TBPN Live - Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

This is our full conversation with Gavin Baker.We discuss the aftermath of the SpaceX IPO, why he believes SpaceX could become the most important company of all time, how AI infrastructure an...d "token factories" are reshaping capital markets, why sovereign AI strategies may struggle to compete with frontier labs, and what the future of data centers, orbital compute, and the AI endgame could look like.TBPN is made possible by:Ramp - https://ramp.comPublic - https://public.comCisco - https://www.cisco.comConsole - https://www.console.comCrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.comFigma - https://www.figma.comMongoDB - https://www.mongodb.comNYSE - https://www.nyse.comRailway - https://railway.comShopify - https://www.shopify.com/Codex - http://openAI.com/codexSign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.comFollow TBPN:https://TBPN.comhttps://x.com/tbpnhttps://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Gavin Baker, welcome to the show. How are you doing? Doing great, man. How are you guys? Fantasticly, right? SpaceX IPO, it seems like everything went just flawlessly to a T, like, to the point where it wasn't even dramatic. Let's give a round of applause for the bankers.
Starting point is 00:00:17 The banker, it's like 20%- Perfect. 20% pop almost to its- Yeah, what I mean by that is like, is like, it would have been more dramatic if it had like popped up 70% and then went down 30 and then went up 50 and it was drama. But it was just like perfect execution from start to finish. Was that how you interpreted it? I thought Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley did a very good job.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Yeah. What do you think the market is looking for SpaceX next? Is it all eyes on the first earnings report? Like where do we go from here? Because there's so much of the SpaceX story pre-IPO that was a decade out, five years out, two years out. But is the market going to be processing quarter by quarter plays like many other companies? Well, I think the market is always, you know, quarters matter.
Starting point is 00:01:03 Yeah. You know, the runners on X, you know, it's like there are these reply people on X for any topic or experts. Yeah. But somebody what's told me a marathon is 26, one mile runs. Yeah. And so, you know, and then all the runners were like, no, that's not true at all. You know, obviously running miles different than running a marathon. But, you know, every quarter matters.
Starting point is 00:01:24 But at the same time, I do think if you look at how the, The market has looked at Tesla over the last five, six years, you know, Amazon during kind of the days of, you know, when they were building out AWS and then, you know, kind of their retail distribution infrastructure when they'd go through these investment cycles. I do think the public market has a much greater tolerance for investment and a much longer time horizon than a lot of people in the venture ecosystem give it credit for. By the way, this is Foxy in the back. He's one of the analysts here at Atreides. I was just listening to him on the Brad Gersner podcast. I think he chimed in on that, right? You brought him with?
Starting point is 00:02:09 There we go. Yes, he did. But he did the work on SpaceX, so I thought you guys might want to talk about that. But I do think I'm not sure the story is as far out as you made it seem to be. I think there are two variables that are going to matter a lot over the next year. The first is just how quickly can they bring on terrestrial compute. It does seem like they monetize gigawatts at a higher rate than anyone else. And we know from Jensen that they bring on data centers faster than anyone else, per Jensen's words.
Starting point is 00:02:46 And everyone in the ecosystem is really incented to get landed power in the hands of people who can energize it, because everybody starts making more money when the GPUs are energized. So, you know, if they can, what are, what, what, what was the altimeter figure for how, what they were monetizing gigawatts at Foxy, do you remember for which deal? Well, I think it was like two to three, wasn't it like at least two times higher than like average neocloud pricing? And that's partly in due to scale and customer quality and things like that. But it was meaningful. Yeah, so they're doing 50 billion a gigawatt on Google deal. So how quickly they can add gigawatts really matters.
