Big Tech’s AI Vibe Shift | Prof G Markets
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Today's number, $5,923.
That's the price of the cheapest ticket
to the Super Bowl this year. Ed, I don't
even watch the game. I watch for the
commercials. My favorite commercial,
Cardi B's Wet Ass Pepsi.
>> What's going on, Ed?
>> I'm doing very well. It's still freezing
cold here. It's unbelievable. Mountains
of snow on the streets of New York. It's
It's pretty insane. How are you doing?
>> I'm good. I'm in Jackson Hall. I spoke
at one of these master another master of
the universe conference and decided to
stay here and ski. When I say ski, I
mean sit inside a beautiful room and do
podcasts all [ __ ] day long.
>> Just to confirm you you I know you
already did one. Is it two in Jackson
Hall or is it just the one and you're
there for a for a few days?
>> No, it was just the one. I've done a
bunch of meeting though cuz one of the
great things about having the footprint
that I enjoy um is if you post where you
are, people like you haven't heard from
like, "Oh, remember me? We played
basketball together in the 11th grade.
You want to have coffee? I'm like, no,
but it's good to hear from you. Um,
people, it's so funny. I was out last
night and a bunch of people came over
and the people I with are like, "Do
people come up to you?" I'm like, "Yeah,
they come up to me a lot and they say,
why do you think that is?" It's because
everyone assumes I'm so [ __ ] pathetic
that they're doing me a favor coming up
and saying, "Hi." Everyone assumes that
I'm so lonely and so desperate and
depressed and have so few friends that
people don't come up to me and say I
mean they come up and they're very nice
but they're more like do you want to
join us? Are you okay?
So it's
>> I highly highly doubt that.
>> It's a different type of approach. But
anyways, I'm here in Jackson Hole. It is
it is beautiful.
>> Are you skiing?
>> No, I'm all about injury. The only time
I ski now is with my boys because I'm
all about injury prevention.
Uh, but I'm going to go snowshoeing. I'm
officially an old man. In between World
War II documentaries, I'm going to go
snowshoeing.
>> You're not skiing because you're afraid
of getting injured. Really? It's a
That's a little bit of a lame excuse. I
I just got to be real with you.
>> I don't like the outdoors and I
especially hate skiing.
>> Okay, fair.
>> I can't stand The reason I ski is I want
to be able to trap my boys on a mountain
for four or five hours where they have
to talk to me.
>> Yes.
>> And so I ski I maintain I'm I'm also not
very good at it. Are you a good skier?
I'm a decent skier. Yeah. I'm not I'm
not amazing, but I'm okay.
>> I'm not. And their mother is such an
extraordinarily beautiful skier. I
remember the first time I saw her ski, I
was like, "Wow, that's amazing.
>> It is very cool." And people are good at
skiing.
>> And she grew up very kind of lower
middle class, middle class in Poland.
And she said her parents just always put
her on skis two or three weeks a year.
And I said, "We got to do that for our
boys." But unfortunately, when you do
that, you have to actually ski with
them. So, but no, if I if I don't I
would much ra I'm sitting in here. I'm
going to go work out. I might, you know,
do one of these weird like hot stone
wrecky massage treatments with some dude
with beads who's going to talk to me
about my chakra. And I like that [ __ ]
Now I'm turning into like the white
women of wine. I'm just into the spa.
Um, and I'll just hang on. We'll go for
a really nice dinner. But here I am
stuck in the middle with you. Anyways,
are you resisting and unsubscribing, Ed?
Isn't that next month?
>> Next month, [ __ ] Do you even follow
anything I do? Starting on Sunday, and I
know Ed's very interested. We're trying
to engage in a targeted national
economic strike against big tech and the
companies enabling ICE and the Trump
administration's policy of terror and
anxiety come to you in your own town.
And we're putting on a site listing all
these companies that might move the S&P.
Trump responds to markets, not to
protests or to political pressure. He
responds to markets. And we think we
found a way to press on the soft tissue
of the markets and that is to go after
these big tech firms by just
unsubscribing.
Um, we talked about this in the last
one, but the site goes live on Sunday.
We think it's we think we're on to
something in terms of a low tax,
loweffort way to perform what is the
most radical act in a capitalist society
and that is not participation. But I've
been spending a lot of time on it, Ed.
People have called challenge on my
[ __ ] and said the music needs to
match the words. What are you actually
doing
>> now? You have to do something.
>> I know. I hate that. I hate that. I'd
rather just [ __ ] from the I'd rather
just heckle from the cheap seats. Ed,
>> can we
just talk about
>> Can I just pretend to be concerned?
>> This is an outrage. Off to off to
Jackson Hoer game.
Gosh. Most of the Magnificent 7 reported
earnings last week. Overall, it was a
strong quarter with Microsoft, Meta, and
Apple all beating expectations on the
top and bottom lines. However, the
reactions from the market have been not
as consistent. So, we're going to go
through all of these earnings, Scott,
see what you make of them. Uh, and I
think that we should probably start with
Meta. Fourth quarter sales rose 24% from
a year earlier. Also issued strong than
expected sales guidance for the current
quarter. stock rose as much as 10%.
So that has been the biggest performer.
Um I think you know a few things stand
out to me about the the Meta earnings. I
mean one is as we'll see the earnings
were pretty similar to what Microsoft
reported but it was a tale of two stocks
here because Meta rose around 10%
Microsoft fell around 10%. Microsoft
wiped out nearly half a trillion dollars
in value. So I think the big question
here is what was different about Meta
and I think the thing you have to sort
of look at here is this unbelievable
revenue growth of 24% $60 billion in
revenue um over the year. So that is
just a staggering
um increase from what we've seen before.
