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Morris: OpenAI and Anthropic Have Both Filed to Go Public
“OpenAI and Anthropic have both filed to go public next.”
Morris: Seat-based SaaS business model is broken by agentic AI
“This is a business model that's worked for 20 years, and the market is looking at this and saying the business model is broken, and it's broken by Open Claw in combination with AI and what Open Claw can do with AI.”
Kuno: Cryotherapy enables rheumatoid arthritis patients to stop immunosuppressive drugs
“So we have people as an example with rheumatoid arthritis, and many of them were on immunosuppressive agents. You've heard about Humira and all these advertised, right? They bring your immune system down to manage the overreaction that causes this joint proble…”
Kuno: Umbilical cord stem cells recognize cancer cells and trigger apoptosis
“Umbilical cord stem cells are from newborns, from healthy c-section births. It's the birth tissue that usually gets discarded. Now, these cells don't have a fingerprint. They become your own cells to some extent, but they also recognize cancer cells, and they …”
Muller: Photography Is Safe from AI Because Image Generation Requires Base Photos
“Fortunately, photography's not something that you're at risk, and here's, here's the why. To do AI and to make the cat swimming on the lake with Brad Pitt, you need those photos. You need a photo of a cat. You need a photo of the lake. You need a photo of Brad…”
Lane: Renovating kitchens and bathrooms yields lowest ROI in short-term rentals
“The lowest return renovating your kitchen, renovating your bathrooms. Like those are not going to return for a short-term rental.”
Morris: Institutional caps will thin competition for small single-family buyers
“With the new housing law pushing the mega funds out of single family buying, the small operators competition is about to thin out.”
Morris: The US Housing Market Will Not Crash in 2026
“Will the housing market crash in 2026? Short answer, no. The data says the opposite, and this week proved it.”
Morris: Fed Minutes Show Majority Open to Raising Rates
“The May meeting minutes revealed that the majority of Fed officials now see the possibility of raising rates if the war continues and if inflation persists as a result of it.”
Morris: SpaceX Lost Over $4B in the Previous Quarter
“SpaceX lost over four billion dollars last quarter.”
Morris: SpaceX Is Raising Capital to Build AI Data Centers
“SpaceX is raising this money partly to build AI data centers and infrastructure.”
Morris: Secondary residential markets will outperform primary markets over 10 years
“So, secondary markets will outperform primary markets in residential real estate over the next 10 years.”
Mike Lazerow: Timing Is the Only Factor Correlated with Venture Success
“Timing is number, like, in venture, it's the only thing that's correlated to success.”
Mike Lazerow: Tech Is No Longer a Moat, Attention Is
“Tech is no longer a competitive advantage. It is an enabler of other advantages. And so to me, the biggest You know, what it's all about is demand generation. So the next generation of great companies will be those who turn attention into demand at scale. And …”
Mike Lazerow: Etched's AI Chip Is 10x Faster Than Nvidia's
“They just announced, you know, they raised five hundred million at a five billion dollar valuation. Significant orders, because their stuff is 10 times faster than NVIDIA's fastest, fastest chip. Half the cost, half the energy.”
Paul Morris: Real Estate Information Asymmetry Is Legal Insider Trading
“In real estate insider trading is legal. Insider trading, meaning not doing anything to break a fiduciary duty, but insider trading, meaning I can learn more about the property than the market knows about the property. So therefore I have unfair information an…”
Morris: US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran, killing supreme leader
“February 28th, more than three weeks ago, the U.S. And Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. Operation Epic Fury. That's the actual US term for it. And they killed Iran's supreme leader and dozens of their senior military officials.”
Morris: The next 24 months are the decade's best real estate opportunity
“So, to say it plainly, I believe the next 18 to 24 months represent one of the best real estate buying windows we will see in this entire decade.”
Morris: ARM resets will trigger big discounts on distressed real estate
“The distressed assets are distressed because people bought them at a much lower interest rate. When that interest rate adjusts, it's going to become a, it's, when those interest rates adjust, the mortgages are going to go up to a rate that people cannot afford…”
Taylor: Investor Flight and Supply Shortages Drive SoCal Real Estate Values Up
“If our state is experiencing the most extreme housing crisis we have ever experienced because we don't add supply and all the investors are going elsewhere, what happens? Values go up. Occupancy goes up. You're in an unhealthy market. If you're just looking at…”
Dr. Jonas Kuno: Low-dose naltrexone improves cancer outcomes by reducing inflammation
“One of the latest things in cancer research, which was interesting, there is a Microinflammatory environment that cancer cells need to thrive. They don't need oxygen. They like a low oxygen environment and they like an inflammatory environment. And so they're …”
Dr. Kuno: Preclinical Studies Show Ivermectin Triggers Cancer Cell Apoptosis
“There's a combination of what is it? Mabendazole and ivermectin, for example. Couldn't say that word like three years ago, you know, but again, this was something that predates COVID. It's been studied to treat cancer. Has some good mechanism where triggers ap…”
Kuno Refuses to Prescribe GLP-1 Drugs Citing Long-Term Unknowns
“So we do use medications. I don't use GLP-I's. I mean, I'm a bit again, there's still some unknowns and long-term issues that I have with them, but we use traditional weight loss medications.”