Starting point is 00:03:27 Yeah. If you can energize two, three, four gigawatts in the next year, that's a lot of revenue. Now, you know, that prices may go up, they may go down, but that's really going to matter. So all eyes on Colossus 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, et cetera, at least in the short time. Yeah, our macro hard, macro harder, macro. Hardist. To that name, macro hardest. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:51 And then I think cursor is another big variable. Yeah. You know, we talked about it with Brad about how Composer 2.5, after three weeks of, you know, RL and supervised fine-tuning Colossus 2, it's kind of Pareto dominant. So what's going to happen when it's applied to a bigger, better base model? I do think Cursor being in, you know, half the Fortune 500 is interesting. So I think those two things, you know, while, I mean, I'm super excited. for going to Mars and asteroid mining and, you know, a city and mass drivers on the moon, like all that stuff is awesome. And I think there's a, you know, decent chance it happens in my lifetime.
Starting point is 00:04:40 I just think there is much more tangible near-term drivers here. Yeah. How do you think about the tension of the cloud business versus their own application and model business? I think a lot of people were surprised when the initial Anthropic deal happen purely because knowing Michael Truel, he would have been very excited. That's my compute. Yeah, yeah, get access to a couple. He's like, hey, you got to share? It's not an only child around here.
Starting point is 00:05:07 And it feels like you can imagine SpaceX, you know, bring on a lot more compute very quickly. But at the same time, every lab has had to go through this tension of like how much, how much compute do we allocate to training versus inference? A way to interpret that is that maybe the team at SpaceX is pretty confident. and their ability to bring gigawatts online. Yeah, that makes sense. And the altimeter figure that they've ordered 20% of the Rubens, and the Rubin is an epic chip.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Like Blackwell, it was really hard to get it online. Ruben is kind of a more drop-in replacement. It's a really, really good chip. You'll have the, you know, the Groch LPUs integrated at some point in the next six, nine months. So one way to interpret that is they're pretty complex. confident that they can bring data centers online pretty quickly. But I also, I don't remember all of the details, but I do think there was an out in the Anthropic agreement that if they need to compute.
Starting point is 00:06:13 And the Google and the Google and the Google. Yeah, could be short term. That's what I just meant. It's like, it is, there is like attention there where if you, you know, there's a moment where maybe you want to compute, but you don't necessarily have all the revenue yet. And so you could see, anyways, I'm very confident they figured out. Yeah, on the topic of like Elon Web Services, is there a world where SpaceX winds up building out more of what looks like AWS? Like we've seen between Open AI and Anthropic, there's this tension of like you got to be on AWS because ITAR or, you know, the ecosystem or enterprises just want to be on AWS.
Starting point is 00:06:48 They won't even go over to Azure or Google Cloud for whatever. And you could imagine like it might, is it enough to just be a token factory or do you need to have, you know, a database and an in-memory storage and, you know, cloud storage and cold storage and all the things that ABS provides. My thought is that being a token factory is more than enough for the next five to 10 years. Man, we are, yeah, we need more token factories. But we'll see. And if they need that stuff, like, they will build it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:19 How are you thinking about the other hyperscalers, the other big tech companies? We were sort of puzzling over meta strategy at this point. tons of resources, cash flow, data centers. They have experience there. Maybe they're not as fast as SpaceX, but there's a lot there. But it's a completely different motion to go into token factory. And yet there's still a lot of demand. So how do you think all of that plays out?
Starting point is 00:07:46 Well, I think there's many ways to go to the token factory business. You could, if you're meta, you could just say to someone like fireworks, Hey, here are 100,000 GPUs. We'll take our revenue split and we'll see what happens. I am increasingly looking at EV to net PPNE as a valuation metric. Just with the idea of being installed atoms on Earth, I think are going to appreciate and value. This is a little bit that halo trade that I think maybe Goldman Sachs came up with, you know, high asset value, low obsolescence. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:23 But meta, you know, meta's EV to net PPNE multiple is in an interesting place. It just suggests that the market has an immense amount of skepticism about their ability to monetize their own asset base. And I think that's, I think that's warranted given that all we've really got out of management is this concept of personal superintelligence. And it would be different if meta AI was like at the top of the app store and everyone you were talking to was like, Like, yeah, you know, I'm using meta-a-I. Even there was like a killer feature within Instagram. Yeah, like, oh, people are shopping in Instagram now. And I think no one, no one doubts that like once Zuck has an AI product with a billion dollars of revenue, he can take it to tens of billions.
