{"podcast":{"title":"The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch","slug":"twenty-minute-vc","podcast_index_feed_id":938150,"rss_url":"https://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/2/b/a/d2ba673c1d134c2be55e3c100dce7605/WhatsApp_Image_2024-10-28_at_11.39.21.jpeg","author":"The Twenty Minute VC","episode_count":1490,"summary":"The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and more.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T14:19:38.626933+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc"},"episode":{"title":"20VC: Corgi Insurance: The Most Intense Workplace Culture in America: 7 Days Per Week, Founder Sleeps in Office, Corgi Cafe Open 24 Hours a Day, 60% of First 30 Employees Have Corgi Tattoos | The Journey from $0 to $2.6BN Valuation in Just 2 Years","slug":"20vc-corgi-insurance-the-most-intense-workplace-culture-in-america-7-days-per-week-founder-sleeps-in-office-corgi-cafe-open-24-hours-a-day-60-of-first-30-employees-have-corgi-tattoos-the-journey-from-0-to-2-6bn-valuation","published_at":"2026-05-30T07:07:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc/20vc-corgi-insurance-the-most-intense-workplace-culture-in-america-7-days-per-week-founder-sleeps-in-office-corgi-cafe-open-24-hours-a-day-60-of-first-30-employees-have-corgi-tattoos-the-journey-from-0-to-2-6bn-valuation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc","url":"https://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/20vc-corgi-insurance-the-most-intense-workplace-culture-in-america-7-days-per-week-founder-sleeps-in-office-corgi-cafe-open-24-hours-a-day-60-of-first-30-employees-have-corgi-tattoos-the-journey-from-0-to-26bn-valuation-in-just-2-years","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thetwentyminutevc/The_Memo__Nico_Laqua__Corgi.mp3?dest-id=240976","summary":"Nico Laqua is the Co-Founder and CEO of Corgi Insurance, an AI-native insurance carrier built for startups. Corgi is the most intense workplace culture in America. The team works 7 days per week. The founder sleeps in the office. ⅔ of the first 30 team members have a Corgi tattoo. This week, Corgi raised $106M, valuing the company at a whopping $2.6BN. AGENDA: 06:35 Why going to university was a massive waste of time 09:42 Why we work seven days a week 11:58 Why we do work trials and how that is a test of people's stamina 18:41 Why we created a cafe in the biggest annoyance with San Francisco 22:00 Why I am so bullish on London 23:49 Why I haven't sold a single secondary 24:19 Why people who found companies in New York prioritise dating over their company 30:46 Biggest lessons on cash comp and equity 31:13 Team members can be split into three separate groups 34:59 Biggest lesson from Brian Chesky on price 35:44 What is the right amount of time to be fundraising for? 36:47 Good companies get deals done and what makes the best venture investors? 40:34 Why AI makes sales and marketing more valuable 43:12 Why I don't like boards and I don't think they're effective 46:19 What I would like to see more of from venture funds 48:05 Who was Corgi's first believer?","meta_description":"Nico Laqua is the Co-Founder and CEO of Corgi Insurance, an AI-native insurance carrier built for startups. Corgi is the most intense workplace culture in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3198,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/twenty-minute-vc/episodes/20vc-corgi-insurance-the-most-intense-workplace-culture-in-america-7-days-per-week-founder-sleeps-in-office-corgi-cafe-open-24-hours-a-day-60-of-first-30-employees-have-corgi-tattoos-the-journey-from-0-to-2-6bn-valuation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc/20vc-corgi-insurance-the-most-intense-workplace-culture-in-america-7-days-per-week-founder-sleeps-in-office-corgi-cafe-open-24-hours-a-day-60-of-first-30-employees-have-corgi-tattoos-the-journey-from-0-to-2-6bn-valuation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}