And I think what Zuckerberg is basically
proving is that AI is turbocharging the
business. And now investors are
realizing, okay, this guy probably knows
what he's doing. We could also talk
about the capex which exploded or at
least the guidance exploded 115 to 135
billion in capex guidance for 2026 up
60% from last year. He's doubling down
on AI. Last year people were scared
about that. Now investors decide
actually we trust this guy. Scott, any
initial reactions to Meta and then we'll
get into the other earnings as well.
>> Well, it appears that it's better to be
in the business of leveraging AI than in
the business of AI. And there's few
companies that can boast that they have
adopted to greater effectiveness AI than
Meta right now. Um the users clicked on
Facebook ads 3 and a half% more often
this quarter and boosted conversions on
Instagram by 1%.
And the number you talked about, they
increased, what was it? They increased
their revenues 23%.
>> 24%.
>> I mean on on that number on that topline
number what I would have loved to have
seen is I don't think they did it with
many more employees.
So, you know, they are kind of I mean,
quite frankly, anyone who's on Instagram
or on Rails or on threads understands
the power of AI because I keep getting
served with more and more relevant I
mean almost kind of those eerie moments
where I'm talking about doing a trip to,
you know, DC with my kids and I start
getting served ads by the park high at
DC and it's like, who are they? You
know, it just it's incredible how
they've been leveraging AI. Microsoft,
it was that, and you said this, that the
new expectation is that you beat
expectations and they only met
expectations. So, it wasn't, you know,
they took the stock down 10%. Which I
I'm not entirely sure I understand.
Maybe it's cuz they're just got out over
their skis, but the metal one really
struck me. Any thoughts on Microsoft,
Ed?
>> Yeah, Microsoft is pretty staggering. um
you know $440 billion in market value
just erased pretty much overnight after
they I mean you say met expectations
which is more accurate they beat by like
marginally I mean revenue was up 17%. I
think saying they met expectations is
the right characterization.
Um I think two issues for Microsoft. One
is that Azure the the cloud growth this
is all that investors really care about
because this is representative of how uh
how growthy is your AI business. It grew
39%. I still think that's a pretty big
number. It also beat expectations or as
you say met expectations but it's
slightly lower than the previous
quarter. So I think investors are kind
of upset about that. I think maybe in
comparison to Meta um they see the
growth of that business and they don't
like that. But I think the big problem I
would estimate and we'll see over the
coming weeks uh is their RPO number,
their remaining performance obligations,
their future future commercial bookings.
Basically this is how much revenue they
have in the in the pipeline. the
contracts they've secured which they're
going to see in the income statement uh
in the next few quarters. It grew
dramatically to $625 billion. So that's
great news. However, 45%
of that backlog is attributable to Open
AI. I think investors have decided what
we have been saying for a long time,
which is you can't really trust this
company if you're making $1.5 trillion
in spending commitments all over the
place.
um and you're only making generating $13
billion in revenue and you're going out
there and you're kind of struggling to
raise not struggling to raise but
they're raising they're talking about
raising you know hundred billion but
that that doesn't cut it there's so many
so much money they have to spend on
these contracts in the next few years
and basically Microsoft is coming out
there there and saying hey we have a
bunch of growth opportunity coming down
the pike uh but half of it is going to
come from open AI and it appears that
investors are saying uh we call
[ __ ] We don't think that that
revenue is actually going to come in. I
would guess that that is the main
concern. I think there's the additional
concern that compounds the mistrust in
OpenAI which is where is that revenue
actually coming from? Well, it's not
coming from their profits. This is not a
profitable business. It's coming from
Microsoft. Microsoft is the main
investor in OpenAI. So, this is just the
circular transaction happening again.
Microsoft invest and then it comes back
to Microsoft in the form of these
remaining performance obligations which
makes it doubly concerning. So I think
these are this is the investor response.
People are coming around and saying you
know this open AI thing
this has gone a little a little too far
at this point. And so if you come out
and say yeah we've got all this money
coming in but most of it's open AI we're
not going to take it all too seriously.
I see a theme emerging where it's better
to draft off of the AI wars in terms of
capital expenditure than to be on the
front lines. And that is it feels like
people are increasingly skeptical that
uh Open AI is going to be able to
justify an $850 billion valuation much
less the trillion or trillion half
dollar valuation that's been floated for
a public offering. and that there's, you
know, only about three or five percent
of its users actually upgrade to a paid
subscription and it looks like they're
being bested by anthropic in the
enterprise market. So that's beginning
to infect Microsoft who again is looking
to similar to the way that Tesla is
claiming Optimus robots are going to be
the growth vehicle being reliant or
claiming that you can justify a $4
trillion valuation because of all the
additional profits and revenues to your
point you're going to get from your
investment or your relationship with
Open AI that looks like there's no way
it can meet its expectations is a
dangerous place to be. At the same time,
when you're a company like Meta or even
I would argue a company like Whimo
where you're leveraging AI, you're
you're drafting off of or freewriting
off of other people's cheap capital and
massive investments. I mean, even Apple,
I think Apple will probably be a
beneficiary of AI because what they'll
do is similar to avoiding the search
wars, they'll stay out of it and they'll
start figuring out ways to provide
licensing agreements or access to the
billing consumers. But it feels like the
new kind of Libus test is all right.
It's great to be in AI, but your
valuations have gotten out in front of
your skis and you're spending so much
money that the sweet spot is to leverage
AI and leverage the falling price and
inference and show that you know how to
leverage AI see above, you know, Meta's
targeting capabilities. Can we talk
about Tesla for a second, Ed?
>> Yeah, we should talk about Tesla. I mean
ju just before we move on to Tesla, I
would just add one caveat which is that
Meta is spending like crazy on AI. I
mean that capex was unbelievable. But I
think that to your point what investors
want to see is like show us that you
have leveraged AI, show us that there's
real money coming in. Meta was able to
do that which gives them the option to
go out and spend like crazy. That could
reverse, you know, on a dime and we've
seen this continue to happen over the
past year. I think what we're
increasingly seeing in the AI wars is
this is this is a a war of vibes, a
narrative. This is all about like does
the market generally agree that you know
what you're doing with AI and are you
associating with the right people. Last
year associations with open AI was a
vibe to the upside. Now it's reversed.
