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• 20VC: Cognition vs Factory: Vinod Khosla Creates a Storm | OpenAI Nears $70B Run Rate: Anthropic Under Threat | ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22B & Salesforce Buys Listen Labs for $2BThe Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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• ▶ Why Did Rory O'driscoll Lean to Liquidity Between OpenAI at 1.4 Trillion and Anthropic Going Public at 2? The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Cognition vs Factory: Vinod Khosla Creates a Storm | OpenAI Nears $70B Run Rate: Anthropic Under Threat | ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22B & Salesforce Buys Listen Labs for $2B · at 10:27 Share Transcript

  Rory O'Driscoll leans to liquidity at the margin between OpenAI at 1.4 trillion and Anthropic going public at 2. Liquidity is a lot better to have than not have liquidity when the amount of information is as unknown as it is. Rory O'Driscoll would much prefer to be in the liquid stock rather than accept holding for three or four years because that is what the risk of being private is.

  Rory O'Driscoll recalls the first above a billion dollar round in the mid-90s. Observers thought the size was crazy. The first venture round above a trillion dollars represents moving right along with three orders of magnitude. Rory O'Driscoll believes OpenAI is big enough to go public and the company should p