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AI threatens software's untouchable 30x multiples
The guest argued that the existential threat from AI to the software industry is not immediate functionality but the questioning of its historically resilient high valuation multiples.
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CONTESTED · 489 MENTIONS · 275 EPISODES · 53 SHOWS
1 AUG 2025 — 16 AUG 2026 · 2D AGO
344 SUPPORT · 5 CHALLENGE · 140 MENTIONED
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES: THE MARKETS · 2 MENTIONS
- 82 EPISODES NOT SHOWN
- FORWARD GUIDANCE · 3 MENTIONS
- AI bottleneck fuels metals and materials demand
- AI threatens software's untouchable 30x multiples · THIS IDEA
- Sell what AI is selling, buy its bottlenecks
52 EPISODES BETWEEN · 118 MENTIONS · 133 NOT KEPT
- 133 EPISODES NOT SHOWN
- WHAT BITCOIN DID · 4 MENTIONS
- REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
- WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT
- WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
- THE DIVIDEND CAFE
- THE OPTIONS INSIDER RADIO NETWORK · 2 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
- PROF G MARKETS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 7 MENTIONS
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 4 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- WHAT BITCOIN DID
- THE POMP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES · 5 MENTIONS
- THE OPTIONS INSIDER RADIO NETWORK
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 3 MENTIONS
- EXCESS RETURNS · 4 MENTIONS
- MACROVOICES · 2 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- THE DERIVATIVE
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES: THE MARKETS · 4 MENTIONS
- FORWARD GUIDANCE · 4 MENTIONS
- PROF G MARKETS · 10 MENTIONS
- AI unit economics lack economies of scale
- Crossholdings compromise Big Tech valuation metrics
- Scalable AI is low-margin, mass market
- AI market anxiety not permanently priced in
- Big Tech's shift to capital-intensive manufacturing
- Mag 7 insulated by strong balance sheets
- Lesser AI companies face debt-driven failure
- Leasing compute signals AI demand overestimation
- China's low-cost LLMs as a disruptive threat
- Parallels to dot-com bubble correction
- THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- BARRON'S STREETWISE
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY · 5 MENTIONS
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG · 2 MENTIONS
- THE POMP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
- EURODOLLAR UNIVERSITY
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 3 MENTIONS
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
- PROF G MARKETS · 4 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY · 3 MENTIONS
- THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW · 3 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 2 MENTIONS
- EXCESS RETURNS · 6 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 2 MENTIONS
- THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS
- TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED · 4 MENTIONS
- ANIMAL SPIRITS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 2 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- MASTERS IN BUSINESS
- PLANET MICROCAP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
- THE POMP PODCAST
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY · 6 MENTIONS
HOW THE SHOWS HAVE DISCUSSED THIS THESIS OVER TIME · NOT A PERFORMANCE RECORD