It's a vibe to the downside. I think
it's it's highly possible that that vibe
could keep whipsing back and forth, but
there is no question the vibe is
massively important to valuations right
now. It's literally moving hundreds of
billions of dollars at a time.
>> Well, just just just to use an acronym
here, ROI, right? It's all about ROI to
some extent. And there's a a raft of new
unicorns and it's an exciting part of
the economy and we got to give AI, you
know, its credit. it there it's created
an ecosystem of companies that put a
thick layer of innovation on top of
inference and then sell into niche niche
you know uh products and services into
into specific sectors and they're
basically free riding off of the massive
the massive eye right and they get a big
return because they can free ride and
have small eye themselves which makes
the ROI bigger and then there's
companies that are huge on the eye but
it's not entirely clear what the R is I
would put open AI high in that bucket.
It's like it's very hard to figure out
how all of this spending and these
trillion dollar commitments where the R
is going to be big enough. But the sweet
spot is companies that have huge R and
huge I because they're seen as pulling
away from everybody else but also are
showing the massive kind of return. And
right now that's meta huge capbacks can
make that capback so they can pull ahead
of Pinterest didn't lay off people
because of AI efficiency. to laid off
people because they can't compete with
um a company like Meta and in addition
it's showing huge Rs. So the sweet spot
that creates, you know, what might be
the most valuable company in the world
at some point is enormous R and enormous
I so to speak. Tesla.
>> Tesla.
>> Tesla. Oh my gosh, I love that he's
trying to distract. Talk about weapons
of mass distraction on the on the
earnings call. I don't know if you saw
this. Musk updated investors on Tesla's
new mission, which is open quote
>> to build a world of amazing abundance.
and we're going to build a world of
amazing
abundance. I I would translate that into
an abundance of ketamine before the
earnings call. He also focused on
Tesla's humanoid robot product, Optimus.
Sales of the robot are expected to begin
in 2027. Musk mentioned Optimus 28 times
on the earnings call. I'm I'm shocked he
didn't threaten to bomb Iran at this
point to distract from the fact that the
Cybert truck is a total [ __ ] disaster
and revenues were actually down.
Automotive revenues declined 10% yearon
year and their pre-tax profit margins in
2025 were about 6% less than half as
much as Toyota's. Just to give you a
sense for what is I would say with the
exception of Palanteer the most
overvalued company in the world. Uh
Tesla trades now at 400 times earnings.
Toyota which in my view is the best
managed automotive company in the world
trades at 10 times earnings. Your
thoughts? I would love to know if there
have been companies in history and that
I would go with large cap companies in
history that have traded at near 400
times earnings and yet their revenue has
been in decline for not just multiple
quarters but going getting on to
multiple years now. I mean that is just
unbelievable the fact that revenue the
stock actually jumped in after hours
then it came down. People seem to kind
of, I guess, come to their senses a
little bit, but revenue was down 3%
year-over-year.
And yet, this is the company of the
future. It's a declining business.
>> It's a declining business, trading at
400 times earnings.
>> And we can just go through more of the
statistics. I mean, there's no question
this was a horrific year for Tesla.
>> Operating margins down, everything.
>> Yes. Free cash flow down 30%
year-over-year. Net income down 61%
year-over-year. Also, a lot of the
reason why they're staying afloat is
because of these regulatory credits
where they registered half a billion
dollars because of these regulatory
credits. Without them, profit would have
fallen another 65%. And of course, the
big beautiful bill is going to get rid
of those regul regulatory credits going
forward. But the genius, and I mean you
call his bluff, and so do I, and I think
so do many investors, but the market
seems to believe it. The genius is Elon
has been able to just launder in a new
future growth project every few years to
keep the multiple afloat. He's not he's
not keeping this business or this
valuation up through fundamentals. He's
decided he doesn't even care about that.
The car sales are done, whatever. But
he's laundering in his next project,
which is the Optimus, which as you say,
he mentioned 28 times on the earnings
call. He said he's going to stop
producing the Model S and the Model X
because he's going to increase the
production capacity for these humanoid
robots. So, that's one piece. And then
there are these rumors out or at least
Bloomberg has been reporting this that
he's considering merging Tesla with
SpaceX and also merging Tesla with XAI
and also investing having Tesla invest
$2 billion into XAI. So then the stock
goes up again on that news. So this guy
is just like a a magician of I guess
brand laundering would be perhaps sort
of maybe multiple laundering, valuation
laundering. I'm not sure what exactly
what it is, but it's working because
somehow this business is in decline and
yet the markets are saying, "Yeah, it's
okay. We've got the we got the robots
coming later. We got the AI coming
later. It'll be fine."
>> I think he's going to attach every
anchor to the the ship here that is
SpaceX. I think he's going to roll it
all up into one kind of AI story about
space, communications, connectivity,
self-driving cars, robots, and talk
about a world of abundance where you can
get to where you need to be faster,
communicate with people faster, new
ideas, new communication,
um, new means of of self-expression,
unlimited abundant. I think it's going
to turn into this giant kind of tomorrow
belongs to me narrative with all these
granted amazing products and companies
and the ones that aren't working he'll
roll up into the ones that are working
>> right
>> u but I think this has been his plan all
along it's you're right it's a ton of
jazz hands it's trying to sell the
narrative over the numbers and
constantly get people to look away from
the numbers
>> so they're focused on the narrative and
also the narrative is very exciting
space launch capabilities
you know, huge communications platform,
self-driving cars, electric EVs. I mean,
it's like every 8-year-old's dream is
this company, you know, or every
8-year-old boy's dream is this company.
