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episode briefing
20VC

How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong

2026-06-27 · 7 company · 0 thematic
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speakers
paul erlanger

Co-founder and CEO of Fomo, a social-first mobile trading platform. He previously worked at the crypto derivatives exchange dYdX.

harry stebbings

Founder of 20VC (The Twenty Minute VC), one of the most popular venture-capital podcasts, and its associated fund.

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“SpaceX being first to market is going to be very interesting... if SpaceX performs well, the OpenAI, Anthropic IPOs will also go very well. If SpaceX performs poorly, then those are going to have a hard time.”
—paul erlanger
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