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Open Source bi-weekly convo w @altcap & @bgurley on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism
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Joined January 2024
BG2. All things AI w @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥@bg2pod @altcap -- (00:00) Intro (02:28) Microsoft’s Investment in OpenAI (03:19) The Nonprofit Structure and Its Impact (05:46) Health, AI Security, and Resilience (07:50) Models, Exclusivity, and
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HUGE opportunity. RedBalloon is now hiring for these three high-level positions at The Daily Wire: 1. VP of Social Media 2. Producer 3. Counsel, Litigation & News If you’ve got the drive, discipline, and values to match then this is your shot. The Daily Wire isn’t
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For the record: Last week - when I was the first in the world to clip @SamA slapping Brad for having the temerity to ask how a $13 billion business can afford $1.4 TRILLION in investment commitments - I did not intend to topple a domino that would take down the global financial
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$UBER getting real on stock comp. Adjusted ebitda that excludes SBC is a dangerous fiction that leads to excess spending. What you pay your employees is a real expense whether stock, cash, btc or cans of beer. Ignore at your own peril. Flatter is faster. Leaner is better. 🧐
Kudos to @dkhos and the entire $UBER team on moving to guidance metrics that are inclusive of stock-based compensation and dilution: @Uber has done a great job of reducing dilution as they've scaled, but this next step of aligning reported metrics with the actual drivers of LT
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Brad asked Jensen, Sam and Satya all the same question - what is the probability there will there be a data center / compute glut in the next 3-5 yrs? 🧐🧐
Jordi goes tinfoil hat to explain: “GLUT THEORY” Step 1. Get all your suppliers to overbuild compute. Step 2. Pull back on all your spending commitments. Step 3. Buy up cheap compute post-glut. Step 4. Profit.
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Great @BG2Pod pod with @satyanadella and @sama Key quotes: Brad: “If you were doing in excess of $100B of revenue in 2028 or 2029, you’d be positioned to IPO around $1T…” Sam: How about 2027? … --- Satya: “Absolutely $MSFT's Azure could have grown ~41–42% if we’d had
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In a podcast interview with @BG2Pod Sam Altman says OpenAI is doing "well more" revenue than the public $13 billion revenue figure: "Revenue is growing steeply" Later in the segment Alman floats a $100 billion OpenAI revenue target for 2027. https://t.co/OxmupDKChe
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Must listen on the Global AI Arms race & the decision to repeal the Diffusion Rule & sell chips to China. 🇺🇸🚀💥 https://t.co/OQqY23QLUD
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As discussed by @bgurley on pod, must consider the unintended consequences of the American chip ban on China chip & open source development. In short, it backfired. Nvidia went from 95% to 0% market share while China accelerated. 🇺🇸🫡 @ClementDelangue
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