Starting point is 00:09:06 But it's unclear. I feel like, you know, going into enterprise, like, you know, what is this API business going to look like? We know they can use the GPUs just on making the ads product better at the end of the day. But there's a lot of questions. Look, I think a few things. I do think if I look at the way different players are behaving, it feels like everyone thinks we're entering the end game. Everybody, you know, loves to use these chess analogies.
Starting point is 00:09:35 And it looks like the end game maybe here's sooner than we think. I think that's why OpenAI is cutting codex pricing, simply because coding, you know, coding tokens are so valuable. And if you don't have enough of them, you may not be able to get into this RSI loop that that everyone is, you know, pushing for. And I think if you're Zuckerberg, you feel that acutely. I thought, Muse, what are that, Muse.
Starting point is 00:10:06 You spark. It was, to me, it was an upside surprise, and it made me feel like, you know, what's the, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's saying there's a chance. Hell yeah. Like, you're telling me there's a chance. I mean, the other quote from Talladega nights is if you're not, if you're not first,
Starting point is 00:10:27 you're last. And that's how a lot of people, there's so many good quotes in Talibagena about it. It's all the windshield. Yeah, 100%. But I think if, I'm pretty confident Mark Zuckerberg has proven to be a good entrepreneur over time and has been willing to pivot,
Starting point is 00:10:47 you know, And it's just, it's so funny, you know, right now Facebook is, you know, meta is telling investors. There's like no chance that we're going to, you know, monetize GPUs externally. Well, like 10 days before they announced all those layoffs, which I think was at the end of 22. If not, I don't remember when they started to announce the layoffs. It was shortly after Brad, maybe two months after Brad wrote that letter to Mark where he said, you're the king. You can do whatever you want. but this is what I might respectfully encourage you to do.
Starting point is 00:11:21 You know, they went from saying, we're not going to do that. We're going to keep investing to, you know, super focused on OPEX in a couple of days, man. So it's like people they meet with meta and they hear, oh, you know, we're not, we're not going to monetize our GPUs externally. Well, I don't know, check back in a few hours. Yeah, yeah. No, it's like everyone, it comes down to like everyone has a price. You look at Elon and Anthropics relationship four months ago. And then you look at kind of, kind of as the opportunity unfolded, it made sense for them to partner.
Starting point is 00:11:58 I wanted to ask how. On the meta thing, I think there is one point that's important. What ultimately drives behavior for all these big cap companies? Like getting to AI, I think that does feel existential for all of them. But the stock price also really matters. Sure. Because if you don't, if the stock. goes down you know you gave people a grant at this price stock goes down you know
Starting point is 00:12:21 your engineers are unhappy and it's tougher to get to where you want to go if you don't have you know these you don't know forget the 10x engineer people are talking about the 10,000 X engineer you know you're not going to get there if you don't keep those 10,000 X engineers yeah so just I think like we'll see we'll see with better yeah yeah uh how did this IPO uh update your your your general kind of framework for the role that retail is playing in capital markets. A lot of, it was very funny last week to see people like say like, oh, the IPO is only 2x oversubscribed by retail.
