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Brad Gerstner
Altimeter Capital
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Where they stand
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Stated house position; he is an investor in both labs
“altimeter would be a buyer at scale and that size in both of those IPOs at three trillion.”
On an OpenAI IPO above $1 trillion
“So can they get out at over a trillion on that type of revenue growth being one of the two frontier premier labs? I think the answer to that is yes.”
Direct rebuttal to Chamath's zero-to-2% ROI math
“I think there probably isn't direct ROI, Chamath, to your point, but I think we're so early, nobody cares.”
Nasdaq since this was said: ▼ -0.8% · 26,282 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
His stated non-consensus view
“So I think there's a chance that over the course of the next two to three years, as we take on much more complex agentic tasks, that the distance between the frontier and everybody else doesn't converge, it actually extends”
Founder of the initiative, talking his own program
“We told the president we think we can raise $100 billion in the first 12 months.”
Caveats Treasury/White House/Social Security process on tape
“We are intention is to get all 50 to 70 million accounts created over the course of the next 90 days using all of this data.”
“Every child born… will get an investment account at birth, seeded with $1,000 in the S&P 500” - Trump Accounts live Jul 4; champions broad ownership
S&P 500 since this was said: ▲ +1.4% · 7,483 → 7,592 · as of 2026-09-10
Gerstner relays Jensen Huang's earlier BG2 answer as the premise for asking Altman and Nadella if they agree; Nadella redirects to power constraints ('the biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it's a power' @18:26) and Altman gives his glut-for-sure answer. Indirect speech, not a verbatim Huang quote on this tape.
“I asked Jensen on this pod, if there was any chance over the course of the next five years, we would have a compute glut. And he said it's virtually non-existent chance in the next two to three years.”
Nasdaq since this was said: ▲ +10.6% · 23,581 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Follows his own framing that companies 'grow their bottom line, their number of employees slower than their top line' as the productivity gain, with the consumer surplus reinvested 'in creating a lot of things that didn't exist before.' @69:29. Said after noting the recent 'spate of layoffs' including Amazon's.
“And again, I certainly am an optimist. I think we're going to have net job gains from all of this.”
Opens the show with 'The GDP is tracking near 4%.' @1:58; closes citing ~$4T of hyperscaler capex ('about ten times the size of the Manhattan Project' adjusted), trillions in foreign investment pledges including South Korea's $350B 'just today', and 'a level of coordination going on between Washington and Silicon Valley... that gives me cause for incredible hope.' @73:42.
“You can see 4 percent GDP growth on the horizon. We'll have our challenges. We'll have our ups and downs. These tend to be stairs, you know, stairs up rather than aligned straight up and to the right.”
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