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Oct 29, 2026
Jordi HaysHOST
see.
Jordi HaysHOST
Turner Novak says, I'm genuinely curious.
Jordi HaysHOST
How does a law firm go bankrupt? They literally just sit at computers and charge people one to 10,000 per hour to do things that AI is now automating.
Jordi HaysHOST
No offense at all.
Neal FreymanHOST
The topics that come up at the most local government meetings across the country, data centers number two, pickleball number one.
Neal FreymanHOST
The investor Turner Novak spotted this on the website Hamlet, which tracks town meetings and reveals where people stand on the issues.
Neal FreymanHOST
And where do people stand on pickleball? Overwhelmingly, four.
Neal FreymanHOST
In the 468 places where it came up, more than 1,100 people made comments in favor of their city building pickleball courts, with just 89 speaking out against.
Toby HowellHOST
It mentioned nearly everything but stopped short of explicitly referencing Skynet.
Toby HowellHOST
Big picture, Anthropic sits at the tip of an enormous AI spending pyramid involving chip makers, data centers, energy companies, and startups, but it's entering the market at a shaky time for all of the above.
Toby HowellHOST
Citadel founder Ken Griffin said AI investors are almost certainly in a bubble, while the NASDAQ recently experienced its largest decline since June.
Toby HowellHOST
I think a New York Times article sums it up well.
Erica DorfmanGUEST
So on our corporate position, we were nervous and didn't have any liquidity risk, but we were concerned about our customers' ability to operate their own businesses and where we could potentially help them.
CJ GustafsonHOST
I just keep coming back to the concept of an ecosystem because Michael was on the Peel podcast that Turner Novak hosts.
CJ GustafsonHOST
And he was telling a story that Rex was actually working through some partnership things with SVB at the exact same time and then also had their cash with SVB.
CJ GustafsonHOST
Many times from the outside looking in, people may say, oh, well, you know, it's just a binary decision to do this or do that or take your money out or don't take your money out.
Michael DempseyGUEST
Yeah
Jason YanowitzHOST
... who, um, I think it was Turner Novak posted this on Twitter, and I, I actually have a quote on my computer from it.
Jason YanowitzHOST
Um, uh, "That's my lesson from 2021, because it's not as if the people who were sober and restrained during '21 have gotten a lot of credit from their LPs for having not participated in the circus." So I'm like, is that really what modern venture is today? If there's a speculative frenzy, the rational thing to do, if your goal is to remain a VC, might be to just participate in the frenzy, even if you have deep skepticism about the final outcome.
Jason YanowitzHOST
The reason for this is you need to remain relevant, you need to remain in the business and be able to raise capital.