Morris: Institutional Investors Own Over 25% of Atlanta Housing Stock
“All you have to do is look at certain concentrated areas, and you look at a place like Atlanta, where more than 25% of the housing stock is owned by large institutional investors.”
Fifield: Landlords Can Remove Affordable Housing Designations by Moving Children In
“You can also use the Ellis act. And if you have your children that are living in this building, you can take affordable housing and make it market rate housing.”
Fifield: Few women in real estate are willing to sign loans
“You don't find a lot of women. You know, in this business that are willing to sign the loan and take the risk.”
Morris: $1T of Maturing Commercial Debt in 2026 Creates Massive Investment Opportunities
“20, 26, one trillion dollars worth of debt is going to mature. One hundred and twenty billion of that was taking it. Yeah. And then, and that's going to create real problems and it's going to create amazing opportunities.”
Morris: Knowledge Boosts Real Estate Returns to 60-70% But Degrades Stock Returns
“However, a bit of knowledge In, in real estate or just aligning with somebody who has a lot of knowledge in real estate moves you from four and a half percent to conservatively, 60% or 70%. And that even a lot of knowledge moves you essentially from 10% backwa…”
Morris: Buyers who refuse to pay full agent commissions get worse deals
“If I'm not paying full commission, I'm not getting a good deal. Period. Full stop.”
David Bailey claims real estate prices have fallen to 2015 levels
“The last 10 years of appreciation as of today have been wiped out. We are back to prices that we haven't seen since 2015.”
David Bailey predicts California's economy will overtake Germany by 2026
“California next year will probably become the third largest economy, overtaking Germany.”
David Bailey claims San Francisco has 78 new AI-driven billionaires
“There are currently 78 new billionaires in the city of San Francisco, all as a result of AI.”
David Bailey opposes rent control generally but supports it for seniors
“I am not a proponent of rent control. I think it stifles, stifles development. It doesn't do what it's supposed to do. However, I am in favor of rent control for seniors, because I do not feel, based on increasing rents, that the elderly population should be, …”
O'Neill: California is withholding funds and suing cities defying RHNA mandates
“Now, the governor and the state are coming down on them, and they're not providing dollars, state dollars, to these municipalities if they don't update their arena update their housing elements. And they're in fact suing them in the court, the state AG, if the…”
O'Neill: California AB 130 exempts sub-85ft market-rate projects from CEQA
“They just passed an ordinance, I think it was last week, AB- one-thirty. AB- one-thirty gets rid of, removes CEQA completely. One does not even have to go through CEQA permitting or the CEQA clearance at all for projects that are market rate and under 85 feet …”
O'Neill: LA's Executive Directive 1 Enables Affordable Housing via Private Equity
“Executive director, order one in the city of Los Angeles for building a hundred percent affordable housing is magical. It's been through multiple iterations right now, but it's still a very, very Viable thing to build affordable housing, not with LIHTC or usin…”
Art stored in international freeports like Geneva avoids capital gains tax
“Artists considered immune from capital gains tax, okay? If you sell your shares in, in a stock, you're taxed. Sell your Picasso, untouchable. You go into another country, now you put it into Geneva into a Freeport, you're not taxed, and that's legit.”
Morris claims no losses across 25 years of real estate investing
“Having invested for more than 25 years and having never lost money in a real estate deal sounds absolutely incredible.”
Morris: Property buyers with resetting adjustable loans will get crushed in 2025
“People are in 20, 25 are going to get crushed. Here's why. They bought retail five years ago. Lots of properties. They may be on a 30 year payment plan, but the interest rate could adjust at five years or seven years. Yeah. As those come up, now interest rates…”
Morris: Buying in already-regulated rental markets offers certainty and supply-cap upside
“I would also argue that, that, that using that rule which is to go where it's all right, already regulated
Gives you more certainty rather than less certainty, and that's important.
And then also in that example, let's just say that they were allowing 10,000 h…”
Lane: Smart regulation is one of the best things for short-term rentals
“I think regulation is one of the best things that could happen to the industry, as long as it's sort of smart non-dechronian regulation, like we've seen in like New York or LA that essentially outlaw in, in all aspects.”
Lane: Restrictive short-term rental regulations risk harming local tourism economies
“Short-term rentals are very restrictive now in Lake Tahoe and that can have detrimental effects to the local economy if all of a sudden, I mean, it's, I mean, high net wealth individuals that just have their second homes there that they visit once or twice a y…”
Lane: Backyard string lights are the highest-ROI short-term rental addition
“Highest return thing? String lights in the backyard. It's gonna pay multiple time overs.”
Go: Up to 80% of joint venture deals fail from excessive closeness
“You have to be very, very careful who you invest with and do JVs with, because I'd say, 80% of the time, maybe 70% of the time, those deals go bad because you have too much, there's too much closeness for all the reasons we were talking about earlier.”
Morris: The Fed Will Not Cut Interest Rates in Near Future
“The Fed is not going to rescue your deal with a rate cut in the near future”
Morris: Current economic indicators do not point to a market crash
“So these risks are real and they deserve to be taken seriously, but they are not, in my opinion, pointing to a real estate Or total market crash.”