 27, 2025•1h 14m
20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double,...
In this episode, Sequoia partner David Cahn argues we’re in an AI bubble but sees lasting moats in physical data‑center infrastructure, while mapping out which companies will thrive or falter as AI reshapes markets. He discusses the impact of big‑tech...
By The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)
Social•Oct 27, 2025
AI Meetups Expand to Zurich and Munich in 2026
new zurich and munich events added to the @airstreet ai meetup calendar for 2026! stopping in a city near you soon - subscribe at luma(dot)com/airstreet https://t.co/2JYV1TVNOt
By Nathan Benaich
Blog•Oct 26, 2025
20VC Newsletter - 26th October 2025
20VC’s latest newsletter synthesizes three interviews with practical takeaways for founders and investors: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz laid out a repeatable M&A playbook that rebuilds frontends in months and full backends to hit product scale in about nine months (vs....
By Harry Stebbings
Social•Oct 27, 2025
YC Winter 2026 Applications Open—Apply by Nov 10
Applications for the YC Winter 2026 batch are now open! Apply by November 10: https://t.co/gNl84El3BS https://t.co/H9yEOuCwR5
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 26, 2025
AI Support Saves Money, Yet Still Costs Too Much
We all know how much AI has already changed customer support But it's not cheap Across all my investments in the space, the average price to resolve or reflect a ticket is about $1 For complex issues, around $5 in tokens etc That's much...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Prioritize Operator/Founder LPs, Even Small Checks
The VC version of #8: Over-index on operator/founder LPs, even if their checks are small. It's one of the best decisions we made at Weekend Fund.
By Ryan Hoover
Social•Oct 27, 2025
AI Winners, Margins, and Defence: Who Thrives?
Our last episode with David Cahn was one of the most downloaded of last year. This episode today is even better. - The Winners & Losers in AI - The $0-$100M Club: Is Triple, triple, double, double dead? - The Future of Defence: Who...
By Harry Stebbings
Social•Oct 26, 2025
Software Awakens: Real‑time Learning Revives Innovation
Software is waking up again. Ten years ago, apps were the frontier. Screens were canvases. Curiosity was the culture. Then the App Store froze. The same grids, the same playbooks and the same incentives repeated endlessly. We optimized everything except imagination. For a while,...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Share LPs Across Non‑competing Funds to Accelerate Fundraising
The secret to LP intros that no one tells you. Make friends in alternate, non competitive categories (growth, secondaries etc etc). Share LPs. Discovery is the hardest thing in fundraising. Non-competitive managers sharing LPs is needle moving.
By Harry Stebbings
Social•Oct 27, 2025
From $1M ARR to $1M Weekly Revenue
When 20VC led the Series A for Fyxer they were at $1M ARR. Today, they are adding $1M a week. 🚀 https://t.co/qvjg8Ke7uw
By Harry Stebbings
Social•Oct 26, 2025
No‑Code Platforms Turn Weeks‑Long CRUD Projects Into Minutes
Yes, ‘prosumer’ vibe coding apps like @Replit are best at CRUD and CRUD+AI apps today. But that also means if you have some experience building CRUD apps … that you can just fly when you ‘vibe’ your next one. All the stuff...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 27, 2025
Celebrating Entrepreneurs' Wins Fuels My Purpose
My favorite part of running @acquiredotcom is seeing entrepreneurs win. The founders who bootstrapped through hard months. The ones who landed their 1st customer. The ones who just sold their startup and changed their life. Every win reminds me of why this...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 27, 2025
VCs Measure Your Startup Against This Benchmark
Fair or not, this is what your VCs are comparing you to Fair or not https://t.co/v9L5oDXV2h
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 26, 2025
Lean Execution Drives 24% Revenue Growth and Profitability
2025 has been a big year for us at @acquiredotcom. We have grown revenue, reduced expenses and finally became profitable. > $6.1 million in revenue, up 24%. > $4.5 million in expenses, down 26%. > Operating profit, up 50.2%. > Total profit, $1.6 million. Absolutely...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 26, 2025
Silence Signals Trouble—Unless It Hides $50M Profit
It’s usually a bad sign when a founder stops sending investor updates. But occasionally they surface with impressive news. Just received this one: “$50M run rate and profitable” For founders (as a founder and investor): Most investors will assume the negative without updates. They’re...
By Ryan Hoover
Social•Oct 26, 2025
75% Fit with Top VCs Signals Major Validation
"A 75% fit with @altosvc + @20vcFund? That's huge. It was exactly who we'd hoped for." Sign up for waitlist for SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/Eg5TFmnXmm https://t.co/r9Ct5KFhbP
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 26, 2025
SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking Delivers 116 Intros in Two Weeks
The new SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking tool has already made 116 VC intros in https://t.co/P5GuMbTEG9 https://t.co/RzkMeULyjI
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 26, 2025
Ship Early, Execution Beats Perfect Pitch Deck
When you ship v1 before the pitch deck is perfect, you are already ahead of 90% of startup founders still polishing their slides. Execution crushes credentials!
By Niko Bonatsos
Social•Oct 26, 2025
Founders Ignore Market Timing; Invest Every Year
Great founders don’t time the market Great founders often don’t even check the markets at all They just start up when they see white space, and are ready to go So … Every year is a good year to invest
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 26, 2025
Anduril Hits 6.6× Multiple Since My Tattoo
Anduril's at a 6.6x multiple since my tattoo. Can't wait to share what the second one is. VCBrags, come slay me.
By Cyan Banister
Social•Oct 25, 2025
Empowering Debt Relief: Partnering with Ava’s Impactful Team
Really proud to have the opportunity to work with Reza Rahman Omar Sinno Abed L. and the team at Ava. They’ve been pretty quiet about the work they’ve been doing for the past few years but they’re making a really...
By Charles Hudson
Social•Oct 25, 2025
Scaling $1M‑$50M: Execution Beats Early Milestones
I do not care how long it takes for a company to get to $1M in revenue. But I do care desperately, how long it takes for a company to get from $1M-$50M in revenue. The road to PMF is...
By Harry Stebbings
Social•Oct 25, 2025
Execution Beats Credentials: Build Fast, Ship Faster
Founders: please ditch the credential chase. Build fast and ship. Strong execution is the ultimate credential.
By Niko Bonatsos
Social•Oct 25, 2025
Serial Unicorn Experience Fuels Sky‑High Seed Valuation
Talked the other day to a founder raising a seed round at an insane price Here's the thing: the last two start-ups he worked at are worth $10B+ He wasn't the founder at those ones. But he does know how...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Keep Updating Investors to Sustain Belief During Hard Times
Did some of the best start-ups like Figma, Stripe, etc. take years to get to any material revenue? Yes. That happens — and it can work out. But I don’t think they stopped sending investor updates. So far, I’ve seen 0 success from...
By Jason Lemkin