Episode 175 - March 6, 2026

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On this week’s episode, Mike Yee, Eric Schmidt, Matt Gline, and Yaron Werber kick off with a discussion on the sector's resilience amid market volatility, highlighting positive capital markets developments. The fourth quarter of 2025 saw approximately $10 billion in follow-on financing, with the first quarter of 2026 approaching about a $2.5 billion IPO run rate, which would be the highest single quarter in the past few years. The co-hosts express cautious optimism, notingthat after a long period where companies were struggling to capitalize themselves, the overall mood has improved. The discussion then shifts to the big news from this week and intellectual property dynamics including the…