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A VC's Playbook For Investing in the AI Bubble with Jeff Richards

RiskReversal Pod

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.7836 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dan Nathan welcomes Notable Capital partner Jeff Richards to discuss how public-market concentration and multiple expansion in mega-cap tech are influencing private-market valuations. Richards explains Notable’s evolution from GGV Capital and its investments across AI and software, then argues that AI adoption is accelerating rapidly, citing publicly reported Anthropic run-rate growth and broad “token path” benefits for infrastructure and select software. He highlights cybersecurity as a key beneficiary as agents increase enterprise risk and could drive continued growth for leaders like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto, while noting stretched valuations and advising patience for pullbacks. The conversation covers Google’s equity raise and Berkshire’s participation, Microsoft’s questions beyond Azure, and why Richards recently bought Meta. They address enterprise “sticker shock” for AI usage, the shift to measuring output, SaaS durability vs. internal builds at startups, talent-driven M&A, rising VC interest in robotics, and potential IPO demand for SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI amid signs of frothy market behavior. —FOLLOW USYouTube: @RiskReversalMediaInstagram: @riskreversalmediaTwitter: @RiskReversalLinkedIn: RiskReversal Media

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All right, welcome to the OK Computer Podcast. I am Dan Nathan. I'm joined again by my very good friend. He is a partner at notable capital out there on the West Coast. Jeff Richards, welcome back to the podcast. Great to be back. All right. You and I haven't done this in a little bit. I think it was late March and prior to that it was January.

1:44.6

So we appreciate your like quarterly schedule and you know there's always a mic and a camera for you.

1:51.0

You and I have so much to talk about. I think regular listeners know one of the reasons why your

1:56.4

pods do so well with us because we have, you know, obviously a lot of folks focused on the

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public markets, but your expertise in the private markets as a long-term investor, but also a

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