And then never lets never lets the
company settle in enough to let analysts
say, "Okay, this is what this company
is, and this is the multiple it should
be trading at or the range of the
multiple it should be trading at." I
think it's so true that there's a
benefit to having analysts and
commentators and investors and observers
just arguing over what actually is the
company.
>> Yeah. Just whips it around.
>> Yeah. And it gives it this this air of
like it's so mysterious. We don't even
know what it is. How do you even define
it? You can't even pin it down.
>> You just described Palunteer.
>> Exactly. Palanteer as well.
>> And it's like it's almost as if that's
what you need to do as a CEO these days
if you want to get that extraordinary
multiple. you have to just sort of
obiscate around this. You you can't
define what our company does. Our
company does so many different things.
We're doing all these things out in the
future. You don't you don't even know
what we're doing. And then we all
quibble in the comments about what is
Tesla. Is it a car company? Is it not a
car company? And ultimately, I think it
translates to an extraordinary multiple.
I find it ridiculous, but I mean, I
guess give the guy credit because it's
working. He's selling that narrative and
it's working well.
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We're back with Profy Markets. We talk
about Apple. Uh not that much
interesting here. Stock is up a little
bit around 1% better than expected
earnings. Revenue was up 16% which is
pretty impressive. Um beat on EPS. I
think, you know, I think one analysis
that we found kind of interesting that
says something about Apple, I I'm not
particularly bullish on Apple, as you
probably know, um, but this was an
analysis from Sherwood. They got this
data from the Consumer Intelligence
Research Report, which found that people
aren't buying iPhones for the new
features of the iPhone. In fact, that
number is only 14%.
Everyone is buying an iPhone either
because their iPhone is old or because
their iPhone is lost or it's broken. And
they they lay out these numbers. It
translates to around 70% of new iPhone
purchases are for one of those two
reasons. And for me, I mean, I I think
Apple has gotten so entrenched in our
society as a product that the iPhone has
at least. And it is impressive that they
are growing sales, but in the long term,
I don't think it's very exciting what
they're doing. And I think the market's
response kind of reflects that. It's
like, "Yep, you did well. You're doing
things right. Congrats, and we're going
to reward you with, you know, a 1% bump
in the stock. I'm not going to give you
a super extraordinary multiple right
now, but, you know, things are going
well." I mean, it seems that Apple is
more and more becoming a a legacy uh
tech company and it seems to be
reflected in in in the numbers and also
uh in the way they're handling the
business. But any reactions from you?
>> I think you're being a little unfair. I
I was actually I was actually shocked
that they grew their revenues 16%. I
mean, that's on a company of this
revenue base, 16% is real.
>> Yeah.
>> And it's actually its fastest quarterly
growth in more than four years. So it
looks like growth has kind of revved up
again and its earnings per share
increased 19%. I mean there's that's an
incredible quarter for a company this
size and that's despite a pretty
lackluster AI story. Uh the growth came
from as you mentioned better than
expected iPhone sales and record
services revenues which have you know
greater margins and hardware. Um so I
was I I would say the topline number
surprised me more than any other
company. 16% on this company is I mean
basically they grew this company you
know kind of like the the size of
Proctor and Gamble in one quarter. I
mean it just uh 16% I mean let me put it
this way. Tim Cook would love to repeat
this quarter over and over and it just
shocked me because I I always get the
new iPhone more signaling than anything
else. It's just automatic for me to have
the newest iPhone but I don't really
sense any difference. As a matter of
fact, I think the operating system is a
little bit confusing. I think it's sort
of a step backwards.
>> They say the camera's better, but at
some point, you know, camera, the last
camera seemed pretty incredible,
>> but they grew their revenue 16% topline.
I just I I was quite frankly I was
really shocked to the upside by the
revenue growth.
>> Yeah, I think that the the 16% I think
that's a totally fair point. the 16%
revenue growth is very impressive and
it's because people are buying the
iPhone and you know I think that that is
a testament to their marketing
capabilities.
Um I don't think it's a testament to the
product itself and I think that is my
point. The thing that you were saying
there about the iPhone itself I mean I
got the new iPhone. The reason I got it
was because my old iPhone was the
battery was kind of dying and I figured,
okay, like I guess I should get the new
iPhone and it's time for an upgrade. Um,
but I'm not impressed by the new iPhone.
I'm not impressed by the product. That's
what I'm hearing from most people. I
don't think anyone's really impressed by
the operating system and the growth
potential of AI is not really there. He
was asked about how they're going to
monetize AI. Tim Cook was on the call
and he didn't really have an answer to
that. So, I I think I think that's true.
I think it is impressive the sales
growth um of the iPhone, but I just
don't view it as that sustainable going
forward because I just don't I don't see
them introducing new products that
people are really excited about. Um but,
you know, perhaps I'm being perhaps I am
being too harsh on Apple. Perhaps I'm
upset with Tim for going over the
Melania show.
Um, I think Apple is going to
basically essentially create an enormous
new licensing agreement with one of
these
um, LLMs that's raising ridiculous
amounts of capital to have to be the AI
LLM of choice to their billion
wealthiest consumers in the world. I
think they're doing the same thing. I
think they're going to stay out of the
AI wars and leverage their leverage
their custody of the billion most
important consumers in the world and
enter into some sort of similar
agreement as they have with search. You
know, they never got into the search
wars. They said we can't compete. It's
better to it's better to rent our
consumer base than go vertical in this.
I think they're doing the same thing in
AI. So anyway, we'll see.
>> President Trump has nominated Kevin
Walsh to be the next Federal Reserve
chair. If confirmed by the Senate, Walsh
would replace Jerome Powell in May. The
major indices fell slightly on the news.
