What podcasts say about Asa Fitch
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What Asa Fitch has said on podcasts
20 statements · 8 positive · 9 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral
CoreWeave is possibly the largest neocloud renting computing power for AI users.
“CoreWeave what it is today, which is possibly the largest of these so-called neoclouds, companies that rent out computing power for people who want to do AI.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 4:00
CoreWeave rents computing power to AI labs including Anthropic.
“CoreWeave rents out that compute or computing power, as those who have discerning grammatical taste might say. AI labs like Anthropic, which just filed for its IPO.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 4:24
Demand for AI computing power has not clearly declined.
“there hasn't really been a clear ebbing of demand for computing power for AI.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 5:27
CoreWeave is heavily dependent on NVIDIA.
“it's heavily dependent on NVIDIA”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 6:16
CoreWeave’s delayed-draw loans are relatively secure.
“those loans are like really if you really stand back and look at it they're quite secure”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 7:50
CoreWeave is heavily indebted, with debt-to-equity around eight to ten times.
“this company is heavily indebted. Like if you look at the debt to equity ratio, it's like, I don't know, it's like depending on which data source you look at, it's like eight or 10 times.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 8:24
Meta’s debt-to-equity ratio is below one times, around 36%.
“they're at like, I don't know, 36% or, you know, it's like, it's less than one times. on that ratio.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 8:46
NVIDIA needs CoreWeave as an important customer outlet.
“NVIDIA needs CoreWeave”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 9:23
NVIDIA’s gross margin exceeds 70%.
“Nvidia has a gross margin of greater than 70%.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 9:46
Large NVIDIA customers should develop their own AI chips to reduce costs.
“You'd be insane not to try to develop your own chips and save some money”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 9:57
Higher capital costs will make the future more difficult for CoreWeave-like companies.
“the future is going to look more difficult for a core weave the core weeds of the world”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 12:21
Inability to finance expansion could threaten neocloud business survival.
“if they can't do that or if it costs too much to do that you know it's really it's kind of a death knell for the business”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 13:05
CoreWeave and Nebius lack substantial business diversification beyond AI computing.
“CoreWeave doesn't really, basically. So and Nebius is the same way.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 16:15
Many neoclouds could fail, consolidate, or be acquired.
“It wouldn't be hard to see a future where a lot of these guys went out of business or were just consolidated or rolled into other. businesses”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 16:27
Some neocloud business models may fail while their assets are acquired by better operators.
“some of the neoclouds their business models just don't really work out but Their assets are taken over by others who can manage them more effectively.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 17:57
Many AI companies will continue to possess valuable assets.
“a lot of these companies were, you know, are doing pretty well and in the end, and will continue to have assets that have value.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 20:01
Google TPUs may be less fungible than other AI chips.
“those chips may or may not be as fungible, if you will, as other ones”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 21:19
Cloud providers compete through their software capabilities.
“in reality there is a um there's a competition between these companies on the software level”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 23:09
Recent AI-market weakness does not indicate an immediate AI bust.
“there's nothing fundamentally here that says the AI boom is turning to a bust today”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 26:48
AI investment has not yet produced commensurate returns.
“There's no real commensurate amount of returns coming in.”
Open the episode · Tech Stocks and AI Bonds Are Tumbling. Is the AI Trade in Trouble?Listen at 27:34
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