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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says the US is financing nearly a trillion dollars in annual AI capex privately, unlik</title>
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      <description>“I think it&#x27;s extraordinary that we&#x27;re financing almost a trillion dollars of capex a year to build out the the entire AI infrastructure without any money from the US government.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley argues Microsoft&#x27;s late nineties regulatory threat enabled Amazon and Google to emerge.</title>
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      <description>“I think that had Microsoft not been under threat in the late nineties, you may not have seen Amazon or Google or a lot of companies you may not have seen.” — Bill Gurley, Prof G Markets</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley explains Microsoft&#x27;s OpenAI deal involves cashless revenue through cloud credits for equit</title>
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      <description>“So you get equity for credits and then those credits are used to run workloads on Azure. That is cashless revenue for Microsoft.” — Bill Gurley, Prof G Markets</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley cites Dan Gilbert who became more known for side hustles than core jobs, creating Microsof</title>
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      <description>“In almost every case, he ended up becoming known more for the side hustle than the core job.” — Bill Gurley, Afford Anything Podcast</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley warns Microsoft and Google&#x27;s AI investments may repeat IBM&#x27;s mistake of empowering a futur</title>
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      <description>“I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re dependent on the partner anymore, and it harkens back in my brain to IBM letting Microsoft put the OS inside their PC.” — Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Podcasts</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley says Nadella diagnosed Microsoft as a know-it-all culture and transformed it into a learn-</title>
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      <description>“And he said, he told everyone we&#x27;re gonna change it from a know it all culture to a learn it all culture.” — Bill Gurley, Brew Markets</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner notes OpenAI has not built data centers while Microsoft, Oracle, CoreWeave, and SoftBa</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.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: Patel estimates Microsoft&#x27;s 2028 capacity is three and a half gigawatts lower than forecasted due</title>
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      <description>“And then the other one is, given our estimates on what your capacity is in 2028, is three and a half gigawatts lower? Sure, you could have dedicated that to OpenAI training and inference capacity.” — Dylan Patel, Dwarkesh Patel</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner cites Microsoft&#x27;s $400 billion in remaining performance obligations as booked business</title>
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      <description>“you talked about 400,000,000,000 it&#x27;s an incredible number, of remaining performance obligations last night. You said that, you know, that&#x27;s your booked business today. It&#x27;ll surely go up tomorrow as sales continue to come in.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner states Microsoft has invested $13-14 billion in OpenAI for 27% ownership on a fully di</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.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner states Microsoft has invested $13-14 billion in OpenAI for 27% ownership on a fully di</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.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley argues Microsoft&#x27;s in-kind OpenAI investment creates cashless revenue on income statements</title>
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      <description>“That&#x27;s a rev that&#x27;s a cashless transaction. Like, there&#x27;s no cash, but it becomes an income statement revenue item for Microsoft. And I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s ideal from an economic standpoint.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley criticizes Microsoft-OpenAI deal where credits become revenue without cash changing hands.</title>
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      <description>“That&#x27;s a rev that&#x27;s a cashless transaction. Like, there&#x27;s no cash, but it becomes an income statement revenue item for Microsoft.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: Patel explains Microsoft&#x27;s hesitation: OpenAI has only $14 billion ARR but wants $300 billion in</title>
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      <description>“How are you gonna how are you gonna pay for this? By the end of the year, it&#x27;s like 14 right now. Right? Billion dollars on an ARR basis.” — Dylan Patel, David Ondrej</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner calculates Microsoft could reach $7 trillion market cap in ten years growing at just 7</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.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner calculates Microsoft could reach $7 trillion market cap in ten years growing at just 7</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.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says Invest America could pass by July 4, 2026, giving 40 million children ownership i</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.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 18:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley notes uncertainty around whether Microsoft will convert OpenAI profit rights to equity.</title>
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      <description>“And so they also we don&#x27;t know. You know, it it sounds like OpenEye wants them to convert to equity, and we have no idea whether they&#x27;re willing to do that or not.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley notes Microsoft has profit rights up to $90 billion, unprecedented in any prior deal.</title>
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      <description>“They have profit rights up to, like, $90,000,000,000. No one&#x27;s ever signed a piece of paper like that before.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Television</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley says the Microsoft-OpenAI deal with $90 billion profit rights is one of the most complex e</title>
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      <description>“The deal between Microsoft and OpenAI, as it&#x27;s been reported, once again, I&#x27;ve never seen it. Sounds like one of the more complex deals of all time. They have profit rights up to, like, $90,000,000,000.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Television</description>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley calls the Microsoft-OpenAI deal one of the most complex deals of all time.</title>
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      <description>“The deal between Microsoft and OpenAI, as it&#x27;s been reported, once again, I&#x27;ve never seen it. Sounds like one of the more complex deals of all time.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Television</description>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner argues GPU capex sustainability depends on hyperscalers generating commensurate infere</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?” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley questions whether AI-first products could make existing infrastructure like Excel spreadsh</title>