Starting point is 00:13:01 Yeah, they're jumping. All these other $3 billion IPOs were 10x over subscribed. It's like, no, we're talking about, you know, a very, you know, order of magnitude difference here. But it still feels like retail is going to play a very, very important. roll over the next 12 months, maybe more so than ever, given that the, the hyperscalers are now running, you know, cash flow negative. You have the conflict in the Middle East, right? There's rebuilding efforts that needs to happen. And so I feel like retail, this is, this is kind of
Starting point is 00:13:35 retail's moment now, maybe more than ever. Yeah, well, so a few things. One, people say retail in a pejorative way, and I would just say stupid is as stupid does. And, And like, you know, we track, you know, there's all these indices of retail favorites. And man, they're up a lot and they're up a lot, 25, and they're up a lot in 24. You know, so kind of stupid is as stupid does. So I'm not, you know, like I think retail is probably outperforming the overwhelming majority of professional money managers, whether they're, you know, private equity manager, venture, you know, public equity managers, whatever. So like retail, I don't think it's a majority. I do actually think in the case of SpaceX, I'm not sure, you know, you process so much information.
Starting point is 00:14:24 I'm not sure where this comes from. But I actually think after the IPO, you know, for whatever reason, some of that retail stock may have gotten allocated to people who were flipping it. Because my understanding is there was more institutional buying. I don't know where this after the IPO was retail buying. Now, I'm sure, you know, retail is very sensitive to momentum, so maybe what's happening today changes that. But I think another really underappreciated thing about the SpaceX IPO is that over 10,000 SpaceX employees bought on the IPO. And that's just, you know, everybody does all these lockup analyses and, oh, how much stock is going to come to market. And, you know, for sure, there's all these triple layer SPVs or whatever.
Starting point is 00:15:11 Or maybe there are, there are, people speculate there are. And I'm sure some of that will get unwound. But the reality is that SpaceX employees own a lot of this. And if you're an employee or even if you're an investor who has an SPV or you're directly on the cap table, you've had a chance to sell every six months for the last 10 years. If you wanted to sell, you could have sold and, you know, whatever, when they did that offering in the second half of last year, year. So I think the supply demand dynamics here are going to be very interesting. But with retail
Starting point is 00:15:47 in general, yeah, man, they've been a more powerful force in the market over the last three and a half years than any other time in my career, including the year 2000 bubble, which I think this is nothing like, by the way. But yeah, they matter. And so, they matter. And so, stupid is and stupid does. I'm interested to go a click deeper on the idea of like value will accrue to companies that are in the token path. I think that phrase is extremely powerful right now, but I want to sort of expand it and understand the fringes of the token path because we talk to Matthew Prince at Cloudflare,
Starting point is 00:16:33 stocks at all-time highs, it's delivering tokens at the edge, and obviously there's an immense amount of AI agents that are interfacing with different websites they need to be distributed. So there's a lot of value there, but is Cloudflare in the token path if they're the one finally sending you the packet of tokens at the edge? Or does that not count? How does that, how do you think about that? Every CDN has this business. You know, Akamai, they signed, what was it, a $1.8 billion with Anthropic?
Starting point is 00:17:07 And if you have all these points of presence and you can deliver really low latency tokens to high value users. I think what's interesting for all these CDNs is they're getting a massive premium for that latency. It turns out one of the lessons from Cerebrus is people are willing to pay for speed. And you see that in the prices these guys are commanding. But I do think, I mean, my God is in terms of tokens consumed on planet Earth, these CDNs are delivering less than 1% of them and I mean maybe less than 10 basis points of them. Most of the things are happening internally and then you just get the result.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Would I say that these guys are in the token path? I mean, I would say they have a path towards being in the token path. Yeah. And they have part of their business that's in it today. Yeah. And like everyone, they're trying to move it more and more there. Yeah. I mean, Matthew was talking about co-locating Nvidia server.
Starting point is 00:18:09 on the edge, specifically for the delivery of voice models, because you want those to be very low latency. Maybe you want your coding model to go off and cook in Virginia for 20 minutes or an hour and then come back to you with the final result. But if you're trying to actually talk to a model, you probably want it as fast as possible. What about on the opposite end?
