Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week they are joined by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, to discuss becoming Microsoft’s CEO, Advice for CEO’s, Microsoft’s Investment in OpenAI, Legacy Search, Ten Blue Links, Consumer and Enterprise AI, The Future of AI Agents, Infinite Memory, CoPilot, Microsoft’s Capital Expenditure, Open AI’s future, AI safety & more. Enjoy another episode of BG2.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:31) Becoming Microsoft CEO
(06:42) Satya’s Memo to CEO Committee
(10:42) Satya’s Advantage as a CEO
(11:34) Advice for CEOs
(15:01) Microsoft’s Investment in OpenAI
(19:42) AI Arms Race
(23:55) Legacy Search and Consumer AI
(28:07) The Future of AI Agents
(38:32) Near-Infinite Memory
(39:47) Copilot Approach to AI Adoption
(50:26) Leveraging AI within Microsoft
(56:03) CapX
(01:00:20) The Cost of Model Scaling and Inference
(01:15:15) Open AI Conversion to Profit
(01:18:05) Next Steps for OpenAI
(01:19:43) Open vs. Closed and Safe AI
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BG2 Thanksgiving Roundtable: DOGE, EV Tax Credit, Tariffs, Conspiracy Theories, Invest America
Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week they get in the Thanksgiving spirit, and discuss China, DOGE, Governor Newsom’s EV Tax Credit, Service Titan IPO, FedNow, Tariffs, Anthropic Open Source, Warren Buffet’s Thanksgiving letter, Conspiracy Theories, Invest America, & more. Enjoy another episode of BG2.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:40) Innovation in China & U.S. Competitiveness
(05:43) DOGE & Balancing the Budget
(10:43) Service Titan IPO & “Compounding Ratchet”
(15:36) Gov Newsom Attack on Tesla
(18:33) FedNow + Innovations in Payment Systems
(23:44) Tariffs as Negotiation Tactics
(27:36) Anthropic Open Source AI
(30:39) Warren Buffett's Philanthropy
(40:06) Invest America
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Ep20. AI Scaling Laws, DOGE, FSD 13, Trump Markets | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week they discuss AI Scaling Laws, the future of inference, AI memory and actions, National Full Self-Driving Regulations, FSD 13, Robotaxi and Waymo, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), & more. Enjoy another episode of BG2.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(02:00) AI Scaling Laws
(05:54) Implications of AI Scaling Trends
(12:20) The Future of Inference and Data Quality
(17:51) AI Memory and Actions
(21:47) National Full Self-Driving Regulation
(23:14) FSD 13
(29:41) Market Disruption: Winners and Losers in the Auto Industry
(31:18) The Future of OEM’s
(40:41) Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
(54:47) Tech Market Check
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Ep19. State of Venture, AI Scaling, Elections | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jamin Ball
Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week they are joined by Jamin Ball (Partner at Altimeter) to discuss the state of venture capital and incentives, implications of overcapitalization, the future of power law returns, AI’s impact on investment strategies, the future of AI and CapEx, the market’s reactions to the 2024 election, the evolution of search and AI integration, Nasa, SpaceX, & more. Enjoy another episode of BG2.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:52) Bill’s Dad | from Nasa to SpaceX
(06:20) State of VC and Incentives w/ Jamin Ball
(12:31) Implications of Overcapitalization
(25:08) The Future of Power Law Returns
(38:28) The Impact of AI on Investment Strategies
(46:00) Future of AI and Capital Expenditure
(52:21) Market Reactions to 2024 Election
(01:00:45) Evolution of Search and AI Integration
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Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week, joined by Sunny Madra (Groq) they discuss Jensen Huang’s recent appearance on the podcast, including scaling intelligence towards AGI, NVIDIA's strategic positioning, the role of CUDA in the developer ecosystem, the future of inference workloads, systems-level thinking, Elon Musk's influence on AI development, the future of AI assistants, open vs closed AI models, safety and security in AI development, & more. Enjoy another episode of BG2.
Chapters
(00:00) Introduction and Initial Reactions to Jensen
(04:32) NVIDIA's Position in Accelerated Compute
(05:11) CUDA and NVIDIA’s Competitive Moat
(12:53) Challenges to NVIDIA’s Competitive Advantage
(18:22) Future Outlook on Inference
(24:46) The Insatiable Demand for AI and Hardware
(27:12) Elon Musk' and X.ai
(31:47) Scaling AI Models and Clusters
(34:17) Economic Models and Funding in AI
(39:08) The Future of AI Pricing and Consumption Models
(42:25) Memory, Actions, and Intelligent Agents
(47:08) The Role of AI in Business Productivity
(51:03) Open vs Closed Models in AI Development
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