Meanwhile, the dollar climbed and
long-term bond yields rose. In a truth
social post, Trump said, quote, "I have
known Kevin for a long period of time. I
have no doubt that he will go down as
one of the great Fed chairman, maybe the
best. On top of everything else, he is
central casting and he will never let
you down." Um, we finally got our Fed
chair. People thought it was going to be
Kevin uh Hasset. People thought it might
be Chris Waller. Then people thought it
might be Rick Reer. It is going to be
Kevin Walsh. Um my initial reactions to
this, the options were not that great.
At least if you were to look at uh Kevin
Walsh versus Kevin Hasset versus Chris
Waller. I don't know as much about Rick
Reader because he came onto the scene
very late. Uh what I do know is that in
my opinion at least Kevin Wat is the
least bad of the options. Um you know
he's definitely been a sickopant of late
but he could not have been more
sickantic than Hasset has been and also
than Waller has been. And what is also
quite interesting is you know he is
traditionally known as a monetary hawk.
His view is at least in his past has
been you need to fight inflation which
means higher interest rates which is
interestingly the exact opposite of what
Trump wants right now. He is of course
changing his position a little bit
lately to make Trump like him. I mean
they're all doing this. They're all
playing the syphant role. Um, but it it
will be interesting and I could see this
playing out quite similarly to the
Jerome Powell situation where Trump said
very similar things about Jerome Powell
and then eventually Jerome Powell held
his own um and he did what he thought
was right for inflation and now they're
in this war against each other and the
administration is trying to investigate
him. So
uh I think he was the least bad of the
options. So I think this went about as
well as it could have gone given the
circumstances.
>> That feels right. I think the markets
are doing a collective exhale right now.
And the key term you used was hawkish. I
think the fear was that he was going to
put some sycopant alkali in and the guy
and the person was immediately going to
cut interest rates to 1% and and ignite
an upward spiral a death spiral of
inflation
and that that was kind of the doomsday
scenario. And this guy is known as a
hawk. Yeah, he likes Trump's policies
but we knew that was going to happen. uh
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
who's seen as a responsible guy. He was
the first nonUK citizen to, I think,
chair the Bank of England, called him a
fantastic choice. He's also said Walsh
has also been critical of the Fed for
enabling too much deficit spending,
which I'm I'm a big fan of that
viewpoint. Um, so, you know, he has ties
to the billionaire class. He's a Trump
fan, but he's I I think, you know, I
think this is a good pick. We'll see.
>> Yeah, we'll see. I thought the central
casting quote was hilarious. It's
possible that he meant that he has the
right resume, but I think it's more
likely he meant that the guy's
good-looking and tall.
>> I think he's listening to our podcast.
Central out of central casting is our
term.
>> I think he listens to Fox News and turns
into Edson.
>> Get that young guy. What's that young
guy think? What's that young guy? You
know, the guy with the communist
professor.
>> Let's arrest him. Let's put him in a
cell next to Don Lemon.
>> Yes. That's what's going to happen.
>> By the way, just a brief note, breaking
news this morning. Don Lemon was
arrested. And this wasn't an arrest of
like a bunch of people trespassing. So,
one by one, this was a targeted arrest
by our attorney general. And when you
start targeting journalists, it's not
enforcing the law. It's trying to shape
reality. And just to bring this back to
markets, whether it was Turkey in 2013
or Russia in the early 2000s, the moment
you start uh policing speech, it creates
a level of selfcensorship that is really
bad for democracy and bad for economics
and history is brutally clear here. The
moment you start censoring people and
arresting journalists,
markets just start to fail and the
nations become much poorer and much
angrier. So distinctive what you think
of first amendment rights targeted abuse
and arrest of people who speak out
against the Trump administration. Be
clear if we it's a fast hill down and a
slow hill back up to restore free
speech. But the moment you you you put
up with the arrests of journalists your
nation is about to get much much poorer.
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We're back with Profy Markets. 2026
could be a blockbuster year for IPOs. In
fact, Blackstone's president said the
company had lined up quote one of our
largest IPO pipelines in history. SpaceX
is reportedly targeting a midJune
listing, seeking to raise up to $50
billion at a roughly $1.5 trillion
valuation. That would make it the
largest IPO in history. Open AAI,
meanwhile, is reportedly raising
additional funding at a valuation of
$830 billion with discussions underway
about a potential IPO later this year.
Anthropic and Data Bricks are also
expected to go public this year. So,
Scott, everyone said last year was going
to be the year of the IPO. It was kind
of the year of the IPO, but not really.
We didn't really see any huge big
splashes in the IPO market. It seems
that this actually will be the year. Um,
and according to John Gray, president of
Blackstone, he says it's going to be the
largest ever. Your thoughts?
>> It may be the largest ever, but it'll be
the largest ever by gross dollar volume
raise. And unfortunately, it'll be
crowded into a small number of
companies. We've been sort of we keep
getting hints of some sunshine that the
kind of the nuclear winter and the IPO
market is coming to an end and there's
the beginning of a thaw and it never
quite gets its mojo. So I think they're
saying this is there's so much pent-up
demand and these companies have you know
have reached such exceptional valuations
in the private market that they need to
find
you know the greater fool and the
greater fool I think in those instances
will be taking these unbelievable brands
and an unbelievable technology and
giving retail investors the first shot
at owning them. In terms of the
companies themselves,
you know, SpaceX, I think SpaceX has as
big a moat as OpenAI does not. And that
is SpaceX, I think it's like 80 or 90%
of launch capability now is controlled
by one company, SpaceX. I think the next
big big thing in terms of a company with
no revenues being worth 200 billion is
going to be space defense. All the moons
are lining up around that. And the
infrastructure play, the Nvidia of space
quite frankly is SpaceX. I just I think
I don't I I have trouble thinking of a
company that has built a wider moat than
SpaceX. Open AI, I think, could be
I think Open AI could get pulled. I I
think there's a nonzero probability that
Gemini and some of these open weight
gain so much traction against
open AI and Anthropic is kind of beating
them in the enterprise has done a better
job of branding instead of branding
catastrophe.
