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    <title>The Minutes of Brad Gerstner on microsoft</title>
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      <title>Gerstner notes OpenAI has not built data centers while Microsoft, Oracle, CoreWeave, and SoftBank are building</title>
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      <description>“I haven&#x27;t heard them break ground on any data center. I hear Microsoft building data centers, Oracle building data centers, CoreWeb building data centers, SoftBank building data centers.” — Altimeter Capital</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner states Microsoft has invested $13-14 billion in OpenAI for 27% ownership on a fully diluted basis.</title>
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      <description>“Microsoft started investing in 2019, has invested in the ballpark of $1,314,000,000,000 dollars into OpenAI. And for that, you get 27% of the business ownership in the business on a fully diluted basis.” — BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner calculates Microsoft could reach $7 trillion market cap in ten years growing at just 7% annually.</title>
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      <description>“the largest company, Microsoft, today is like 3 and onetwo trillion. Let&#x27;s say that Microsoft, I don&#x27;t know, doubles in ten years. It would only be growing at 7% per year.” — BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner says Invest America could pass by July 4, 2026, giving 40 million children ownership in Apple, Berksh</title>
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      <description>“If the president signs this into law as part of reconciliation on July 4 of this year, that means on our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, 07/04/2026, we can have 40,000,000 children, 40,000,000 families.” — CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 18:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner argues GPU capex sustainability depends on hyperscalers generating commensurate inference revenues, c</title>
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      <description>“It all comes down ultimately to the revenues that are generated by the people who are making the purchases of the GPUs. Right?” — BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner identifies AWS disadvantage risk if Microsoft&#x27;s OpenAI access proves decisive and Amazon lacks equiva</title>
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      <description>“I think there is a lot of worry about, you know, if Microsoft has access to OpenAI and Amazon doesn&#x27;t, is that going to put them at a disadvantage if open AI is a runaway winner?” — CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner says Microsoft and NVIDIA remain relatively safe investments for AI exposure amid uncertainty.</title>
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      <description>“I think that if you&#x27;re an investor, owning some of the companies that you think you&#x27;re really confident are going to continue to compound and benefit from AI, the Microsofts of the world, the Nvidias of the world, seems to me like a relatively safe place.” — BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 19:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner says he was concerned a year ago that Microsoft&#x27;s OpenAI partnership would cause Amazon customers to</title>
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      <description>“A year ago, I was concerned and some others were whether or not Microsoft&#x27;s early lead because of their partnership with OpenAI would cause a bunch of customers to leave Amazon and go to Azure in order to take advantage of the benefits of OpenAI.” — CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner cites Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta all confirming massive AI inference and future infrastructure inves</title>
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      <description>“It&#x27;s up because Susan Lee from Meta just told us yesterday that they&#x27;re going to make huge future investments in infrastructure, read NVIDIA, in order to support all of these initiatives.” — CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner says Altimeter&#x27;s best AI bets over the past two years were NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Snowflake.</title>
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      <description>“the best bets on AI over the course of the last eighteen months or two years, we were fortunate to be in, were NVIDIA and Microsoft, Snowflake.” — iConnections</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner recounts that Satya Nadella bought his company Faircast for Microsoft in 2008 when running Bing.</title>
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      <description>“The person who bought Ferricast in 2008 for Microsoft was Satya Nadella. Oh, He was running Bing at the time. Right.” — Bloomberg Podcasts</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner says Nadella predicted fifteen years before ChatGPT that Microsoft needed answers, not links, to beat</title>
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      <description>“Fifteen years before ChatGPT started producing answers, Satya knew that that&#x27;s where they had to get to if they were going to leapfrog Google.” — Bloomberg Podcasts</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerstner questions why OpenAI took a dilutive $10B round at roughly $30B valuation.</title>
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      <description>“what was their motivation to take such a dilutive round, know, the 10,000,000,000 at what was the valuation at 30?” — All-In Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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