Starting point is 00:18:28 Wasn't there that a startup that a video just invested in that will... Oh, yeah, on your house. Money to put a GPU, you know, a four GPU server on the outside of your house. I mean, yeah, there's. Are going everywhere, going in your bed eventually. I mean, it's full circle too, because wasn't Jensen talking about stuff like that back during
Starting point is 00:18:47 like the original crypto cycle being like everyone's going to be, you know, mining. Yeah, and I mean, the Tesla power wall is like a version of that for storing energy. It doesn't store compute, but it stores energy locally on the edge off the grid. And there's a lot of powerful things that get unlocked by that. What about land? Is land in the token path at some point on the extreme other end? because people are obviously searching for going further and further upstream. They found a toilet company that makes a particular material that goes into
Starting point is 00:19:18 semiconductor supply chain. People are hunting for like the final, the final ingredient. Maybe it's just sand that turns into silicon. Yeah, I do think the bottle deck bros, as they are called, are this like bottle deck trade is kind of nearing its end. Okay. And, you know, I did, you know, the Wall Street Journal. have the story about this Japanese company that makes, I forget what they make.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Isn't it Toto? Agingom. Adjino, yeah. Adiomoto. And everybody's in this because they thought they were going to raise prices. And they just said, we're actually not going to raise prices. This is the wrong thing for us. And I almost posted yesterday on X, welcome to Japan, to all of the bottleneck people.
Starting point is 00:20:03 But, you know, everybody's, you know, having claw and run. What's the next bottleneck? Yeah. That was, that was the game for the last year. The next game is what has enduring franchise value. Yeah. Kind of on the other side of these bottlenecks, whenever, whenever that is. As far as land is land a bottleneck, man, I do think the math for orbital compute, to me, once they can reuse Starship.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Yeah. I think the math for orbital compute becomes pretty compelling. You know, it's just $60 billion to bring on a gig terrestrial. really, 25 is power and cooling. You don't need that in space. And so the right comp for that $35 billion of kind of, you know, IT equipment, GPU, CPU, CPU, switches, you know, memory storage, is that $25 billion versus the cost of launch.
Starting point is 00:20:55 And once Starship is reusable, I think the cost of launch is $5 billion. So that means you can put a gig into space for $30 billion, and the gig on Earth is $60 billion. and that 25, the power and cooling, feels reasonably inflationary to me. So I don't know that I would say land is in the token path. Maybe beachfront property, but that's about it. Beachfront property is beachfront property, airplanes, really nice cars. Firmly in the token path.
Starting point is 00:21:29 All that stuff is in the token path. I gotcha. How do you think the events of last week with Anthropic and D.C. update different countries on their own sovereign AI play. Because there's been attempts. It doesn't feel like many of the attempts of, you know, you can have a powered shell and you can have the best GPUs. But if you don't have the talent, it's going to be really hard to get to the frontier. And now if you don't have massive usage, it'll also be really hard to get to the frontier. And so do you think the ship has sailed?
Starting point is 00:22:04 No, look, look, I think every country is going to want to have their own sovereign AI strategy, the minimum for national defense. I think where that ends up is, I saw today that the EU had restricted exports of McStraul's I think that's a meme. So people have gone so far on the Mestral Le Chatt thing, La Chatton, that they're saying it's like mythos is distilled on it. and it's breaking all the benchmarks. I think it's a good model, but I don't know that it's quite there yet.