Anthropic has branded itself as a
partner if you will and their ads are
much clever. They're more about humans
and saying this is a tool not the you
know not something that could be the end
of the world. Uh, I don't think OpenAI
has done a good job managing their brand
of late, especially the proximity
between Sam Alman and the president. I
think people are starting to gag on that
and I think they're way out in front of
their skis in terms of the valuation
they're that they're anticipating.
Anyways, I'm very bullish on SpaceX. I I
don't know from a valuation standpoint,
you know, how unreasonable the the
valuation is going to be, but I I very
rarely see a company that has the kind
of competitive advantage or sustainable
advantage it has. And I think Open AI
sustainable advantage is really really
thin. You mentioned the valuation of
SpaceX, you ask the question, is it
unreasonable or unreasonably high? The
answer is pretty much yes. I mean one
and a half trillion that would be a
price to sales multiple of 97
>> and you just look at
>> Palunteer. I mean yeah true Palanteer
but you know Microsoft when when
Microsoft hit a trillion they had $97
billion in revenue. Google had 183 Apple
had 265.
SpaceX has less than $16 billion in
revenue in 2025. But to your point, the
moat of this company and the potential
growth of this company is also
unreasonably high. I mean, as you say,
80 to 90% of all global launches. SpaceX
is responsible for them. They have and
operate twice as many satellites as the
rest of the world combined. Uh, also,
they're way cheaper than all of their
other rivals. And I do think it's it's
it's going to be, you know, the growth
potential of just space as an industry
is just gigantic. I totally agree. Space
defense could be a huge thing as well.
So $1.5 trillion, I mean, it's hard to
come up with a reasonable valuation for
a company that is pursuing such an
unreasonable and crazy and unknown
business. Uh but the number itself is
staggering. One and a half trillion is
just completely insane. Um, by the way,
if it happens at one and a half
trillion, Bloomberg estimates that this
will increase Elon Musk's net worth to
$950 billion.
And now, according to Khi, the
probability that he will become a
trillionaire next year is 64%.
So, it's more than likely that Elon will
be a trillionaire next year. Yeah.
>> Well, thank God he's he's responsible
and not an addict.
That could be scary having that much
power in one person's hand if that
person, I don't know, had a drug
addiction or uh was generally seen as
not having a great deal of empathy for
HIV positive mothers or
um yeah, so thank God, thank God he's so
stable and doesn't sleep with a loaded
gun next to his bed.
>> It is quite striking. um that would mean
that his net worth would be equal to 3%
of America's GDP.
And if you compare this to John D.
Rockefeller, widely known as the richest
man in the history of America, at the
peak of the guilded age, his wealth
amounted to 2% of America's GDP. So Elon
is basically
the wealthiest as a percentage of the
pie, the wealthiest man in the history
of this country about to get uh even
wealthier likely u because of this
SpaceX IPO. I feel like there's a lot to
talk about there.
>> Yeah. And I want to be clear. I I think
we need billionaires. I'm not sure we
need trillionaires, but I think we need
billionaires. And one of the wonderful
things about capitalism is the incentive
structure to make just a crazy amount of
[ __ ] money.
The thing that bums me out about that is
that now that he lives in Texas, he's
going to end up paying
does 1202 matter? I don't know. He's
going to end up paying a tax rate
probably of like 15 or 18% on that
money. Whereas the people who work the
engineers who work at SpaceX who make 23
$400,000 a year will end up paying
especially the ones back in California
will end up paying 40 45 some will
probably pay 50%. Anyways, um our first
Wow. Wow. So Calier Poly Market predicts
it's going to be it's more likely than
not he'll be a trillionaire. That's just
wild.
>> By next year, if you look at by 2028 or
2029, the odds go up to above 80%. It's
basically baked in to prediction markets
that Elon will become a trillionaire
within the next few years. Likely, more
likely than not, as soon as next year.
>> Yeah. Hand it to SpaceX and Elon Musk. I
mean, technology is changing the world
of protests. It's changing
what would have happened. What would
have the response been to the activities
of ICE in Minneapolis had there not been
the advent of camera phones, right? Or
of cameras on phones. It just would have
been, you know, one narrative versus the
other. And also SpaceX or Starlink
terminals in Iran have helped kept the
world apprised of what's going on. So
both of these technologies and I think
Elon's done a really good job of trying
to ensure I assume it's him trying to
ensure that the people of Iran have some
sort of communications
hotspots. But and also when I paid like
50 or $70,000 to have crazy high-speed
internet in my home in London and they
had to run a cable across Regions Park
or whatever and of course it went out
and this guy was running around and he
what did he do? We installed Starlink
and it wasn't as good as the fiber, but
it was the quickest, best, quick
solution. It's an incredible product. I
used Starlink on a plane the other day
and I could have done a podcast. It was
that good. It was Anyways, um I I I just
don't think there's any denying. I I
think SpaceX is going to be worth more
than X, worth more than Tesla, worth
more. I I I think that's that's his I
don't know his golden egg, if you will.
>> A question about investing in a IPOs. I
mean, this is obviously the question.
>> Don't
>> Excuse me.
>> It's an easy one. If you have access to
the IPO, absolutely. But buying on the
first trade is usually a bad bad idea,
>> right? Yeah. So, we've got Canva, we got
Revolute, Stripe, Data Bricks,
Anthropic, Open AI, SpaceX. Your view on
these is don't invest. The game is
[ __ ] rigged. It's essentially either
you're powerful and know the CEO or have
influence or you're an institution that
gives so many fees to these investment
banks that they give you an allocation.