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      <description>“Do you worry that someone might think kind of first principles AI from ground up and that some of the infrastructure say in an Excel spreadsheet isn&#x27;t necessary to know if you did an AI first product.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley calls Nadella possibly the best CEO hire of all time, citing trillion-dollar value creatio</title>
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      <description>“I think that it&#x27;s definitive that you may be the best CEO hire of all time. I mean, trillion is unmatched.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner reports Microsoft expects Azure revenue to accelerate despite already growing 34% on a</title>
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      <description>“Microsoft, which is on $66,000,000,000 run rate at Azure, has said they expect q one and q two Azure revenue to accelerate. Think about that, Bill. Azure is growing at 34% on a $66,000,000,000 base,” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner reports Microsoft expects Azure revenue to accelerate despite already growing 34% on a</title>
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      <description>“Microsoft, which is on $66,000,000,000 run rate at Azure, has said they expect q one and q two Azure revenue to accelerate. Think about that, Bill. Azure is growing at 34% on a $66,000,000,000 base,” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: And so the scale that they wanna reach to, 1.5 gigawatts in two and a half years in one site. Now</title>
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      <description>“And so the scale that they wanna reach to, 1.5 gigawatts in two and a half years in one site. Now the interesting thing is that each GPU takes roughly 1,000 watts to 1,400 watts.” — Dylan Patel, Scaling Intelligence</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: Patel reports Microsoft plans 1.5 gigawatts in one site within two and a half years across four 3</title>
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      <description>“And so the scale that they wanna reach to, 1.5 gigawatts in two and a half years in one site.” — Dylan Patel, Scaling Intelligence</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: Patel describes Microsoft&#x27;s shift from 48-megawatt buildings to 300-megawatt AI-specific data cen</title>
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      <description>“Here you can see that same data center, that same type of data center vertically. And that&#x27;s 48 megawatts, or 57, And then this data center center is like 300 megawatts.” — Dylan Patel, Scaling Intelligence</description>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: Patel predicts Microsoft/OpenAI will have a million H100-equivalent chips in a single cluster by</title>
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      <description>“three hundred to, like, seven 500,000, let&#x27;s say, but those GPUs are two to three x faster, right, versus the 100 k cluster.” — Dylan Patel, Dwarkesh Patel</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dylan Patel: Patel says Microsoft and OpenAI have 500,000 GB200 GPUs totaling one gigawatt coming online next</title>
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      <description>“Microsoft slash OpenAI slash their partners for them. And then and then potentially even more, 500 k GB two hundreds, right, is a gigawatt. Right? And that&#x27;s, like, online next year.” — Dylan Patel, Dwarkesh Patel</description>
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      <description>“Amazon is buying this nuclear powered Talon data center facility, and now Microsoft this week announces with CEG that they&#x27;re going to bring 3 Mile Island out of retirement.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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      <description>“I could imagine if you had four more reactors sitting here, right, if you could land them at the right price, you could have one reactor for Meta, one for Amazon, one for Microsoft, one for Nvidia, you could have the data center sitting right next to them.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner notes Satya called AI a supply-driven wave with much experimental work, creating reset</title>
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      <description>“Satya very quickly said this is a supply driven wave. And I think up to date, that is true. We&#x27;re we&#x27;re building ahead of demand.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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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.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television</description>
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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.” — Brad Gerstner, iConnections</description>
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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.” — Brad Gerstner, iConnections</description>
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      <description>“We expect our forecast is that Microsoft and Amazon, you know, Snowflake, they&#x27;ll all accelerate their growth rates this year. Right?” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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      <description>“We expect our forecast is that Microsoft and Amazon, you know, Snowflake, they&#x27;ll all accelerate their growth rates this year. Right?” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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      <description>“I do think that it is a really important thing that you&#x27;re pointing out, which is at a very minimum, I think we can say that the participation of MANG, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Google, is distorting the price in the market in a way that wouldn&#x27;t occur if it was all arm&#x27;s length transaction with financial investors.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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      <description>“we have this explosion in venture capital investing coming out of four companies, right? He called them MANG. Microsoft, Amazon, know, Nvidia and Google.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod</description>
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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.” — Brad Gerstner, Bloomberg Podcasts</description>
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      <description>“At 10 years old, you&#x27;ll have $12,000 in that account. You see that you own a little bit of Tesla, of of Microsoft, of UnitedHealthcare.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television</description>
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      <description>“Satya, the CEO of Microsoft, who I saw last week, said to me that Copilot is the fastest growing product in the history of Microsoft.” — Brad Gerstner, FII Institute</description>
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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?” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast</description>
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      <description>“If they had been able to tie the browser to search the way they did, the way they went after Netscape aggressively, I think they would have succeeded. They&#x27;re really good at that stuff.” — Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Tech</description>
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