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Welcome to the Risk Reversal podcast. I am Dan Nathan. I am joined by Jeff Richards. He's managing

partner at notable capital. Jeff, welcome back to the pod. Great to be here. Great to see you.

You look great. You look great too. All right. I'm very fortunate two days in a row. I get to have conversations with what I think are two of the best venture people out there, not only because what you do and the companies you've invested in and your track record and the firms you're involved with, but also your ability to kind of look beyond the private markets and extrapolate some of the things that you see there into the public markets. Obviously, a lot of our listeners are very focused on the public markets.

By the way, I'm just going to give a little plug here yesterday.

I sat down with Josh Wolf from Lux Capital, and we had a great conversation.

So check that out.

What are we going to talk about today, Jeff?

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