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    <title>The Minutes of Bill Gurley on meta</title>
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    <description>Everything Bill Gurley has said on meta: 4 verbatim quotes between January 2023 and August 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came…</description>
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      <title>Gurley identifies Meta agreeing to cover debt failure without owning the debt as classic off-balance-sheet fin</title>
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      <description>“Meta agreed to pay for the failure of debt on a facility where they don&#x27;t own the debt. You know? And to me, that&#x27;s classic off balance sheet financing.” — Bg2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gurley describes Meta&#x27;s Scale AI acquisition structure: 49% stake for $15B at $30B valuation to avoid regulato</title>
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      <description>“Meta has done this interesting structured deal, they&#x27;re buying 49% of the company, they&#x27;re paying a $30,000,000,000 valuation so they&#x27;re paying effectively 15,000,000,000, they&#x27;re avoiding regulatory scrutiny, the CEO of scale is going to help lead efforts at Meta.” — BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gurley believes Facebook&#x27;s stock would double if they shut down VR, which costs $5-10 billion annually.</title>
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      <description>“Wall Street&#x27;s on my side on this one. I think if they shut down the VR effort, not only will the profitability would soar because they&#x27;re spending real money, like 5 to 10,000,000,000 a” — Tim Ferriss</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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