Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more.
Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as
Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:07 SpaceX's $60B Takeover of Cursor
08:04 Why Zuck Didn't Buy Cursor
14:10 Microsoft Is the Real Loser in the Cursor Deal
19:52 Stripe's $7BN OpenRouter Deal Creates Huge VC Winners
26:42 Anthropic Turns Its First Profit on $11.5B Revenue
30:35 The $100K Per Engineer Token Budget
38:36 Anthropic vs OpenAI IPO Race: Who Benefits From Going First?
48:22 Silver Lake's $43B Workday Take-Private
57:00 Higgsfield at $5.5B and Lovable at $13.3B
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