They purposely price it 10 to 40% below
what they think the market with the
first trade will be. The institutions
and the powerful friends of management
get in get easy money and then the
retail investors get to come in and buy
the first trade which is usually you
know at market. So buying on the first
trade of these things has not been a
high return strategy in the last couple
years cuz these things have been so
priced so aggressively. That is exactly
the data I've got in front of me.
Institutional investors own about three
times more than retail investors on the
IPO. The reason being the institutional
investors, the insiders, they get early
access, which gives you access to a
price that is almost always discounted
to what the what the stock goes at when
after it's gone public. So, we saw that
with Figma as an example. And as a
reminder again, we were saying that
Figma was a good buy at 33, which was
the IPO price. Then it gets listed on
the public markets. Some people got
access to that price, but if you did and
you were a retail investor, if you got
access, it's most likely you only got
one share, then it lists and it goes up
to 120. So, it's likely that the same
thing is going to happen for a lot of
these IPOs. And I think because there is
so much pent-up demand because we've
seen so few IPOs over the past year, it
basically means that that opening price
is going to be even more crazy because
everyone's going to want to get in on
the OpenAI IPO and the Anthropic IPO and
the SpaceX IPO and it's going to be a
completely irrational price. But what
will be interesting is to see the
insiders price. What are they going to
price it at for them? And I think for
those guys, it's basically a given that
you want to buy um at that price because
yeah, I think it's as you say, it's it
is a totally rigged game. I'm not sure
what to do about it. Um from a
regulatory perspective, it seems unfair
that insiders just get better returns.
That's just the way it is. Um but yeah,
I think that's that is the truth that
you highlight. One interesting idea is
the tokenization of companies from a
very early stage so everyone has access
early stage fewer transaction fees. The
thing I hate about the secondary market,
I get opportunities all the time as
anyone does through setter or you know
all these secondary markets is it's very
inefficient. They want to charge you 7%.
You don't have confidence to buy because
it's not a liquid market with a price.
But I like the idea of some sort of
tokenization where you use AI to grade
the compliance of the company
um and the disclosures and the
transparency. But from a very early
stage, you can buy tokens in these
startups and they don't go public. they
just have a a publicly traded currency
that represents ownership. The problem
is that creates all sorts of all sorts
of um disclosure requirements. But I
wonder sometimes if the SEC and these
regulatory bodies want to hold on to
their jobs as opposed to acknowledge
that you know the entire market has
become very speculative. So and there's
so much opportunity for speculation but
that people have with their money. what
exactly who exactly are you protecting
from what with these you know and I
think AI could serve uh we've talked
about this as a pretty thick layer of
disclosure where you buy a token and
your buddy that started that company
Rogo that has that that layer of
innovation on top of AI for financial
services companies you know should that
company have tokens right now that
anyone could buy and it doesn't it never
goes public it just keeps increasing or
decreasing in value um but there's
There's got to be some sort of
innovation here that gives retail
investors access to this access to this
stuff.
>> Yeah. I I think my my view on this is
the the line between private and public
markets has become so blurred at this
point that it should really just be
eliminated. I mean, the fact that we're
we have all these investor accreditation
laws that are supposed to protect people
from buying shares in OpenAI. Meanwhile,
you can buy [ __ ] Rocket and Pepecoin is
just completely ridiculous. or bet on
the Super Bowl on like what if the next
play is going to be a run or a pass. I
mean, enough already.
>> Exactly. And it's like, oh, no, we we
want to we want to make sure that you're
only investing in real companies. So,
that's why we're going to have to go
through this accreditation process and
you're going to have to prove to us that
you've made uh $200,000 a year for two
years in a row and then you're able to
invest in these private. It's just
completely ridiculous. So all of these
private companies, everyone should be
able to invest in them. If we're going
to say that crypto is legal, then
investing in private companies should
also be legal. My only problem with the
tokenization point is I feel like it
assumes that it needs a crypto aspect
because crypto is highly associated with
tokenization. I don't think it needs
that. I think all you need to do is say
anyone can invest in private companies.
That's the law. And so let them invest.
And then that will mean that the New
York Stock Exchange and all these public
exchanges can reach out to private
companies and have them list. And it
basically just means that everyone can
list as a public company. I don't think
you necessarily need crypto or AI to
enable that to happen. I take your point
about um you know
getting the auditing done on some of
these companies, but the reality is
we're not auditing prediction markets.
We're not doing any of that [ __ ] on
crypto. So why are we pretending that we
should be do doing it with companies
too?
>> Yeah, but I was thinking about,
you know, we do a plan every quarter or
we get I get all the financials from the
I try to pretend I have a board at Prof
Media. By the way, I love not having a
board, but I try to pretend I have a
board and I do kind of an internal
quarterly board meeting where
>> Who's on the board?
>> Oh, it's it's Scott Galloway and his 17
alternative personalities.
>> It's news to me. I didn't know we had a
board. I didn't know we had a pretend
board. Uh, I'm gonna have the second and
third board members will be those two
hotties from that gay hockey series. I
want to put those two on my board. But
what I do is I put together a board deck
or something resembling a board deck.
Basically, I ask Karen and the finance
team to put together all these metrics
and and I run it through AI where we
where is there opportunity, where there
isn't. I look at it. I've I've gone
through a million board decks. But I was
even thinking about publishing it
because
a I think it's illuminating how an
entrepreneur thinks about a small media
business and each media business it's
trying to grow 20 or 30% a year and
trying to grow its EBIT to 40% a year.
