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Welcome back, besties! Look, FactSet says sixty-eight percent of the S&P five hundred mentioned AI on earnings calls this quarter. Literally every dog grooming app is now an 'Autonomous Canine Workflow Engine.' [laughs] Chamath, are we just running the March 2000 playbook with higher electricity bills?

Look, Jason, it's structurally inevitable. [sighs] I told everyone on this pod eighteen months ago: Sequoia published that six-hundred-billion-dollar revenue gap analysis, and the market collective broke. If you are a horizontal SaaS company trading at six times ARR, you rebrand as an LLM wrapper overnight or your cost of capital goes to infinity. It's that simple.

Let's be intellectually honest here. [deadpan] In 2000, Cisco peaked at five hundred fifty-five billion selling routers to companies whose only asset was a neon sock puppet. Today, ninety percent of Y Combinator is just college dropouts paying three dollars an hour to cloud providers so an agent can summarize an email nobody wanted to read in the first place.

[interrupting] But David! They're reopening Three Mile Island! We are literally resurrecting decommissioned nuclear reactors just so an enterprise HR dashboard can generate passive-aggressive performance reviews! [chuckles] Isn't that peak sovereign abundance?

Hold on, hold on. Can I finish the point? [scoffs] The trade isn't the power plant, Jason. The trade is whoever is shorting the second-tier cloud balance sheets when the depreciation cycle hits in twenty-six.

We're way off. Science corner, save us. Friedegg, explain the thermodynamic reality of our venture bubble.

Well, guys, if you look at biological evolution over four billion years, single-celled organisms spent three gigayears optimizing metabolic ATP efficiency before multicell specialization emerged. What we are doing right now is dumping two gigawatts of fission energy into matrix multiplication to calculate the optimal click-through rate for orthopedic shoes. Thermodynamically, it's just accelerated entropy disguised as enterprise SaaS.

And the subscription is forty-nine dollars a seat. [deadpan]

[laughs] With an annual upfront discount!

Okay, let's go around the horn — back to the actual question. The bottom line is this: the six hundred billion CapEx overhang will wash out the posers, the infrastructure will be bought for pennies on the dollar, and the real allocators will own the foundational stack of the next century. I'm completely fine with it.

Translation: Chamath is already raising a distressed debt vehicle for GPU clusters. [deadpan]

And that is our show! See you next week, besties! [laughs]