Jeff Richards
Menlo Park, California, United States
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5K followers
500+ connections
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My focus is on working with CEOs and entrepreneurs to help build great companies. Having…
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How to Build a Billion-Dollar SMBTech Company: Tips from Product Veteran Gokul Rajaram
How to Build a Billion-Dollar SMBTech Company: Tips from Product Veteran Gokul Rajaram
Gokul Rajaram has spent most of his career thinking about SMBs: designing and building products at Google, Facebook…
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The Reboot of the US Economy will be built around Small Business. The Small Business Reboot will be built on Technology.
The Reboot of the US Economy will be built around Small Business. The Small Business Reboot will be built on Technology.
60% of Americans work for a small business, and small businesses (SMBs) account for 44% of the US economy/GDP. Small…
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Oh What’s That Over There? It’s SMB Tech: $200+ Billion of Market Value Created in the Last 8 Years
Oh What’s That Over There? It’s SMB Tech: $200+ Billion of Market Value Created in the Last 8 Years
There are 30 million small businesses (“SMB,” which stands for Small and Midsized Business) in the United States and…
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The Majority of Top Performing IPOs Were Never Unicorns
The Majority of Top Performing IPOs Were Never Unicorns
It’s true. 75% of the top performing IPOs of the last 4 years went public at a valuation less than $1 billion.
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The People Conundrum
The People Conundrum
I interviewed a C-level candidate earlier this week for one of our portfolio companies. He shared with me two “off the…
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The Great Consumer Upgrade
The Great Consumer Upgrade
It’s happening, it’s bigger than you think, and most Westerners don’t understand it. By Jeff Richards and Hans Tung…
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Our Q2 FY25 earnings are in—and Klaviyo delivered another strong quarter, solidifying our position as the only CRM built for B2C. Revenue grew 32%…
Our Q2 FY25 earnings are in—and Klaviyo delivered another strong quarter, solidifying our position as the only CRM built for B2C. Revenue grew 32%…
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First IPO coverage from the VC side instead of the newsroom, but thrilled to work with some familiar faces ( 👋 Caroline Hyde, Paayal Zaveri) to…
First IPO coverage from the VC side instead of the newsroom, but thrilled to work with some familiar faces ( 👋 Caroline Hyde, Paayal Zaveri) to…
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Looking forward to sharing the story of how Slice is unbundling the franchise model and delivering economies of scale to independents 🍕❤️
Looking forward to sharing the story of how Slice is unbundling the franchise model and delivering economies of scale to independents 🍕❤️
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Dartmouth College
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Activities and Societies: Studied International Government and Business at University of Oxford, Oxford, England (Spring 1993) 4 year letterman, Dartmouth Varsity Basketball
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In honor of fal's Series C funding announcement, here's some bts content from our first Notable Capital podcast with Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven!…
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Proud to see Marathon Management Partners portfolio company Atlas on the Future 50, which is fast becoming a prescient window into greatness. Some…
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29 Fellows. 14 bold ideas. 2-minute pitches. A packed room of investors, founders, and operators. After six weeks of building, these Fellows took…
29 Fellows. 14 bold ideas. 2-minute pitches. A packed room of investors, founders, and operators. After six weeks of building, these Fellows took…
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The hits keep coming from Drata! Product velocity is top notch and customer delight is at an all time high. Great work Adam Markowitz, Troy…
The hits keep coming from Drata! Product velocity is top notch and customer delight is at an all time high. Great work Adam Markowitz, Troy…
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This is unexpectedly one of the best things we've ever done. When we first released our OmniSearch feature in Terial, we didn't think much of it…
This is unexpectedly one of the best things we've ever done. When we first released our OmniSearch feature in Terial, we didn't think much of it…
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We had an all-of-the-above week in City Hall. Whew! We started the week visiting the set for an Indie film that is in the works here, The Steel…
We had an all-of-the-above week in City Hall. Whew! We started the week visiting the set for an Indie film that is in the works here, The Steel…
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We just opened up 8 roles on the Hello Patient team! Must be Austin or NYC based (and will pay for you to relocate) We're hiring: - Full Stack…
We just opened up 8 roles on the Hello Patient team! Must be Austin or NYC based (and will pay for you to relocate) We're hiring: - Full Stack…
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🚀 Today we welcome fal into the Salesforce Ventures family! 🦄 When I first met Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven in early 2024, I was *slightly* 🫢…
🚀 Today we welcome fal into the Salesforce Ventures family! 🦄 When I first met Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven in early 2024, I was *slightly* 🫢…
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AI APPLICATION PLAYBOOK Building a large AI application company is not easy but it’s becoming very clear what to do. Specifically, you need to: a…
AI APPLICATION PLAYBOOK Building a large AI application company is not easy but it’s becoming very clear what to do. Specifically, you need to: a…
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🚨First look: The Drata AI Agent for Vendor Risk Management 🚨 As someone who’s spent years building trust between companies and their customers…
🚨First look: The Drata AI Agent for Vendor Risk Management 🚨 As someone who’s spent years building trust between companies and their customers…
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Thrilled to have opened our latest Mountain Studio in Breckenridge. Grand opening festivities are on for this weekend. Much appreciation for the warm…
Thrilled to have opened our latest Mountain Studio in Breckenridge. Grand opening festivities are on for this weekend. Much appreciation for the warm…
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From day one, Handshake has been about connecting students to opportunity. Now, we’re building on that mission with Handshake AI—equipping the next…
From day one, Handshake has been about connecting students to opportunity. Now, we’re building on that mission with Handshake AI—equipping the next…
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The voice AI landscape is at an inflection point. OpenAI's speech-to-speech model represents a fundamental shift from modular "chained" architecture…
The voice AI landscape is at an inflection point. OpenAI's speech-to-speech model represents a fundamental shift from modular "chained" architecture…
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23, broke, and couch-surfing. 150+ rejections. Doctors said it was dumb. Stanford MBAs passed. My dad bet his retirement. Friends turned down real…
23, broke, and couch-surfing. 150+ rejections. Doctors said it was dumb. Stanford MBAs passed. My dad bet his retirement. Friends turned down real…
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It's one thing to make the CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies list, but to see it on a huge Nasdaq billboard in Times Square? Best way to start the…
It's one thing to make the CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies list, but to see it on a huge Nasdaq billboard in Times Square? Best way to start the…
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Excited to share that we at Notable Capital are leading Echo’s $15M Seed round to build vulnerability-free application infrastructure - from the…
Excited to share that we at Notable Capital are leading Echo’s $15M Seed round to build vulnerability-free application infrastructure - from the…
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