But also I do think that I just I think
AI I think AI could say all right I
think there's a business in becoming an
SEC an AI version of SACE where it says
all right we need the following I need
the following access to the following
APIs I need access to your company's
bank account it'll be anonymous not
going to release any information I need
access to your payables I need access to
your client contracts I need access to
and if you give me access to all those
things I'm going to put out a rating on
your company and I'm going to write
fantastic analyst reports and it'll give
people the confidence to invest or not
invest and you could create it almost
like well if you don't have this good
housekeeping seal of approval stay away
and then you could have a much simpler
much lower cost means of buying and
selling shares or tokens in that company
as long as it had this AI audit on a
regular basis and it could do it every
day but just total transparency
you wouldn't have insider trading
problems because everyone would kind of
know everything. And if a company says,
"Well, for strategic reasons, we don't
want the AI publishing that we're in a
deal. We're thinking about acquiring
this company." It's like, "Yeah, there's
certain things that are anonymized,
certain things that are not disclosed
publicly, but we have metrics on how
well the AI in a millionth of a second
says there, this is how good they are
return on invested capital. This is how
good their turnover is or bad it is.
This is how good they are at managing
their IP. This is how good they are
managing their expenses. This is their
renewal rates." And it may it doesn't
even need to publish that. It just gives
it a rating and says, "Oh, also on a
fraud detection thing, we see almost no
evidence of fraud or there's something
fishy going on here or their internal
checks and controls don't seem to be up
to snuff. It just there's this a
gigantic administrative infrastructure
bureaucratic government layer in between
investors and companies that is
expensive, cumbersome, and I would argue
is now not probably adding the value
that an AI infrastructure or AI layer
could. Uh I mean again it's the boring
[ __ ] that moves the needle. It doesn't
sound fun, right? that I think that
could be
>> doesn't sound fun, but it also sounds
difficult and you better hope that that
AI isn't hallucinating. Current
technology will not really guarantee
that at all. I mean, if it's possible
for ratings agencies and Moody's and S&P
to hallucinate as they frequently do,
then think about the hallucination rates
of the AIs. And then are we taking that
at face value? This is this is the
truth. This is what what's going on with
this company. These are the risks. Well,
what's closer to an objective truth,
right? Because Moody's Moody's had AAA
ratings on all the bonds, the subprime
bombs bonds before they literally folded
and almost took down the global economy.
What I think is important is the reason
you have Moody's and Fitch is, you know,
and I forget the third one
>> is you benchmark them against each
other. And what I always do, I never ask
one LLM a question of any importance
without asking two or three and then
cross referencing them. And I think you
could do that here. I think you would
run it through a variety of LLMs to say
where because you're right, it gets it
wrong all the time, but I would argue
>> it gets it wrong all the time. I mean,
it I I'll ask it a question. I'll say
this is the answer. And they'll say,
"No, it isn't." And they're like, "Oh,
you're right. No, it's not. It's it's
this. No, it isn't. Oh, sorry, you're
right. It's this."
I do this on and on and on and on. I
find the ratings agencies and those guys
have find they've been so weaponized by
who their clients are. And anyways, um I
find it's the boring [ __ ] that moves the
needle. If I were thinking about an AI
startup, I would think about trying to
connect it downstream with Galaxy
Digital or something around tokenization
and some sort of rating method.
AIdriven, no mercy, no malice, un can't
influence it, can't bastardize it that
puts out a rating on a company that you
then have the opportunity to buy tokens
in. Okay, let's take a look at the week
ahead. We'll see job openings for
December. We'll also see ADP employment
data and the employment rate for
January. Meanwhile, we will get earnings
from Amazon, Google, Palanteer, AMD,
Disney, Uber, FISA, Eli, Lily, and Novo
Nordisk. Scott, any predictions?
>> Well, I'm talking my own book here, but
um basically I think these economic
strikes are about to become a static
part of a new era in a citizenry quiver
of pushing back on governments. And that
is, and we talked a lot about this, my
observation is that the current
administration and also leadership
around the world is now responding more
to markets than they are to the
citizenry or the even the Supreme Court.
And that while protests are effective,
I'm not suggesting they're not. They're
very cinematic. But I would argue that
the current administration has only
responded to changes in the economy and
the markets. And the greatest political
movement in history in terms of action
and size of action was in Q1 of 2020
uh with COVID. And again, it wasn't
because hundreds of thousands of people
started dying. It's because GDP went
down 31%.
And the greatest act of again the
greatest act of radical transformation,
you know, kind of radical action in a
capitalist economy is not participation.
And I'm seeing a bunch of economic
strikes, including the one that we're uh
organizing, pop up. And I think that the
marketplace's vulnerability around such
a huge concentration of value across a
small number of companies who also
happen to be the companies, many of whom
who are enabling the president with
their sickopantry or showing up to
premers or giving money for a new White
House or or whatever it is. Your free
gift with purchase here is that a small
number of companies have a big impact on
the S&P. of a small amount of action.
Cancelling Apple TV Plus, canceling your
Amazon Prime just for the month of
February, going to one streaming
platform, having one LLM versus two and
being loud about it will get a lot of
attention. And you're going to see
national economic strikes. You're going
to see a bunch of them and they're going
to about to become a static part of the
resistance. And if you like what I'm
saying, don't like and subscribe. Resist
and unsubscribe. And by the way, that's
our website, resistandunsubscribe.com
or unsubscribe February. We have a list
of the companies at ground zero that
would have a disproportionate economic
impact on the markets. And then we have
something called the blast zone and
that's companies ranging from Home Depot
to to Hilton who are kind of aiding or
or participating in the support of
providing infrastructure to ICE. And um
anyways, prediction uh national economic
strikes are about to become the new
technology of pushing back on what I
think are fairly upsetting policies of
terror and anxiety
in the United States.
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In this episode, Scott Galloway and Ed analyze the 'Magnificent 7' earnings, highlighting Meta's AI-driven success against Microsoft's OpenAI-related skepticism. They critique Tesla's declining fundamentals and Elon Musk's use of the 'Optimus' robot as a narrative distraction to maintain high valuations. The discussion also covers the potential $1.5 trillion SpaceX IPO, the 'rigged' nature of the IPO market for retail investors, and the launch of the 'Resist and Unsubscribe' economic strike as a new form of political protest.
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