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Gurley states Mag Seven companies formerly generated approximately $3.4 trillion in cash flow before CapEx shift.
“I will tell you, I have a couple different answers to this, which I think are quite interesting. First of all, the Mag seven formerly were creating, I don't know, $3,400,000,000,000 in cash flow.”
Patel predicts Google will eliminate its $100 billion annual cash flow next year by spending everything on AI infrastructure.
“Google will have no cash flow next year because they're they see AI so clearly, and they know that they need to spend every dollar they make on compute,”
Gurley cites Uber burning $2B yearly, now generating over $10B in annual free cash flow.
“Uber's a case where we were burning 2,000,000,000 a year and Dara, you know, has it now generating over 10,000,000,000 a year in free cash flow.”
Baker reports hyperscaler operating cash flow accelerated from $28B to $32B despite unusual legal expenses.
“Operating cash flow from Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon has reported accelerated from '28 to '32. There are some actually pretty big unusual items now like these hyperscalers.”
Baker says adjusting for one-time items shows hyperscaler operating cash flow accelerated from $28B to $35B.
“But there is an unusual amount of onetimers this quarter. And if you adjust for that, we went from 28 to 35. That's that's a material acceleration at this scale.”