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From the heart of where innovation, money, and power collide,

in Silicon Valley and beyond,

this is Bloomberg Technology with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow.

Thank you. and Ed Lovlo.

Welcome to a special edition of Bluebeg Technology. I'm Caroline Hyde, right here in Las Vegas.

We are live from the Human X AI Conference.

And we're going to be talking to some of the biggest industry leaders and decision makers in the AI space throughout this next hour.

As you can see, a key lineup of expertise.

But let's move on to also the discussion of how the public markets feed

into the private markets. How does one think about the startup space as we contend with this

growth anxiety, as we contend with tariff anxiety? Let's bring in Alfred Lynn. Sequoia Capital

Partner, someone who thinks about seed, about early stage investment, has been at the forefront

of artificial intelligence investment before many others. And Alfred, look, how does the public

market feed into the private market from your perspective right now? Well, Caroline, thank you

for having me on the show. This is a great honor to be here. To answer your question directly,

we just think about building great companies and partnering with great founders and helping them from IDEA to IPO and beyond.

So in terms of thinking about the public markets, we just think about much, much longer term.

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