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30-Year Debt on Software Giants is Highly Risky Due to Tech Disruption
“Am I worried about four-year paper in most of the software names? Probably not. I mean, they're contracted out. This is not a four-year issue. That, that paper should be money good. Would I be worried about holding 30 year credit on, on, on, on ... On Salesfor…”
Vlad Barbalat Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 56:35 Investing a $120 Billion Balance Sheet with No Outside Investors · Invest Like The Best
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Patel: Oracle Signed a $300 Billion Deal With OpenAI
“Because, you know, he signed a three hundred billion dollar deal with OpenAI, it's like.”
Dylan Patel Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 5:35 Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
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Gurley: Startups initially built on Sun and Oracle, but none did five years later
“The first two years, everyone built on sun and Oracle, everyone, all the startups did and. Five, six years in, no one did.”
Bill Gurley Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 1:01:28 The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private with Bill Gurley · Invest Like The Best
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Patel: Amazon took 20 years to migrate off Oracle databases
“Amazon leading Oracle took fucking 20 years, right, and they wanted to do it 20 years ago, And they have, their highest revenue products after EC-II were like, the next four were like, database products at AWS, and yet they still freaking used Oracle's databas…”
Dylan Patel Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 1:21:23 Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
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