Starting point is 00:22:35 Yeah. But you can imagine that we get there for sure. Yeah, so I think what sovereign AI will look like for essentially all countries, really other than the United States and China, although I think China is going to fall further and further behind is just some sort of you do, you use, you know, you use one of these providers to do some reinforcement learning on your language, your culture, your values, you have a system prompt, you do some supervised fine-tuning,
Starting point is 00:23:06 and you run that on whatever the best open source model is. I think that's where sovereign AI ends up. And then you run it in your own data centers so you feel like it's safe and whatever defense questions you're asking it or whatever, forget questions, whatever. Defense and intelligence and maybe policing activities, your sovereign AI agents are doing, you know, 24 hours a day, you feel like they're safe.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Yeah. So I think that's where sovereign AI ends up. And I think, you know, they'll still be a big buildout for that. But man, sovereign AI at the frontier, I don't see it. Yeah. What do you think the drivers are of the widening gap between Chinese open source models and American closed source models is? China has made a terrible mistake, not, you know, taking, it feels like the administration
Starting point is 00:23:56 has been willing to let them buy H-200s or be something. 30s. Oh, yeah. And I think they're on this, like, you know, they have this crazy belief that, oh, you know, our own internal chips are good enough. They're not. And then, you know, I think what's making them think that is that Chinese labs are very, very good at distillation. Somebody told me it only took 160,000 reasoning traces from 01 and 03 to get the original deep seek. You know, they're very clever at industrial scale distillation. running it through multiple APIs, peeing each API from, you know, we've all seen those iPhone farms in China. You know, they've got, they've got the same thing for distillation and they've got, you know, 100,000 in points distilling these models across every API available. They've got really, really good at that. But man, all that goes away if people stop releasing these models at the frontier. And I think Mythos is a side of things to come there. Yeah, yeah. It seems like they're getting much better.
Starting point is 00:24:59 are locking down, the reasoning traces locking down the espionage. It feels like back during the 01 days, the labs weren't even aware that distillation was so possible that that was something that was such a potential threat for sure. Jordan? Is any part of you worried that you'll never see another company like SpaceX? Worried is the wrong word. Not worried, but like you have to. You have to, you have to appreciate, you have to appreciate that a moment like that, it's possible that you have an opportunity to invest in a company like that one time in your career. And thank God you did it, because there's plenty of people that, that had the opportunity it didn't. And, uh, well, I did
Starting point is 00:25:46 own 15% of video when it was a sub two billion dollar market cap, but I had I owned 10% of Tesla with a sub two billion dollar market cap. Um, but, um, but SpaceX certainly, It's been a special experience for me. And I think there is a chance that it is, you know, one of the most important iconic companies of all time. I mean, it already is. There's a chance it's the most. And I think in general it's just, like I kind of want to take a step back.
Starting point is 00:26:22 And like all this trillionaire hate from the left, it's like the, you know, there's a great post from my friend, Kevin Baffee saying like, oh, this is a bond villain who's decarbonizing the world. Last time I checked people on the left were like the environment.
Starting point is 00:26:42 Connecting, you know, poor people in low-income countries, schools and hospitals to the internet at very low cost. And he's helping blind people see today and, you know, interact with the world. That's a villain.
Starting point is 00:26:58 And then just like, there's so many parts of the SpaceX story, like all of the blue-collar workers who've gotten super well. If you're opposed to data centers on Earth, because the environment, well, SpaceX is your solution. So, you know, there was another great post that just said, you know, the left one, and they don't even appreciate it. The world's first trillionaire, you know, has done more to kind of solve the environment than like everyone else on Earth combined. Yeah, I saw there was another. good one. It's like, yeah, Elon could solve world hunger by, you know, market selling every, you know, piece of stock that he has and send the world into a global economic downturn, losing, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:43 millions of, millions of jobs in the process. Yeah, that somebody said that the world bank could solve hunger with $5 billion. And he said, if you prove it to me, I'll do it. And it turns out you can't solve world hunger for $5 billion. Yeah. But yeah, SpaceX is certainly, I would say, you know, SpaceX, Invidia, Tesla, they've all been very special to me in kind of a different way. But, man, there's nothing like a rocket launch. And so I just don't think as a visceral experience, I highly recommend everyone listening. You guys, if you have kids, take your kids to a lodge. You don't want to go with SpaceX.
