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00:53:13 · Josh Brown, Ed Elson
[00:53:13] S4: I think that's bullish. [00:53:14] S3: I was gonna say if we see a crash, it'll it'll look like nothing compared to the the real crashes that we've seen in the past, and it'll be fine.
00:53:22 · Josh Brown
[00:53:22] S4: We're taping Tuesday. Tomorrow night is Wednesday. We're gonna get Microsoft and and Alphabet, And then on Thursday, we're gonna get Amazon. So, and then this episode will come out. So I won't say... What I will say is, if you think there's gonna be a shakeout in the neo clouds that are spinning up all this compute and are doing it with debt capital, and you think that that debt capital will be less available or unavailable, and that is a worst case scenario for that part of the market, who is it good for? Well, if you're AWS, which Amazon Web Services hit 28% growth in the April quarter, 37% growth in the July quarter. They reported $496,000,000,000 in backlog for AWS the last time they reported. To put that into perspective, three quarters prior, it was 200,000,000,000. So if your AWS and four or five Neo Clouds somewhere in the world fold, that's pretty cool because you are ready to serve that demand. Your backlog will only grow. If you are SpaceX, that's pretty cool. We are the best builders of compute on the planet. We got this. Don't fucking worry about Nebius. We got this. If you are Microsoft Azure, if you are the Google Cloud, how is it bad if the neo clouds can't raise money at less than 15%? It sounds great to me. What does the stock market care more about? Nebius and CoreWeave or Microsoft and Alphabet? And then lastly, we really only have two examples in the publicly traded market of a company that has a premier model and its own source of compute to run that model. We have obviously Alphabet and Google Gemini, and now we have Meta and Muse. Something tells me that's gonna become important. At some point, investors might actually care about a company that's got AI end to end. We face the consumer with our own proprietary product and we supply the compute to that product. I don't know when, but when we talk about what could be the largest company in the world, unfortunately for Anthropic, they're gonna spend $900,000,000,000 on compute. They're not gonna supply any of it unless they spend a lot of money to build it, as we talked about. Microsoft had a partnership with OpenAI that seems to have not gone well. Now they're bring your own model like everybody else. Okay, fine. But the Alphabet, Google, Gemini thing could become really strategically important and the MetaMuse thing too.
00:56:22 · Josh Brown, Scott Galloway, Ed Elson, Kara Swisher
And I'm not saying that's actionable today, but tuck that idea in the back of your head, because we only have two companies that can run their own compute and have the front end that touches the end user. [00:56:38] S0: You don't think AWS qualifies for that? First off, verticalization is inevitable in any company that wants to sustain. [00:56:43] S4: What's AWS's AI product, Rufus, that helps you find the cheaper product on the, I mean, I guess they have chatbots. [00:56:52] S3: I didn't even know what that is. So that says something. [00:56:55] S0: Yeah, that says something. [00:56:56] S4: It's not a large scale LLM. In fact, Amazon had Bedrock, which was the original bring your own model platform. And the big idea was that AWS does not discriminate. We don't care what kind of AI you wanna use, you can use it here. And that made a lot of sense in the early days. And I'm not saying it won't in the future, but just think about that we only have two end to end AI players today. That might become important at some point in the future. And then people might come back and revisit this conversation. [00:57:34] S3: We'll be right back. And for even more Markets content, sign up for our newsletter at profgmarkets.com. [00:57:49] S2: Minneapolis. It's Kara Swisher. This November, Scott Galloway and I are taking Pivot, our wildly entertaining and provocative podcast on the road, and we're coming to you. [00:57:58] S0: Provocative is Latin for chaos. Come see the chaos live on November 4 at the State Theater.
00:57:58 · Scott Galloway, Kara Swisher, S5, Ed Elson
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00:59:15 · Ed Elson, Scott Galloway, Josh Brown
[00:59:15] S3: We're back with Prof G Markets. [00:59:17] S0: I just wanna put a footnote on your Amazon call. My big tech stock pick for '26 was Amazon. Ed likes Meta, but we pick Amazon for different reasons. While AWS, I agree with you, yeah, is gonna be a serious unlock. I think it's return or the empire strikes back around the retail unit because what I see is a collision between industrialized robots and AI. And Jassy is saying that he thinks they can double the size of their retail business by 2032, which by dollar volume is their biggest business without one single incremental hire. So all of a sudden, this large top line, low margin business is about to become a massive top line business with a... With reasonable margins. [00:59:57] S4: I like that idea. I think it's three years from now, but robots as a service, same way that AWS was initially conceived as being for internal use. Like we need our own cloud. Then the thing that got Sundar the top oh, job is we're gonna turn this outward and everyone's gonna utilize this. It's not impossible that what you just said, Scott, ends up being really important, which is, do you wanna own your own robot really? Or do you wanna utilize Amazon's by then fleet of millions of capable robots and rent them? And it could be big.
00:59:57 · Josh Brown, Scott Galloway
[00:59:57] S4: I like that idea. I think it's three years from now, but robots as a service, same way that AWS was initially conceived as being for internal use. Like we need our own cloud. Then the thing that got Sundar the top oh, job is we're gonna turn this outward and everyone's gonna utilize this. It's not impossible that what you just said, Scott, ends up being really important, which is, do you wanna own your own robot really? Or do you wanna utilize Amazon's by then fleet of millions of capable robots and rent them? And it could be big. [01:00:39] S0: 400,000 industrialized robots in America sounds Amazon. Amazon has a million. You said something before, Josh, that struck me that how... That what you think is bad for the markets actually is good for these guys. You said something that really struck me. You said recently that high interest rates and high oil prices turn out to be great for the market. What did you mean by that? [01:01:01] S4: We make this mistake. We talk about business or corporate America monolithically as though like it's all one thing. And what's good for business is good for business. [01:01:13] S0: Or good for people of the economy, right?