{"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: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile","slug":"20vc-the-best-ai-companies-have-unique-data-acquisition-strategies-will-simile-kill-kalshi-polymarkets-and-nasdaq-how-to-sign-fortune-500-companies-as-customers-in-weeks-with-joon-sung-park-simile","published_at":"2026-08-01T07:07:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc/20vc-the-best-ai-companies-have-unique-data-acquisition-strategies-will-simile-kill-kalshi-polymarkets-and-nasdaq-how-to-sign-fortune-500-companies-as-customers-in-weeks-with-joon-sung-park-simile","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/twenty-minute-vc","url":"https://thetwentyminutevc.libsyn.com/20vc-the-best-ai-companies-have-unique-data-acquisition-strategies-will-simile-kill-kalshi-polymarkets-and-nasdaq-how-to-sign-fortune-500-companies-as-customers-in-weeks-with-joon-sung-park-simile","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thetwentyminutevc/20Sales__Joon_Sung_Park__Simile.mp3?dest-id=240976","summary":"Joon Sung Park is the Founder and CEO of Simile, the AI simulation company building foundation models of human behaviour; allowing companies to test how real people may think, decide and act before making a decision in the real world. Simile has now raised $300 million in total, including a $200 million Series B announced last week at a $2 billion valuation, led by Greenoaks and Index Ventures. AGENDA: 00:00 We Will Pay $100M for a Single Query on Some Models 10:00 Why Stock Markets May Not Exist in 5 Years Time 15:00 The Best Companies All Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies 19:00 The Best AI Companies Have Clear and Fast Reward Functions 24:00 How We Sign Fortune 500 Companies for $10M Contracts in Weeks 32:00 Does Similie Kill Kalshi and Polymarket? Prediction vs Changing the Future 42:00 Inside Similie's $300M Raise; What Every Founder Needs to Know","meta_description":"Joon Sung Park is the Founder and CEO of Simile, the AI simulation company building foundation models of human behaviour; allowing companies to test how r…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3821,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/twenty-minute-vc/episodes/20vc-the-best-ai-companies-have-unique-data-acquisition-strategies-will-simile-kill-kalshi-polymarkets-and-nasdaq-how-to-sign-fortune-500-companies-as-customers-in-weeks-with-joon-sung-park-simile/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-the-best-ai-companies-have-unique-data-acquisition-strategies-will-simile-kill-kalshi-polymarkets-and-nasdaq-how-to-sign-fortune-500-companies-as-customers-in-weeks-with-joon-sung-park-simile.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}