Starting point is 00:28:22 Everybody's always like, oh, get me the special tickets. You just literally, you can go to a beach at Bocuch. and be where the special SpaceX viewing area is. You could literally be closer to the launch. There's hotels near Vandenberg. Take your kids. See a launch. It's super inspirational that humans are capable of this.
Starting point is 00:28:44 And it's much more visceral than you realize. You know, the sound, the blast of hot air. A lot of people cry. So go see a lodge. But there will be a never, I don't think, I'm pretty skeptical. that there will be another company that delivers a visceral experience like that. And then listen, if SpaceX puts a city on the moon and then Mars, and enables, you know, becomes the British East Indy company, the solar system,
Starting point is 00:29:15 I think this will, and there's a lot of hard engineering that needs to happen to go into all that. This will probably be the most important company of certainly my lifetime, but maybe of all time. And so from that sense, I don't think there will ever be anything else like it. And yeah, I guess that is a little bit sad. But you know what? There's so much awesome stuff happening in the world that it's, it's tough for me to get too down. I love it.
Starting point is 00:29:41 Yeah, hard to, hard to be hard to be too down. I have one last question. We have, you mentioned owning Nvidia sub two billion. What is the health of the sub two billion market right now? Is there, is there anything that you're excited about? anything that the bottleneck bros haven't ran out. You haven't run up to a billion yet? The bottle neck bros have taken everything under $2 billion.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Maybe not even like public companies, but private areas. I mean, we're starting to see the knock on effects of AI and bio and material science and like Neurrelink was sub 2 billion for a long time, right? And so there are more like not in theme, but accelerated by. So I don't know. There's also just like, you know, SaaS company. There's loads of incredible venture companies, you know, startups under $2 billion. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:33 Like, loads of them. Yeah. You know, I, I, I talked to them, you know, several times a week minimum. Yeah. In public, you know, until the bottleneck bros came along, until AI came along, there was not a lot happening in public small cap land. And by the way, on this, like, all these small caps, these bottom. Model X, this AI. It does feel a little weird to me that you can have like a large following on social media.
Starting point is 00:31:06 Post about, you know, buy stock in something. And then post about, you know, outline your thesis in a $35 million market cap company. It's synced it up like a thousand percent. And there's a lot of that going on. And by the way, this is not like a serenity comment. I think that guy's, that person is smart. But I mean, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's a lot of shady stuff happening. It feels like to be sure.
Starting point is 00:31:35 Well, yeah. And you look back at, uh, you know, you're a young, uh, young analysts at, at fidelity, right? During the, the, the doc, you know, the end of the, the dot com cycle. And there was a lot of just like, euphoria stuff happening. And in the years that followed, there was consequences, right? There, there were people ultimately had to, you. to face. Sometimes civil penalties, all sorts of different things.
Starting point is 00:32:00 Companies went bankrupt. There were all sorts of different, you know, perturbations in the market. And of course, we got a bunch of really enduring generational companies through that period, too. Although a lot of these accounts are anonymous, and I'm sure they're logged into social media with a made-up email.
Starting point is 00:32:17 Yeah. You know, called through a VPN. And so I don't, I don't know. It is different than a research, than a cell side research report that maybe goes a little bit too far, but there's still a whole compliance department around it. We are in, yeah, uncharted territory. So everyone needs to stay safe out there and do your own research, I suppose.
Starting point is 00:32:39 Yeah. Well, guys, man, this was super fun. This was great. Let's do it again soon. Thank you so much. Anytime. Let's get the whole team on too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Yeah. You know what? That's actually fun. Yeah, that'd be great. Let's do that with the whole team. That'd be amazing. That's awesome. I would love it.
Starting point is 00:32:54 Yeah. Yeah, you have a conference room with a nice wide angle camera. You can just have the whole crew there. That's great. A partner meeting. Let's do it. Awesome. Great to hang with you guys.
Starting point is 00:33:05 Have a great rest of you guys. Thank you so much for coming on. We'll talk to you soon.

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