Jeremy Levine on AI Hype, Market Cycles & Playing the Long Game

How does one of the most established venture capital firms in the world think about the so called “SaaS apocalypse”? Jeremy Levine of Bessemer Venture Partners joins the Newcomer Podcast to discuss the SaaS repricing, the acceleration of AI, and why venture capital remains a long game.We unpack whether SaaS is broken or simply reset after years of excess, and why AI companies are scaling faster than anything we have seen before. Jeremy shares his perspective on foundation model giants like Anthropic, the coming wave of robotics, and the unsolved manipulation problem that could define the next decade.We also discuss scale in venture capital, how AI is changing investing, and why, in Jeremy’s words, this is ultimately a patient person’s game.

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Jeremy Levine on AI Hype, Market Cycles & Playing the Long Game is an episode from Dead Cat by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co.

This episode is 00:55:16 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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