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]In this FSD episode, the throughline is why Google raised $80 billion in stock despite drowning in free cash flow, and what the coming wave of IPOs means. The argument: Google's raise is an offensive move, a reminder to institutions that the current AI leader trades at 26 to 27 times earnings while Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI line up to raise similar sums, plus a signal of ramping CapEx that flows straight to TSM, Broadcom, and Nvidia. From there it moves into the small-float dynamics of the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs, a warning on MicroStrategy's STRC and STRF funding legs for Bitcoin, and a long, wide-ranging section on where human judgment still beats AI, running from assessing people to the hard problem of consciousness. Closes with a candid New York City real estate read from a top Compass agent.
- (00:00) Numbering these by name now, and a Jane Street fan at the event
- (03:00) Google issues $80B in stock: why, when they have the cash
- (06:00) The offensive-maneuver thesis and reminding institutions on pricing
- (09:00) Google's history of disrupting the banks with its direct listing
- (10:30) More Google CapEx and the flow-through to semis
- (13:00) The coming IPOs: small floats and why that matters
- (15:00) Selling Bitcoin to buy SpaceX and the flows dynamic
- (16:30) MicroStrategy's STRC and STRF as the funding leg to watch
- (20:00) The S&P triple momentum strategy and HPE
- (22:30) Why quality names rally through the mere passage of time
- (25:30) Copycat trading, bottlenecks, and why the junk rally is real
- (28:30) AI versus human judgment: assessing people
- (31:00) Where AI has gaps: novel insight, non-consensus calls, founder bets
- (34:00) The Iliad, the bards, and intuition as invocation
- (36:30) Flashes of insight: Archimedes, Einstein, and thought experiments
- (39:00) The three phases of science and the limits of Aristotle
- (42:00) Quantum non-locality and the hard problem of consciousness
- (45:00) Leibniz vs Newton, Einstein vs Hilbert, and rivalries that push history
- (48:00) The latest Lumida data center compute deal
- (49:30) New York City real estate: the Compass agent's read on the pied-a-terre tax
- (52:00) How he'd fix housing: supply, incentives, and construction costs
- (54:00) A two-hour philosophy conversation on a plane, and why the events matter
About the show: Non-Consensus Investing is Ram Ahluwalia's running commentary on markets, where he shares how he's actually positioning capital and talks through the ideas most investors are missing. Real-time analysis, specific names, and a bias toward what's overlooked rather than what's crowded.
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