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    <description>Everyone on the record about capital: 8 verbatim quotes from 4 people, February 2018 to February 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link…</description>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley says unprecedented capital at every AI project creates uncharted competitive territory.</title>
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      <description>“now we&#x27;re in a weird world where the amount of money that gets thrown at every project, I kind of lived through this with Uber Lyft because both companies had billions and billions of dollars” — Bill Gurley, Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>David Friedberg: Friedberg reports that 4,000 family offices have been opened in Singapore in the last ten yea</title>
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      <description>“4,000 family offices have been opened in the last ten years or so in Singapore. Underestimate, probably. Yes.” — David Friedberg, Network State Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Marc Rowan: Rowan says private market capital enables companies to invest long-term without quarterly pressure</title>
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      <description>“I think what we&#x27;re seeing is the availability of capital in private markets is allowing companies to do a series of things, to invest for the long term, not to be driven by quarterly earnings, and to obtain massive amounts of debt and equity to finance their business plan without accessing public markets.” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley estimates zombie unicorns have collectively raised $300 billion in capital.</title>
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      <description>“Yeah. Seems like they&#x27;ve raised somewhere between 2 and 300,000,000 each. And so you roll all that up, it&#x27;s 300,000,000,000.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: The Middle East, the sovereign wealth funds in Singapore and and Nordics and, you know, Canadian</title>
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      <description>“The Middle East, the sovereign wealth funds in Singapore and and Nordics and, you know, Canadian pension fund and all these folks.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner identifies deep private capital from sovereign wealth funds as structural change preve</title>
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      <description>“And if you look at the private market alternatives for them for capital, we didn&#x27;t have sovereign wealth funds that were writing multi billion dollar checks at that point in time.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley states 2020 average IPO was underpriced by 50 percent, a massive cost of capital.</title>
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      <description>“In 2020, the average IPO was underpriced by 50%. You go to any finance school, they tell you you should care about the cost of capital. They teach you about weighted average cost of capital.” — Bill Gurley, Axios</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley cites Druckenmiller&#x27;s analogy that low interest rates drive unlimited speculation with oth</title>
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      <description>“Drucker Miller just, you know, who&#x27;s someone that&#x27;s made a name in macro investing says, if you give, you know, Texas oilman the ability to drill holes with someone else&#x27;s money, they&#x27;ll drill as many as you possibly can.” — Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Tech</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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