The Deal Room: The Venture Fund that changed ...

Is artificial intelligence threatening the future of management consulting? As AI transforms the industry, firms like McKinsey, BCG, Bain and Accenture face growing questions about their business models, profitability and graduate recruitment.In this episode of the Market Maker P ...  Show more

Anthropic is preparing for one of the biggest IPOs in history, targeting a valuation of up to $1.75 trillion. But behind the extraordinary growth of Claude lies an $80 billion headline loss, a complex ownership structure and hundreds of billions of dollars in future spending comm ...  Show more

0:40 Jason intros Jeff Housenbold 2:16 What did Jeff do before joining the Vision Fund? How did he help scale eBay & Shutterfly? 4:15 How did he wind up at SoftBank? What was it like being recruited by Masayoshi Son? How did Masa pitch the Vision Fund to Jeff? 13:28 What was the ...  Show more

This week, we revisit one of our favourite episodes. After years of mega-deals and mega-money gushing into start-ups, venture capital fundraising hit a record-high last year. Now, the FT’s Richard Waters says the fundraising bonanza is over and helps us explore what that means ...

In this episode Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@theSamParr) predict what venture capital will look like in the future. Shaan breaks down the different ways someone can win as a VC and also explains how SPACs work. The guys also talk about a company providing dummy data, the allure of ...  Show more