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Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Nvidia partnering with Goldman and BlackRock for $500B financing
“NVIDIA is partnering with Goldman, BlackRock, and others to raise five hundred billion in AI compute.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 58:18 Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
Assertion Partly supported
Cuban commissioned Goldman Sachs index to short-hedge his Yahoo stock
“I had Goldman Sachs create an index of internet stocks that I thought sucked. And then I shorted that index because we, and we had to follow all the laws and I just had to have that short in place until I was able to do a real caller in the market on my Yahoo …”
Mark Cuban Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 7:26 Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
Assertion Contradicted
Palihapitiya: Goldman Sachs CEOs historically had direct pipeline to Treasury Secretary
“Goldman Sachs had a direct line to become treasury secretary. If you were the CEO of Goldman, you were the treasury secretary.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 40:11 Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
Assertion Partly supported
Calacanis: Stripe seeking $2.3B by Q1 2023 at $55B valuation
“According to a leaked pitch deck Stripe implied they needed 2.3 billion in capital by the end of Q on 2023. They're working with Goldman Sachs to raise a few billion at a fifty five billion dollar valuation. That's down 42% from the peak of ninety five billion…”
Jason Calacanis Feb 24, 2023 ▶ 2:57 E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: Goldman Sachs raised PCE forecast to 2.9% and cut GDP
“Goldman Sachs is out today with some analysis where they updated kind of the economic knock-on effects, right? So they raised their PCE Inflation forecast from 2.1 to 2.9, right, for the year. So that's a huge jump, right, in terms of their expected, you know,…”
Brad Gerstner Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 6:27 Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
Assertion Supported
Sacks: European natural gas prices hit 10 times the ten-year average
“The price of natural gas in Europe It used to just be 20 euros per megawatt hour. It's now above 200 per megawatt hour. So we're at 10 times the ten-year average in the market, and winter isn't even here.”
David Sacks Sep 10, 2022 ▶ 26:44 E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
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