hyperscaler

also referred to as: hyperscalers

11 statements across 9 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 22, 2024 by Brad Gerstner · across every show →

Everything said about hyperscaler, oldest first

Feb 22, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: GCC sovereign AI compute orders will rival hyperscalers
“And I think what people still don't appreciate is they're probably dozens of sovereigns who are trying to get into the NVIDIA order book, and that they view it as one of their top three national priorities to build out AI capabilities. And I think the size you…”
Brad Gerstner Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 57:58 BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner | NVDA, Chips, AI Compute Build Out, AI Impact on Big Tech | E03 · Bg2 Pod
Apr 29, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Gerstner: AI benefits concentrate in hyperscalers over smaller tech companies
“My hunch is, That the largest companies in technology, back to your network effects and your scale advantages, I'm not sure that smaller tech technology companies are seeing the benefits that the largest technology companies are. You know, so we'll see that as…”
Brad Gerstner Apr 29, 2024 ▶ 1:04:26 Ep8. AI Models, Data Scaling, Enterprise & Personal AI | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jul 25, 2024 negative
Opinion
Gerstner: Hyperscalers stopped M&A to fund buybacks, dividends, and Nvidia chips
“We've been in this period in Silicon Valley for four years where companies just stopped, like, they may have sent their M&A teams to the beach for all I know. There just has not been a lot of activity, certainly among the hyperscalers relative to what had exis…”
Brad Gerstner Jul 25, 2024 ▶ 59:55 Ep13. Silicon Valley’s Political 180, META AI, COVID Postmortem | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 25, 2024 bullish
Insight
Gurley: Hyperscaler buyers are 10x better for nuclear startups than utilities
“If the hyperscalers become part of the customer set for the nuclear startups, that may be like 10 X better than selling just to utilities alone. Like you may have brought innovators to the table. On the purchasing side that may be more open-minded, that may be…”
Bill Gurley Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 2:35 Ep16. Nuclear Update, AI Fast & Furious, State of VC | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 23, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Patel: Wall Street hyperscaler CapEx estimates are far too low
“I think when you look at the streets estimates for capex, they're all far too low.”
Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 36:37 AI Semiconductor Landscape feat. Dylan Patel | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 23, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patel: Hyperscalers represent 50% to 60% of AI chip revenue
“Roughly you can say hyperscalers are 50 ish percent of revenue, 50 to 60%, and the rest of it is Neo cloud slash sovereign AI.”
Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 1:23:16 AI Semiconductor Landscape feat. Dylan Patel | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Held up
Patel: Hyperscalers will significantly boost capex in 2025, lifting chip suppliers
“The plans for hyperscalers are pretty firm on, they're gonna spend a crap load more next year, right? And therefore, the ecosystem of networking players, of ASIC vendors, of systems vendors is gonna do well, whether it be NVIDIA or Marvell or Broadcom or AMD o…”
Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 1:21:20 AI Semiconductor Landscape feat. Dylan Patel | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jan 11, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: Meta charges hyperscalers licensing fees for Llama models
“Where he said they already charge license fees to the large hyperscalers to use Lama and to provide it to them in certain ways, etc. I think it's de minimis revenue in the scheme of Meta, but, you know, he's smart enough in that. Bill Gurley: I don't know. Bra…”
Brad Gerstner Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 25:01 Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Mar 21, 2025 neutral
Insight
Gurley: Negative-Margin Startups Subsidize Compute and Triple-Count AI Industry Revenue
“If those second layer and the third layer are both negative gross margin, the consumer's buying compute from the hyperscaler at a price that's lower than they would if they bought it directly because it's being subsidized by two players in the middle. And on t…”
Bill Gurley Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:14:58 NVDA GTC, M&A Wiz / Goog $32 B Deal, April 2 Tariff Uncertainty; Huawei Belt & Road; ChatGPT | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
Jun 20, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Philippe Laffont: Cloud computing could see a dozen hyperscalers emerge
“You could have a world with more like a dozen hyperscalers than like the two or three that we've had before.”
Philippe Laffont Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 26:07 Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: Hyperscalers have consistently underforecasted GPU demand for years
“Now what's, what's going on, of course, is that every one of their forecasts that they provide us, it turns out to have been wrong. Because they under forecasted, and so now we're always in a scramble mode, and so we've been in the scramble mode now for, you k…”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 24:35 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
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